1. Robin Li
Professor D’ Augustine
Curators:
1. Constance C. McPhee, Associate Curator
2. Nadine M. Orenstein

2.  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

3.  Caricature- a picture  Satire- the use of ironyor
exaggerating the sarcasm in exposing or
peculiarities of people or deriding folly, etc.
things
 Mocks lust, greed, fashion,
 Distorts human physical and vanity
characteristics

4. Section 1: (Caricature)
Exaggeration and Grotesque

5. Head of Man in
Profile
By: Leonardo da Vinci
• Black-chalk sketch

6. Section 2: (Caricature)
Extreme Physiques

7. Well, hello
By: Anonymous artist
• Geometrical opposites
• Mismatched friends

8. Caricature of Painter

9. Section 3: (Caricature)
People as Objects

10. The Bush Years
By: Anonymous Artist
• Tumbling stock market

11. Section 4: (Satire)
Social Satire

13. The Pit Door (1800’s)
By: Robert Dighton

14. Pidgeon Hole By: Rowlandson

16. Dinners Drest in
the neatest
Manner
By: Rowlandson
• Mystery of what takes place
behind kitchen door

17. Entry and Exit By: Charlet

19. 6 Stages of
Mending a Face
By: Rowlandson
• Mocks lady in pursuit of youth
and beauty
• Sacrifice health for vanity

21. The Political Piñata By: Mendez

22. The Plumb-
Pudding in
Danger
By: James Gillray
• Napoleon (right) and Prime
Minister William Pitt (left)
• During Napoleonic War, 1803-
1815

23. • Humor is a very important aspect of art
• Caricature and satire started during the Renaissance
• Still influences the world or art today