A certain brittle poshness informed their exaggerated portraits of high-strung secretaries, neurotic piano teachers, absent-minded professors.
There are clear political valences in Hendricks's wonderful, playfully exaggerated portraits of black people in uncountable poses of confidence, cool, defiance, and, more often than advertised, repose.
Out of these 30 new works, many still retain Mr. Hancock's grotesque eccentricities and savantlike detail, whether in wildly exaggerated self-portraits or large-scale abstract-expressionist pieces.
The film stars Matt Damon, Heath Ledger, and Lena Headey in an exaggerated and fictitious portrait of the Brothers Grimm as traveling con-artists in French-occupied Germany during the early 19th century.
But the essay's focus came from an intellectual caricature, a portrait of exaggerated temperaments, reproduced by Drew Friedman in a color drawing.
His most famous self-portrait features an exaggerated version of himself in a fright wig, but the series of self-portraits he made of himself in drag in 1981 is both more restrained and more formally accomplished.
In the 1980s and '90s Paschke continued to paint large heads with exaggerated features and close-up portraits of imagined or recognizable people, such as Elvis Presley and Abraham Lincoln.
Consider two images of people with exaggerated pompadours: Hiro's theatrically lighted 1983 portrait of Sean Penn and Joel Meyerowitz's street picture of a prim, portly, white-haired Englishwoman in pearls.
'What about painted portraits?' she says, recalling Caroline's exaggerated admiration for an art student who once fobbed her off, in lieu of payment, with a sketch he claimed was of the Yorkshire dales.
What are we to make of the exaggerated, Cleopatra-like makeup, framing the eyes in this self portrait?
