subject: Appreciating Caricature Arts [print this page] Some say that the evolution of Caricature Arts is relative to censorship; that artists devised a way to tell a story with more subtle ploys, and greater artistic and political undertones. The history of caricature has been often linked with the history of censorship. The real intent of the caricaturist's art has in recent times been depicted as a negotiation between a natural impulse to ridicule and a higher wish for change or reformation.