Word: caricaturists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...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...