WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A CARTOON AND A CARICATURE? Cartoons are usually artistic renderings of fictional characters. Cartoons were generally considered to be first published as part of a comic strip in the 19th century by the Swiss artist Rodolphe Topffer (1799–1846) in an attempt to create a new […]
WHAT IS A CARICATURE? A caricature is an artistic rendering of a real person or animal which distorts or exaggerates certain features, but still maintains a likeness: in other words an exaggerated piece of portrait or figurative art. Caricatures first became a very popular genre of fine art in the 16th and 17th century and […]
Caricature As An Art Form Keith Van Douglas developed a talent as a caricaturist at a very young age. Over Keith’s lengthy and prolific career as a caricaturist Keith has composed caricature portraits of at least 300,000 individuals. Here is a brief history of the origin of caricatures as an […]