What's the difference between caricature and caricaturist?
Caricature
Definition:
(v. t.) An exaggeration, or distortion by exaggeration, of parts or characteristics, as in a picture.
(v. t.) A picture or other figure or description in which the peculiarities of a person or thing are so exaggerated as to appear ridiculous; a burlesque; a parody.
(v. t.) To make or draw a caricature of; to represent with ridiculous exaggeration; to burlesque.
Example Sentences:
(1) A Swedish news agency said it had received an email warning before the blasts in which a threat was made against Sweden's population, linked to the country's military presence in Afghanistan and the five-year-old case of caricatures of the prophet Muhammad by Swedish artist Lars Vilks.
(3) He is a “caricature machine politician” , Goldsmith has claimed, but also the proponent of “divisive and radical politics” .
(4) While gothic grandeur fills the windows, the walls are plastered with pop memorabilia and personal paraphernalia: tributes, affectionate caricatures; a Who poster signed by Roger Daltrey; a Queens Park Rangers banner and, relegated to the top of a bookcase, a ministerial red box from the Home Office.
(5) One is the stubborn mystery of how a giant of its liberation movements, an intellectual who showed forgiveness and magnanimity years before Mandela emerged from jail, could turn into the living caricature of despotism.
(6) Last week he began that process in a New Statesman interview in which he said: "I'm caricatured as a tribalist.
(7) While caricatures of welfare dependents reign unchallenged, pressing practical questions about how poor people can make ends meet are ducked.
(8) He sometimes bordered on caricature, but always provided colour and verve.
(9) Here we examine a simple one-dimensional caricature of their model which exhibits similar linear behaviour and present a nonlinear analysis which shows the possibility of superposition of modes subject to appropriate parameter values and initial conditions.
(10) His Star Trek reboots are dispiriting: the quirky and beloved sci-fi franchise pureed into stimulating but unremarkable blockbuster entertainment, distinguished mainly by caricatures of iconic characters that are more branding than interpretation.
(11) Morphological and immunohistochemical analyses showed that these tumors caricature the biology of the renewing epidermis: the presence of basal-like cells; differentiating cells; apoptotic cells; and keratinized horn pearls with an exaggerated or overabundant stem cell compartment as compared to the differentiated cell compartment.
(12) Tea Partyers were not the backward dimwits caricatured in the media.
(13) The caricature of the older person as slow, rambling and confused is a familiar stereotype, reinforced by a media that often focuses on perceived age-related failings in public figures such as Ronald Reagan, Menzies Campbell and, more recently, Rupert Murdoch.
(14) It is a complex picture – tough to caricature and tougher to address.
(15) If we think that the way we should conduct political debate is by caricaturing people we disagree with as Bennites, I think it is an absolutely hopeless way to conduct a political debate.
(16) A report outlining the plan, written by Blunkett, accuses the coalition of producing a system where the logical conclusion would be 20,000 autonomous schools and "an unmanageable Kafkaesque caricature freeing schools from everything except the secretary of state".
(17) But surely we can do so without reducing those with differing views to caricature."
(18) The official Twitter account of Fillon’s party, Les Républicains , published a caricature of Macron depicting him as a hook-nosed banker in a top hat cutting a cigar with the communist symbol of the red sickle.
(19) The revolutionary volunteers have churned out caricatures of Gaddafi being throttled until money pops from his throat, and of him naked and alone on a desert island with a slogan that says he is with the only friend he has in the world.
(20) In his memoir, he recalls the extravagant nicknames of some of the locas and transvestites whom he frequented: like their cross-dressed bodies, their names were a sort of parodic translation of their caricatured identity.
Caricaturist
Definition:
(n.) One who caricatures.
Example Sentences:
(1) After a Turkish court sued caricaturist Musa Kart for depicting then prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan as a cat entangled in a ball of wool in 2005, Penguen published a series of animals all sporting the heads of Erdoğan – a Turkish government leader known for his lack of a sense of humour and his love of suing unruly cartoonists – and promptly found itself facing a court case for defaming authority.
(2) He had a slight malformation of the spine that gave him a stooping gait, which was used by caricaturists to represent him as a malevolent, hunchbacked dwarf (he was actually quite tall) with disproportionately large ears, always dressed in black, lurking in the dark corners of the republic, holding the strings of the political puppet show that unfolded year after year.
(3) "The surest mark of a healthy society is the degree to which public figures accept the right of everyone else to laugh at them, something which cartoonists and caricaturists have helped enable for centuries.
(4) In England this is reflected in the works of Hogarth and other notable caricaturists.
(5) As Europe descended into war in the 1930s, one French caricaturist said he’d given up on pen and ink and was using a camera instead.
(6) Tips and the author's experiences are related to help the first-time caricaturist.
(7) Another caricaturist portrayed Netanyahu heading for the event with angling gear, saying he was planning an outing to “fish in muddy waters”.
(8) I compliment him on these likenesses and ask if he’s ever worked as a caricaturist.
(9) Impressionists and caricaturists, meanwhile, complain that they can't properly satirise Clegg, because he has few distinguishing features.
(10) Leading caricaturists in the Middle East condemned the Paris killings but the magazine’s publication of another image of the prophet Muhammad this week has been criticised in several countries that denounced the murders.