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Caricature
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The way caricaturists utilized the convention of romantic Salon painting as the basis of a number of images suggests they regarded the Salon as a bastion for official taste and propaganda image-making that often favored the inclinations of the royal family. Caricaturists began to make serious intrusions into the sanctity of Salon exhibitions through their print satires.
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― The Art of the July Monarchy: France, 1830 to 1848
― The Art of the July Monarchy: France, 1830 to 1848
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Port watched, fascinated as always by the sight of a human being brought down to the importance of an automaton or a caricature. By whatever circumstances and in whatever manner reduced, whether ludicrous or horrible, such persons delighted him.
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― The Sheltering Sky
― The Sheltering Sky
