ART OF CARICATURE.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20171, 25 February 1931, Page 3

ART OF CARICATURE.

WifynLy. -• ; t ' « '* t> 4 , nu", " ; " /i fi MR D. LO.W Al! THE AUTHOfefi* ■ V"/.;cmjb. ! ,-j ~ CP&aFpjkftf* coMasnwosm) " V' 1 ' ?fl ftrfravid Low was the chief guest al tho, fortnightly dinnetof tti* AutW>»' humorously put it, he sot himself to > argoa D4&in« i * , ' AT had, *rtten; ■ to»day, he /safcfy jk.M»4 of and the -Vennifti tradi->. tioiu "It'is,"he* add, "aa U BHtaaais h!ad marked Ally J pebble the yii>td> JMeaaii» drawifigs qjf- tolraonß with long nowsn, distorted features/ bifr feet, and so on But tm,yr*%m rewiy ; mefce pervofSion of form W M ratulr childisfrwheft it was not aecompanind by some psychological background., Caricature is i not - aecesawfty humorous. . Sometimes it has wit/ and sometimes it infuriate ' Hofeatth, said Mr Low, coaid notAo eaiiod i carie&Mtfst. .*»d, iftdebftvbev - cam* yfaf indignant if hewere jo i&ribedftHe wad ft satirical Mtißtk ■'but of the very heavyfschool. "HtL did .Mv * use the rapier-so nHtth/tw the taak.'** • If Hbgartfa lived to-day he would be,* called A cartoonist, "and X v»» '.very, afraid ho wottld not get a job." (fcaiighteh) RoWlandson was ft - vejfy artist, and needlessly Bfluliili Gillrayj too, was coarse at times, but he had a remarkable rango, and produced sotao workfc' of art wtffth wiare epic in their * la his day Bagland was known ait the hotne of caricature, W4> one of hii disciples, William Charles, » Scotsman, Went to America, and found* ed the school Of American caricature, Gillray took many of his subjebtsfroxft members of Parliament «< a ftd his caricatures of ffox, Pitt, Cafct. ning,> Burke, and George IH. , give * much bettet impression, of the characters 1 of those persons than, their portraits, in the National Gallery." - •, In the sense that caricature meant in*, dependent impudo&c6» alack of respect, and irreverence, it had - certainly, declined. It wettt out of favout. when re. epect and reverence" entered into it* After John Leech, Tenniel was "the secjf ond landmark in* the decline of caricature.'' He was not a* satirist,at ay« "He was a matter of the, art of 4taw«, ing what apparently said; something but reallytsaid nothing.". To-day, caricature was under the wing . of the newspape* Press; the cartoon* i' Ist waß engaged to'entertain the read- , ers.' What wo had now; was a kind t>f ■ topical "Punny Outs,",and that would I be all right if the average person - had l a senße of humour. "In these days, concluded Mr Low, "we laugh too much s from ouy.bacH teeth, and'Aoo little fyom r our ptomache. think it is temOssibty, I that - caricaturofcaa flourish again until ir spirit"©! iirWjtea^ *\ f v*t ' x f \~* ** " 3.'M£ 1 XA - . ■ ' ' r /