#it's the same as with historical comedies they can be loathesome but the Amount it has to show you abt history is incredible | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

fluentisonus · 6 months ago

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ideologically I [often] don't agree with historical caricature art but they really went off with the visually depicting aspects of daily life & dress & types of people you almost never see shown in other types of contemporary art

#idk how to describe it but i really do love a lot of caricature art dearly even though i disagree with it. just for showing all that.#it's the same as with historical comedies they can be loathesome but the Amount it has to show you abt history is incredible #<- like the very act of criticizing or laughing at or exaggerating what obviously was common enough to Be made fun of like that #- that medium then preserving that aspect of life forever in a way that more positive or 'respectable' mediums never would. idk idk #thoughts #also just like invaluable as visual references lol #i say often here bc sometimes they do have good politics actually

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