Have you heard of a political cartoon before? If you did study Social Studies in your Secondary School life, then I am sure that you had came across many of such.
Modern political cartoons can comes in various styles and are usually used to express the thoughts of the artists. The content can varies from stereotypical, biased and/or demonizing portrayals of people and event. However, most of the artists have similar purposes - Highlighting the important political and social issues, usually in a comical manner.
Understanding political cartoons is not easy. Usually, the artists used mostly visual metaphors and symbols, and that it is up to you to use your imagination to depict what the cartoons are highlighting about, as well as its actual meaning. However, I do have one website that is able to teach and help you to understand political cartoons.
Personally I have not think of which political cartoon is my all-time favourite. This is because I think that every political cartoon has its own meaning and hence, unique in a way. However, I would like to encourage the artists to feature more of graphical politicians, for example a comic version of Mr Lee Kuan Yew, in their work.
Okay that's all I have for now. Do look out for the forum or the comments and analysis sections of local newspapers. This is usually where political cartoons can be found.
its actually quite easy to understand political cartoons.all you need is to know what incident the cartoonist is refering to
ReplyDeleteBut if you are trying to find out the intended message of the artists then it requires a bit of the understanding of metaphors. ASSUMING that you do not know a thing about political issues.
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