It was a thoroughly wooden school of caricature, in which one can find no trace of the splendid suggestion which the caricaturists should at that time have been drawing from contemporary masters of the art in France and England.
There are interest and significance in the fact that a majority of the ablest caricaturists of to-day are devoting their talents almost exclusively to the daily press.
His capacity for cunning and unscrupulousness was yet to be learned; but a feeling of distrust was already in the air, and the caricaturists were quick to reflect it.
It would be a mistake to enroll in the hirsute cohort of caricaturists these witty and charming artists, who were more concerned in depicting the pleasures of mundane life than in castigating its vices and irregularities.
From the rich material offered by our War of Secession the caricaturists drew little more than the long, gaunt figure and the scraggy beard of Lincoln, and the cigar of General Grant.
But such times were exceptional, and the older caricaturists were obliged to let pass many interesting crises because the situations would have become already stale before the day of publication of the monthly magazines came round.
In the comprehensive and ill-assorted Coalition ministry which was formed soon after Pitt's death, the caricaturists found a congenial topic for their pencils.
Again, in this respect caricature varies much, because all the great men of the century did not offer to the caricaturists the same opportunities in the matter of unusual features or personal eccentricities.
For ten years thecaricaturists played with this theme.
Probably the classic regularity of Napoleon's countenance discouraged the caricaturists from attempting his likeness.
I know, has the greatest admiration for most of Pellegrini's work, but thinks that 'Ape' certainly had the failing common to all Italian caricaturists of being cruel rather than funny.
Caricaturists are after all but clowns of the pencil.
Of course, I am not referring to mere tinting, such as that in which the old caricaturists had their drawings reproduced, but to colouring in oils, after the manner of the great satirist Hogarth.
Among the most activecaricaturists of the beginning of the present century we must not overlook Isaac Cruikshank, even if it were only because the name has become so celebrated in that of his more talented son.
Galas was rather remarkable for obesity, and the French caricaturists of the day made this circumstance a subject for their satire.
From this time the names of the caricaturists are better known, and we shall have to consider them in their individual characters.
But also some of the best caricaturists of the day published much anonymously, and we know that this was the case to a very great extent with such artists as Cruikshank, Woodward, &c.
In the year 1757 was born the greatest of English caricaturists, and perhaps of all caricaturists of modern times whose works are known--James Gillray.
Some of these were probably the works of amateurs, for there appear to have been many amateurcaricaturists in England at that time.
He is the last representative of the great school of caricaturists formed during the reign of George III.
In this respect the satirists of the Church went hand in hand with the pictorial caricaturists of the illuminated manuscripts, and of the sculptures with which we sometimes meet in contemporary architectural ornamentation.
And his disciples were indeed not caricaturists at all, but addressed themselves solely to a delicately poetic representation of subjects.
Graham Everitt: English Caricaturistsand Graphic Humorists of the Nineteenth Century.
What at first constituted the originality of English caricaturists was their mordant satire.
The draughtsmen and caricaturists the first who brought modern life into the sphere of art.
It is the frequent habit of French caricaturists to employ a nom-de-guerre.
Life, and other comic papers, including for many years Truth, also brought forward caricaturists of distinct worth and a marked tendency to specialization.
Busch stands alone among thecaricaturists of his nation, inasmuch as he is both the author and the illustrator of these works, his witty doggerel supplying Germany with household words.
By this illustration the native ferocity of the eighteenth-century caricaturists is glaringly exemplified.
Then, too, the Caricaturists took up the tale and worked their wicked will upon the theme.
While this Ministry was in existence, it afforded the Caricaturists plenty of food for their pencils.
The stronger caricaturists have, in a sense, fallen back on the medieval devil; not because he is more mystical, but because he is more material.
I, for one, believe that if our caricaturists do not hate their enemies, it is not because they are too big to hate them, but because their enemies are not big enough to hate.
The English caricaturistsalways assumed that a Frenchman could not ride to hounds or enjoy English hunting.
Cartoonists and caricaturists had a time of rare enjoyment, and let their pencils run riot.
Yet those caricaturists in their natural delight in coming upon so striking a face, have somewhat misrepresented it, making it merely Satanic; whereas its actual expression has quite as much benevolence as mockery.
A monstrous regiment of caricaturists were painting themselves into fame by fantastic and ferocious presentations of the man who was so fiercely hated because he was so greatly dreaded.
Belly's cherished scheme, which naturally supplied the caricaturists of the time with more or less brilliant ideas.
But the caricaturistswere not merely concerned with the fallen dynasty.
The caricaturists pursued Laud and Strafford even to the scaffold.
The first effort of the caricaturists in Paris after the Restoration was simply to place the figure of a weather-cock after the names of public men who had shown particular alacrity in changing their politics with the changing dynasties.
The Dutch caricaturists recurred very often to the windy character of the share business.
Of the pictures reflecting upon Lord Bute and the Princess of Wales nothing need be said except that they are such as might be expected from the caricaturists of that age.
But the caricaturists were not soon weary of the theme.
Could comic artists and caricaturists be wanting in Athens?
Nothing is sacred to these savage caricaturists of the French school.
Many caricaturists who afterward attained celebrity were early contributors to M.
Since Titian's day, parodies of the Laocooen have been among the stock devices of the caricaturists of all nations.
With this specimen of blague we may leave the caricaturists of France to fight it out with La Censure.
As long as he lived the caricaturists continued to assail him; and when he died, in 1715, he left behind him a France so demoralized and impoverished that he still kept the satirists busy.
But peace and plenty did not come to the poor man's cottage, and the caricaturists began to mock his dream of a better day.
It is upon this most sacred of all institutions that the French caricaturists of the Gavarni school pour ceaseless scorn and contempt.
No hard-and-fast distinction is made here between the dessinateurs who are primarily caricaturistsand those who are not.
And it is this latter thing that the great body of contemporary French caricaturists are attempting to do.
Our friends the caricaturists were fully alive to these puerilities.
The caricaturists take us into the garrets of these fellows, abodes of squalor and wretchedness, and show us that beneath their exterior magnificence there is nothing, or next to nothing.
At last we have a treatise upon our caricaturists and comic draughtsmen worthy of the great subject.
The caricaturistssaw simply a polygamist eager to convict of adultery the wife whom he disliked and avoided, and a spendthrift whose debt was inflicted upon the nation.
The political caricaturists got hold of it, and used it as a stick to beat the pensionary of Lord Bute; the critics employed it to continue their assaults on the precepts of the 'Analysis.
In these days, there is scarcely a statesman whose photograph cannot be seen in the London shop-windows, to the great advantage of the political caricaturists of to-day.
The caricaturists soon pounced upon the subject, and the way in which the news of the victory was taken by different statesmen is very amusingly shown.
It is a marvel that none of the English caricaturists ever depicted this portion of his life.
The debt of the humourists and public caricaturists who have lived and flourished (aye, flourished as poor George never did) on the crumbs of his Rabalaisian banquet of humour, is immeasurable.
Our earliest caricaturists came over to us from the French and Dutch schools; and they flourished (albeit their names are forgotten now) until the genius of Hogarth rose, and founded a British school of caricature, racy of the soil.
The public prints satirized these servile expressions, manufactured to order, while the wits and caricaturists mercilessly exposed the modus operandi of fabricating these illegitimate addresses.
It will be seen that nearly all these early caricaturistsseem disinterested, as their subjects oppose the dispensers of patronage.
Elections happily brought both food and occupation to the caricaturists and satirists, as it has been shown.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "caricaturists" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
