Caricature carving
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A caricature carving is a humorous wood carving that exaggerates or distorts the basic essence of a person or thing to create an easily identifiable visual likeness.
Although caricatures can be made of inanimate objects such as cars or buildings, the art form is usually reserved for illustrations of people, especially celebrities and politicians.
Caricatures can be insulting or complimentary and can serve a political purpose or be carved solely for entertainment.
The word "caricature" can also apply to a person or thing that displays behavior or mannerisms that are ridiculously exaggerated and overly stereotypical.
An early definition of the origins of 'caricature', an Italian word meaning 'to load', occurs in the English doctor Sir Thomas Browne's Christian Morals (first published in 1716)
- Expose not thy self by four-footed manners unto monstrous draughts, and Caricatura representations.
with the footnote:
- When Men's faces are drawn with resemblance to some other Animals, the Italians call it, to be drawn in Caricatura
