Word: caricaturist
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...Holograms" or"Thundercats," but you can still get your cartoonfix at Harvard. Except here they are calledcaricatures. "Drawings by Al Hirschfeld,"which closes tomorrow, features more than 60original theatrical drawings by the 95-year oldNew York Times caricaturist from the Melvin R.Seiden Collection in the Harvard TheatreCollection. It's truly, truly, truly outrageous.9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Pusey Library, SheldonExhibition Rooms, Harvard Yard, 495-4387.FREE...
...mode of representation in which objects are viewed as though through a crystal. His images, especially in "Bird Cloud" (1926), appear refracted. Rather than showing various perspectives at once as the Cubists attempted to do, Feininger merely wanted to accentuate and flatten light planes, exaggerating them like a caricaturist would and rendering each with a different solid block of color before reassembling the pieces...
...French artist Honore Daumier (1808-1879) is the cartoonist's god, though of course he is much more than that. It's impossible to think of an outstanding 20th century caricaturist, from David Low to Ronald Searle and David Levine, who doesn't owe something fundamental to him. Most people know him only through his prints, those distillations of vengeance in which, through a long career, Daumier impaled the dignitaries of bourgeois France on his lithographic crayon. No greater visual satirist ever lived; none, one may be fairly sure, ever will...
...caricaturist's task exactly the same as the classical artist's?" asked Annibale Carraci, widely considered the first caricaturist. "Both see the lasting truth beneath the surface of outward appearance...A good caricature, like every work of art, is more true to life than reality itself...
...York City and Philadelphia, churning out likenesses of glassy-eyed sitters who looked as though they had been whacked with a board. But it was in England and France that photography took on the character of an art in the work of men like the Parisian caricaturist Nadar, who brought a warm-blooded gravity to camera portraiture...