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An artist who finds your worst feature and makes it your whole face.
means An artist who draws people by exaggerating their distinctive features for comic or satirical effect.
from From Italian caricatura, 'an overload,' rooted in caricare, 'to load or exaggerate' — the same verb behind English 'cargo' and 'charge.' Italian artists in the 1500s–1600s used the term for portraits deliberately 'overloaded' with a subject's features, turning likeness into weapon or joke. The word, and the art, traveled into French and then English largely intact — carrying its load with it.
- core skill
- exaggerating the one feature you fixate on
- speed
- boardwalk pros finish a face in minutes
- origin
- from Italian caricare, to load or exaggerate
- paradox
- the meaner it looks, the better it sells