10 Caricatures That Changed the World History [part 1]

Who doesn't know caricature? Caricature is part of the illustration that is most easily enjoyed because it contains satire elements, funny and provocative. Caricature itself creates characters that are made redundant or otherwise made minimalist in order to make it interesting and highlight the character of the objects and messages to be conveyed.

Caricature can be just entertainment or seriously become a powerful medium to talk to the bureaucracy. In these serious matters, caricatures are most prevalent in the mass media for conveying messages and moral criticism in politics. Apparently, the caricature artists figures also contributed to change the history of the world through their brilliant strokes. Who are they and what are their phenomenal caricatures? Let's check this out...

1. James Gillray

James Gillray made a caricature that upset Napoleon Bonaparte and make Bonaparte says "Gillray has done greater than all the troops in Europe to knock me down." This is an example of Gillray's caricature that made him change the history of "Manic ravings, or Little Boney in a Strong Fit" (1803).

_{Image : James Gillray Caricature}

2. Honore Daumier

In 1832, two years after the king Louis Philippe was popularly eliminating censorship of the media in France, Honore Daumier made a caricature of Louise Philippe described as a Pear with the title Gargantua. Daumier, the publisher and his press were charged under articles spreading hatred and humiliation to the royal government and also the charge of attacking the king's personality. For this case, only Daumier should be in jail.

_{Image : Gargantua by Honore Daumier}

3. Thomas Nast

Nast caricature that depicting Willian Tweed, the famous American politician of the 19th century, has made the politician and his cronies called "The Tammany Hall" has fall. Tweed's famous words about Nast is: "I don't care about all the articles that attacked me in the newspapers, my constituents can't read, but they understand the exact meaning of the fu***ng picture (caricature)".

_{Image : Thomas Nast Caricature}

4 & 5. Art Young and Robert Minor

Young and Minor are two artists whose work appears regularly in Masses magazine. In August 1917, the Post Office revoked Masses' special correspondence. Masses magazines were brought to court twice, editors (including cartoonists) were accused of "conspiring to block conscription." Although Young and Minor are not subject to imprisonment, the magazine gets a legal decision not to publish.

_{Image : Art Young's "Jesus Christ Wanted" Caricature}

_{Image : The Perfect Soldier by Robert Minor}

to be continued to part 2

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