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| Louis Philippe as a pear by Honoré Daumier after Charles Philipon 1831 |
If part of the face should be great, make it bigger. Simplify, reduce, or reducing everything else. What you are left after all this reduction are the essential forms, simple forms of the head and hair. The most important thing about the characteristics is their relative positioning.
Caricature is not the art of accentuation. It is the art of reduction reduction to the essentials.