Portrait caricatures are exaggerated and deformed to represent characters, making their characteristics more prominent and their personalities more clear. Portrait comics do not require comprehensive representation and portrayal, as long as they highlight the characters' easily identifiable or well-known characteristics, so as to be more vivid and lively, in-depth and diverse to exaggerate the characters drawn.
I especially liked it after I came across a cartoon of a portrait painted by Tullio Pericoli for the Italian encyclopedic scholar Umberto Eco.
Umberto Echo (5 January 1932 – 19 February 2016) was an Italian novelist, literary critic, philosopher, semiotician and university professor
I can see the shadows of the Middle Ages everywhere, and it is obvious that they cover my daily life, and the trivialities of life that seem completely out of tune with the Middle Ages are actually tainted with medieval colors. - "The Name of the Rose"
Echo, referring to Pericoli, did not hesitate to praise him, saying that he was the best portrait painter in the world, "a thinker or artist presented in the form of a cartoon is a portrait with great psychological insight, and always reaches the level of praise." So he became more curious about Pericoli, and after entering his wonderful painting world, he peeked into the depths and dined with Jun.
Tullio Pericoli was born in 1936 in the municipality of Colli del Tronto in the italian province of Ascoli Piceno. In 1961, Pericoli moved to Milan and gradually became famous as an internationally renowned painter.
Self-portrait of Tullio Pericoli (born 2 October 1936).
From the 1970s onwards, Pericoli began to publish his paintings in Linus Cartoon Magazine, Corriere della Sera and L'Espresso, and exhibited in Milan, Parma, Urbino and other places. In 1984, he began to publish long-term illustrations in the newspaper Republic, and came to prominence. Since then, Pericoli has painted tirelessly, participating in many exhibitions and winning numerous awards. He has mastered the fields of illustration, comics, oil painting, stage design and other fields, and gradually formed his own unique style. Among them, the most representative is the portrait caricature he created. In 1990, Pericoli launched the portrait collection Ritratti Arbitrari, published by Einaudi. In 2002, the Adelphi publishing house I Ritratti brought together 577 faces of celebrities, mainly from the world of literature.
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Heaven should look like a library. - "Poetry about the Gift of Heaven"
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The tears of the world have their own fixed amounts. Someone in one place cries, and in another place someone must stop crying and laugh. - "Waiting for Godot"
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We all live in the gutters, but there are still people looking up at the stars. - "Lady Wen's Fan"
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None of us wants to believe that our suffering is all of our own making. We all think that the world owes us so much that we don't get happiness; when we don't, we blame the person closest to us. - Faulkner Essay
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I was as poor as the poor, like them, and surrendered myself to humble hope; like them, day after day, I almost killed myself to live. - "Gramsci's Ashes"
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There are no jokes, all jokes have a serious component. — Freud
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Love no longer gives me peace, only gives me the glory of pain. - "No one can sing at this meeting"
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When we were young, we used to make faces in the mirror. In old age, the mirror was flattened. - "Cassette Camera"
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In life, sometimes life slows down significantly, as if it is hesitating or trying to change direction. A person is more likely to encounter disasters at this time. - "Three Women"
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The world was cold and harsh, and if he couldn't feel the heat flowing from his cheeks, he wouldn't be interested anymore. - "The Ear Witness"
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Although the process of natural selection is very slow, in the long years, through the law of survival of the fittest, the mutual adaptation between all living things, between organisms and their natural living conditions, will surely develop and change in a more perfect and complex direction without restriction. - "The Origin of Species"
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It is impossible to force consistency in human skills, but to be noble is something that everyone can do with hard work. - "Treasure Island"
In Pericoli's view, portrait caricatures are "more real and more storyful" than official photos. He is good at capturing details, presenting the characteristics of the characters by excavating the hidden stories behind the portraits, pouring his love and imagination into literature in the paintings, and the portraits are also much more vivid.