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06/23/2003 11:48:40 PM · #1 |
I'm entering photographs into a county fair and two of the categories are "Character Study" and "Caricature."
What exactly should these images portray? Are these variations on the portrait? What are the differences? I've been trying to find examples on the internet and can't seem to find anything. Now I go to the experts. =-) Any help is appreciated!
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06/24/2003 12:16:25 AM · #2 |
a character study is a portrait that expresses a part of someone's personality. i.e. you take a portrait of a man who is a painter. You dress him up in a french beret and have him hold some brushes or something and voila! The audience gets it.... he's an artist.
It's a portrait that displays the personality or hobbies of a particular person. It could also be any portrait that displays a certain character... could be mischieviousness displayed with a coy smile... anything. It's one step beyond the conventional portrait.
I dont really know how a character study differs from a caricature though.... help anyone? |
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06/24/2003 12:22:52 AM · #3 |
A caricature is a representation, especially pictorial or literary, in which the subject's distinctive features or peculiarities are deliberately exaggerated to produce a comic or grotesque effect.
You most often see this with newspaper editorial cartoons, where the ears, eyebrows and nose are enlarged of a famous person.
I can't imagine it would be easy to photograph someone this way, unless you were using a very wide angle lens to create the distortion. |
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06/24/2003 12:30:39 AM · #4 |
| yeah, when I think of caricature I think of cartoons. I do a lot of caricature illustrations based on photos, but don't really see how this would be done in a photo without heavy manipulation. Are there editing rules involved in this competition? Does it have to be photography or is it illustration as well? It sounds like both are accepted given your explaination, but they may have just included caricature by accident not really knowing what it was. A caricature, by definition, is not a realistic photo of a person. |
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06/24/2003 12:51:14 PM · #5 |
Originally posted by JasonPR:
Are there editing rules involved in this competition? Does it have to be photography or is it illustration as well? |
They don't have any rules about editing. Illustration is not part of the exhibit I am entering.
I had the same impression about the term "caricature." I've only heard "caricature" describing cartoon illustrations. Perhaps the subject of the caricature photo would have an exaggerated expression? I really don't know...
I do have a photo that I manipulated with Elements that may be considered a caricature. But first I will have to search all my photo CDs and my hardrive to find it! When I find it, I'll post it.
Thanks for the help!!! =-)
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06/24/2003 01:54:16 PM · #6 |
Originally posted by BigSmiles:
a character study is a portrait that expresses a part of someone's personality. i.e. you take a portrait of a man who is a painter. You dress him up in a french beret and have him hold some brushes or something and voila! The audience gets it.... he's an artist.
It's a portrait that displays the personality or hobbies of a particular person. It could also be any portrait that displays a certain character... could be mischieviousness displayed with a coy smile... anything. It's one step beyond the conventional portrait.
I dont really know how a character study differs from a caricature though.... help anyone? |
The difference is in the exaggeration. In the above example, if you have the beret, tiny moustaches, cape, cigarette holder and espresso cup, intimation of semi-nude model, arms waving "expressively," you would have a caricature of an artist.
A photo of the same guy (or a woman) with no hat, western plaid shirt and jeans, looking pensively past the easel at a landscape would express the something of the character of this particular artist without being a stereotype of the term "painter." |
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06/25/2003 05:42:37 AM · #7 |
See my example of a caricature in the self portrait challenge :)
Caricature!
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