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An exhibition of drawings and engravings of satires and caricatures made by famous artists from the Renaissance to our days. This exhibition can be visited from now at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
The works on display are part of the work of painters, famous artists and writers of their respective times, and indeed of all times, since we are talking about the greatest, among them: Leonardo Da Vinci, Goya, Delacroix, Enrique Chagoya and Toulouse-Lautrec, whom among many others who devoted part of their work to humor and satirizing political, religious personages of these and other fields. Cartoon work of these renowned artists, was born perhaps with Leonardo Da Vinci, but cartoons have always existed from long before Leonardo´s sketches, and have been seen as an exaggeration of certain physical characteristics, such as an exaggerate appearance and a twisted body language to express in a grotesque way the political or social character or person who is drawn. Thus, the Metropolitan Museum has collected a large number of these works, many never exhibited before in any museum, making this exhibition unique and which started on September 13th and ends just past March 4th, 2012.
In addition to the acclaimed artists mentioned, the exhibition includes part of another group of famous cartoon artists such as Thomas Rowlandson, James Gillray, Honoré Daumier, Al Hirschfeld and David Levine, the latter a contemporary artist known for his work as an humorous illustrator for the “New York Review of Books” and is considered by many as the best cartoonist of the second half of the twentieth century.
The exhibition entitled “Infinite Jest: Caricature and Satire from Leonardo to Levine,” is already on the programming of exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, so if you´re in town or you´re traveling in the coming months, don´t hesitate visiting it
For more information visit: http://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2011/infinite-jest–caricature-and-satire-from-leonardo-to-levine
A magnificent exhibition in a magnificent city. Rent apartments in New york and do not miss the chance to view previously unseen works of these masters of drawing and printmaking at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
Translated by: Marc
