exaggerations in art

1. How do exaggeration and distortion affect proportion?

Exaggeration and distortion affect proportion in the fact that when an artist used these techniques in an artwork the structure of these objects now become unrealistic and not natural looking.

2. What distorting effects can an artist use?

In an artwork artists can use varying techniques of distortion to portray different effects in an artwork, they can vary the feelings and the emotions of a piece just by exaggerating a certain part of the body or face. Artists can recreate pretty much any part of the body, from stretching the nose to an non proportionate size to making an extremity a size of an eyeball.

3.Why do artists use distortion?

Depending on the artist they use distortion in various ways to accomplish different effects in there artwork. Artists use distortion to draw your eyes to different parts of the artwork to get different perceptions. 

4. How can artists create monumental qualities without using a large scale? 

How they can use these without using a large scale is by exaggerating certain parts of the body, by shrinking one part and making another larger then proportion.