Political Cartoons: More Than Meets The Eye

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Political Cartoons: More Than Meets The Eye How to Interpret the Basic Elements of Political Cartoons

What Are Political Cartoons? Art form that serves as a source of opinion on society Express viewpoints on political, economic, or social issues Make use of humor, symbolism, historical events, and stereotypes

How To Read Them? Artist’s viewpoint Symbols Captions Humor and Satire Historical Images

Artist’s Viewpoint: The purpose of any political cartoon is to express an opinion What subject or issue is the artist commenting on? How is the subject portrayed? What feelings are suggested by the images?

What is the artist’s viewpoint of this cartoon?

What is the artist’s viewpoint of this cartoon? Voter apathy: People who don’t vote will be in trouble with society. Heitzmann, W.R. (1980) Political cartoons: Scholastic social studies skills. New York: Scholastic, Inc.

Use of Symbols: Images that stand for something else Symbols can stand for objects, places, groups of people, beliefs, character traits, or ideas Common symbols for our country: *Uncle Sam=United States *Set of Scales=Justice or court system *Dollar bill=Money Animals used as symbols *Donkey= the Democratic Party *Elephant= the Republican Party *Dove= Peace *Fox= Sly or untrustworthy

What Do These Symbols Mean?

Captions Can help the reader understand the message, even if the symbols aren’t familiar. http://www.intoon.com/cartoons.cfm

Humor and Satire Humor creates interest Caricature: overemphasis of a person’s features Irony: saying the opposite of what was really meant Satire: the portrayal of a wrongdoing to that it becomes the object of ridicule Stereotype: an oversimplified judgment of a group of people or objects

Humor and Satire Heitzmann, W.R. (1980) Political cartoons: Scholastic social studies skills. New York: Scholastic, Inc. http://www.comics.com/editoons/ariail/archive/ariail-20070919.html Heitzmann, W.R. (1980) Political cartoons: Scholastic social studies skills. New York: Scholastic, Inc. Hakim, J. (1993). A history of us: An age of extremes. New York: Oxford University Press.

Historical Images Artists include historical or literary images to help express viewpoints on current issues Recognizing the historical or literary images is necessary to understand the meaning of the cartoon

Historical Images http://www.immigrants.harpweek.com/ChineseAmericans/Illustrations/ 078EPluribusUnumMain.htm Heitzmann, W.R. (1980) Political cartoons: Scholastic social studies skills. New York: Scholastic, Inc. The angel of Teddy Roosevelt reacting to the news that Pres. Carter would turn over the control of the Panama Canal to the Panamanian government in 1999. Soldiers “guarding” the entrance to the United States to all immigrants except the Chinese following the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882.

How Will We Use Cartoons? Understand public opinion of a particular time period Examine opposing views Compare historical and contemporary issues

Rule of Thirds A compositional rule of thumb in visual arts such as painting, photography, and design The rule status that an image should be imagined as divided into nine equal parts by two equally-spaced horizontal lines and two equally spaced vertical lines Important compositional elements should be placed along these lines or their intersections

Cartoon Analysis worksheet: http://www. pbs