Word: sorel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cover: Grease pencil and watercolor by Edward Sorel. Caricaturist Sorel's first cover for TIME on the leading candidate for mayor of New York City gives him one more opportunity to indulge a favorite pastime: "Making faces at some sacred cows." Earlier targets of his pointed pen have included Billy Graham, Cardinal Spellman, Lyndon B. Johnson, President Nixon and Frank Sinatra. Sorel's depiction of New York mayors past, present and possibly future is derived from Eugène Delacroix's painting of Liberty Leading the People. On the left, gazing up at Procaccino, is Mayor John...
...issue's visual problems are much easier to pinpoint than the literary ones. The drawings of David McClelland and James Rivaldo are gone, and they are a sore loss. Sam Vandam's caricature of Mayor Daley is properly Sorel-like, and his cartoons pop up throughout the issue, but it will be a while before he can match the bizarre beasties that crawled over McClelland's pages...
...Sorel is at his acid best with subjects he actively disdains or dislikes. "Caricaturing," he explains, "is essentially therapy for me. It's a way of taking away the feeling of impotence one has about a situation." In their vitriol, Sorel's pen-and-ink drawings lean somewhat on Levine. But in their artistic style -the absurd settings, the disproportionate figures-they trace back much more directly to Sir John Tenniel, the Victorian artist who illustrated Alice's Adventures in Wonderland...
...Sorel's fees now run as high as $1,700 for a two-page spread, but he has begun to brood again. Monthly magazines, he complains, have prepublication time lags that can damage a topical caricaturist. An Esquire article on Robert Kennedy, illustrated by Sorel, appeared after the Senator's death. "It looked," says Sorel, "like nothing but bad taste...
...Still, Sorel does not intend to stop doing what appeals to him artistically, emotionally or financially. "As a caricaturist," he says, "I have a chance to make faces at some sacred cows." Now that he is established, however, he would like to make the faces in a weekly satirical newspaper...