Concept in Definition ABC

The caricature is a portrait that exaggerates and distorts the physical aspects of a person for a humorous purpose, although and to a lesser extent, also, the task or activity that a person performs can be the object of the cartoon. For example, if it is an athlete, many cartoonists, in addition to exaggerating physical features of this, they usually add some element or present it in the context by which it became a character recognized.

The technique which the caricature uses will then be enlarge those most salient features of a person (lips, eyes, nose, sideburns, hair) and exaggerate them to the maximum to cause humor or the representation of some defect moral.

While we mention the sport, the world of politics or rather, more precisely, the members of that world are the ones that have received the most caricatures throughout the history of the world. The physical characteristics, decisions, behaviors and manners of a politician are the ones that have most often been subject to the caricature of graphic comedians, generally from newspapers. For example, a case that serves to represent what I am telling you is that of former Argentine president Fernando De la Rúa, who due to his known slowness and warmth at the time of the

decision makingMany times, during his tenure, he was represented by Argentine cartoonists with extreme features of his face and with the body of a turtle, in clear allusion and reference to that slowness.

But not everything is reduced to people with an important presence in political life, because as we said well, athletes and other aspects such as situations, institutions Political, social and religious groups and social classes have been caricature meat as well.

In the latter case that we mentioned in the paragraph above and in some others that merited it, the cartoon, many times, in addition to its clear comic purpose, was more than anything encouraged by the latter, by the need to induce a social change or political, since sometimes humor, protected by that comic end, manages to tell many more truths, even tougher even, because it has broader backs than any political or political column can support. editorial from a diary.

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