Cartoons are pictures drawn on thick cardboard (cartone). Is a drawing sketch art (fine art) as a pattern for design painting, tapestry, stained-glass, mosaic or a fresco in the Italian Renaissance era. Masterpis is famous as a Raphael cartoons for the Sistine Chapel tapestries (Victoria and Albert Muss).
In the 16th century cartoons mengkiritik used for propaganda and policy reform in Germany. In 1843 in England, a series of drawings appeared in Punch magazine that criticized the cartoons for the frescoes in the House of Parliament. Since then the term political cartoons in the art of journalism. Cartoon images indeed evolved into humor, satire, or parody. Cartoon humor still referred to as cartoons, political cartoons were later known as caricature (karros-carrus-carricare, in Latin Gallia train. Then a caricatura in French which means to load or exaggerate)
But sometimes people also love one to distinguish between the cartoons and caricatures, watch tablets two words have different meanings, so although it is still close.
It is said that the caricature is as old as art itself. In ancient times the existing scratches caricature on the walls of the cave. Then in the XV and XVI century, when Martin Luther made (the drawings in the form of woodcut protest to refuse sales letters or letters alfaat penance. From here imege caricature as an art of protest found expression. Then what is the meaning that caricature own? caricature comes from the Latin "caricare" and "caratere". caricare mean load (excessive) and caratere means character or nature. Then the combined word is strengthened by the word "way" that comes from spain which means face. from this caricature can be summed up as an excessive portrayal of character. the definition above is then strengthened with the definition of the two encyclopedias, the encyclopedia and the Encyclopedia Britannica International. According to the encyclopedia International, "a caricature is a satyre in Pictorial and sculptural form." So it may take the form of two caricatures dimensional or three dimensional. While rnenurut Encyclopedia Britannica, "A caricature is the distorted presentation of a person, or action type, commonly a silent feature, is seized upon the exagerated, or picture or animals, or vegetables are substituted Hinds / or human hart being or analogy is made to animal actions. "from this original cartoon found two properties, namely exagerated (distorted) and satire. Maybe from here we can conclude that the caricature is a depiction of a person's face by exaggerating (exagerated or distorted) in the outward character humoristis thus become more "beautiful" than the original. the word caricature is more popularized by Gian Lorenzo Bernini with the word "caricatura" when it comes to France.
Now back to cartoon, cartoon adalagi opinion about the other at the last:
Historically, the cartoon is the last level of a series of preparatory drawing (painting) in a traditional studio at the time of renaissance. In the 1840s, when the practice in the studio fewer in number, cartoon appeared as a work of satire that sharpen public opinion against any incident or event. The word cartoon itself comes from the Latin, "cartoone" which means the picture funny. It has been very clearly explained what it was once a cartoon. In later cartoons perkembangannnya into several categories such as political cartoon and gag cartoon. But along the way, the use of the word cartoon and caricature is often very ambiguous (especially in Indonesia). Often each image in a humorous caricature of the media called. Maybe it's because the Dutch colonial era luggage that does not recognize the word Cartoon prent but spot-which means the picture is also funny. A clear difference of cartoon and caricature is that the cartoon is an image that is more humorous look at the action / act / talk or a state. Because it's a cartoon called "comedy of manners", a comedy of behavior. So the cartoon is more directed to the story than the caricature that emphasizes form.
We must emphasize here,
A caricature can be called a cartoon, but can not be called a cartoon caricature. But there is equality of both, they both have an element of humor that Freud says is 'a small war against yourself'.