Caricatural Portrait - Gouache on Paper by Max Turner

In this gouache portrait, Max Turner has opted for caricature. Caricature is a form of art that involves exaggerating a person's physical features to create a humorous or satirical effect. This form of art can be used to poke fun with tenderness at a person and highlight their perceived flaws or quirks or to entertain and amuse.Is this portrait representing a well-known person or just a friend for whom Turner indulged in this parodic study? It may be just one casework given to its students to distort reality, draw it, and then return to the essential: figure drawing and building a representation as precise as possible of a model.As in the art of portrait caricature, Turner typically focused on the expression of the face, emphasising and distorting specific characteristics such as the skull wearing a little hat, nose, protruding ears, and close-set eyes. The forehead is greatly exaggerated, and a skinny neck supports the head. Turner's artistry brings forth an intense delicacy in this p