Tom Richmond – Master Of Caricatures

April 8, 2007 in Artist by Vyoma | No comments

I have been not posting here as regularly as I had promised, but there is a reason for it. As I said at Splat, it is taking a bit more time for me to settle down that I thought it would.

Tom Richmond

But, you can keep yourself occupied by the rants and news at the blog of Tom Richmond. He is, as far as I know, one of the master of caricatures. You can see, some of his works in the quite famous parody magazine, MAD.

Caricature is a quite different form of art.

A caricuature work is basically a representation of a subjects distinctive features or peculiarities. One needs to have a distinctive style in order to gain success and recogniation as a caricature artists. (Tom though, calls himself as an ‘humorous illustrator’).

In this line of work, there are times when people get annoyed and sue the artist.  But in recognition of the general “free speech” laws, courts usually uphold the rights of artists to create works on other people whenever the intention was for parody.