Abstract

Caricature combines the literary text and the simplified artistic style, as it is a media material of the type of plain and abstaining, and it is a ramified art like the rest of the arts that has historical sarcastic.
What the current research means is the study of (manifestations of tragicomedy in contemporary Iraqi caricature) to identify these distinctive aspects in caricature art. Contemporary). In addition to the limits of the research (2003-2018), the first chapter ended by defining the most important terms contained in the research.
The second chapter dealt with the first topic, the concept of tragicomedy, while the second topic dealt with the concept of caricature art, its origins, and its most important characteristics, and the third chapter included research procedures in terms of the research community of (200) drawings, of which (98) drawings were intentionally chosen, then 40% was calculated and distributed equally to Drawings with comic content and others with tragic content, as well as the building blocks for analyzing the drawings, which included a number of axes that the researcher built based on the literature of specialization and the modest experience of the researcher. They were subjected to validity and consistency to verify their suitability and the use of a set of mathematical means to suit the purposes of the research. The fourth chapter included a presentation The results and their interpretation, a number of conclusions, recommendations and proposals, and a group of Arab and foreign sources.