The Effect of Sarcasm on the Iraq Contemporary Caricature

Abstract

The importance of the research comes from the attempt to operate the trend of sarcasm and put it into artistic application as a phenomenon or a human condition and to clarify the extent of its operation in the field of contemporary Iraqi cartoon art, starting from its problem, which was summarized by answering the following question: What is the effect of satire tendency through formal treatments and implications on contemporary Iraqi caricature? As for the aim of the research, it is an attempt to reveal the effect of satire on contemporary Iraqi caricature, and it is determined by pictorials from contemporary Iraqi newspapers: (Al-Zaman - Al-Mada - Al-Zawra - Fraternity - Al-Sha`ab Path - The New Morning) obtained from the political cartoon site for the period from 2017 2018, the researcher prepared a content analysis form according to the descriptive approach to analyze the (55) models selected in a systematic, random way, and the most prominent results of the study were: There is a clear effect of satirical tendency on contemporary Iraqi caricature and the results indicated that the caricatures in contemporary Iraqi newspapers were characterized by the diversity of local and international political topics The economic, social, cultural and religious meanings were loaded with ironic formulations, and the most prominent recommendations were Paying attention to the concept of satirical tendency is a source of enriching the arts according to current and future challenges, and making use of the technologies provided by the Internet, especially in archiving caricatures.