Abstract: E. H. Gombrich's discussions on caricatures play an important role in his study of the history of art and image psychology. He begins his narrative of the magic of art with the taboos of caricature and in this way delineates the course of Western art history. He also reflects on the representational images in Western Naturalism from the perspective of equivalences of caricatures, and by means of this he reveals the truth of image psychology. Gombrich argues that all image makings, including the one aiming at representation, pursue equivalences instead of similarities, and image makers always devote themselves to conducting various experiments to forge keys to our senses. Since making caricatures, even all kinds of images, is not to discover something that is already made, all drawings are mainly inventions of artists.

Key words: E.H.Gombrich, caricature, discovery, invention