Curators:

1. Constance C. McPhee, Associate Curator

2. Nadine M. Orenstein

Robin LiProfessor D’ Augustine

Infinite Jest

Theme: Visual Humor 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

Caricature and SatireCaricature- a picture

exaggerating the peculiarities of people or things

Distorts human physical characteristics

Satire- the use of irony or sarcasm in exposing or deriding folly, etc.

Mocks lust, greed, fashion, and vanity

Section 1: (Caricature)Exaggeration and Grotesque

Head of Man in Profile

By: Leonardo da Vinci

• Black-chalk sketch

Section 2: (Caricature)Extreme Physiques

Well, hello

By: Anonymous artist

• Geometrical opposites

• Mismatched friends

Caricature of Painter

Section 3: (Caricature)People as Objects

The Bush Years

By: Anonymous Artist

• Tumbling stock market

Section 4: (Satire) Social Satire

Crowds

The Pit Door (1800’s)

By: Robert Dighton

Pidgeon Hole By: Rowlandson

Eat and Gambling

Dinners Drest in the neatest Manner

By: Rowlandson

• Mystery of what takes place behind kitchen door

Entry and Exit By: Charlet

Fashion

6 Stages of Mending a Face

By: Rowlandson

• Mocks lady in pursuit of youth and beauty

• Sacrifice health for vanity

Political Satire

The Political Piñata By: Mendez

The Plumb-Pudding in Danger

By: James Gillray

• Napoleon (right) and Prime Minister William Pitt (left)

• During Napoleonic War, 1803-1815

Conclusion• Humor is a very important aspect of art

• Caricature and satire started during the Renaissance

• Still influences the world or art today