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Curators:
1. Constance C. McPhee, Associate Curator
2. Nadine M. Orenstein
Robin LiProfessor D’ Augustine
Infinite Jest
Theme: Visual Humor Genres of art intended to make fun of people
Exaggerate to point of ridiculous
Motives for mockery: political, moral, psychological, social
Difficult to interpret picture b/c of different time period
Caricature and SatireCaricature- a picture
exaggerating the peculiarities of people or things
Distorts human physical characteristics
Satire- the use of irony or sarcasm in exposing or deriding folly, etc.
Mocks lust, greed, fashion, and vanity
Section 1: (Caricature)Exaggeration and Grotesque
Head of Man in Profile
By: Leonardo da Vinci
• Black-chalk sketch
Section 2: (Caricature)Extreme Physiques
Well, hello
By: Anonymous artist
• Geometrical opposites
• Mismatched friends
Caricature of Painter
Section 3: (Caricature)People as Objects
The Bush Years
By: Anonymous Artist
• Tumbling stock market
Section 4: (Satire) Social Satire
Crowds
The Pit Door (1800’s)
By: Robert Dighton
Pidgeon Hole By: Rowlandson
Eat and Gambling
Dinners Drest in the neatest Manner
By: Rowlandson
• Mystery of what takes place behind kitchen door
Entry and Exit By: Charlet
Fashion
6 Stages of Mending a Face
By: Rowlandson
• Mocks lady in pursuit of youth and beauty
• Sacrifice health for vanity
Political Satire
The Political Piñata By: Mendez
The Plumb-Pudding in Danger
By: James Gillray
• Napoleon (right) and Prime Minister William Pitt (left)
• During Napoleonic War, 1803-1815
Conclusion• Humor is a very important aspect of art
• Caricature and satire started during the Renaissance
• Still influences the world or art today