French Literature Greats Pen & Ink Caricature Art Signed Hugo/Moliere CHOICE

Description: For your consideration French Literature Greats Pen & Ink Caricature Art Signed Hugo/Moliere CHOICE. Both pieces are in Good preowned condition, wear to the frame and back, see photos for details and measurements. Choose one or both, multiples will receive price and shipping discount. Victor-Marie Hugo was a French Romantic writer and politician. During a literary career that spanned more than sixty years, he wrote in a variety of genres and forms. He is considered to be one of the greatest French writers of all time. (Wikipedia) Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, known by his stage name Molière, was a French playwright, actor, and poet, widely regarded as one of the great writers in the French language and world literature. His extant works include comedies, farces, tragicomedies, comédie-ballets, and more. (Wikipedia) The History of Caricature ArtThe word caricature derives from the word caricare, meaning to “exaggerate” in Italian. These terms were attributed to several exaggerated portrait drawings produced by the Italian Annibale Carracci in the 1590s. According to the captions he gave, the images were intended for comedy, mocking his own creative principles that he was instructed in at the Bologna Academy. Nowadays, we might question why caricatures took so long to become an acknowledged style of art. Nonetheless, it should be noted that for centuries, artists have attempted to create perfectly realistic representational artwork, which was always seen to be the ultimate objective. This had been accomplished to a larger extent by the time of the High Renaissance. Only when High Renaissance painters mastered the technique of creating a precise likeness did they begin to deconstruct it. (from artincontext.org)

Price: 42.99 USD

Location: Hugo, Minnesota

End Time: 2024-11-27T13:15:25.000Z

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