(n.) The likeness of a person, painted, drawn, or engraved; commonly, a representation of the human face painted from real life.
(n.) Hence, any graphic or vivid delineation or description of a person; as, a portrait in words.
(v. t.) To portray; to draw.
Example Sentences:
(1) Some parents are blessed with a soul that lights up every time their little precious brings them a carefully crafted portrait or home-made greetings card.
(2) Using an oil painting by G.F. Watts displayed in the National Portrait Gallery of London, we made an attempt to diagnose the dermatological alterations recognizable.
(3) These letters are also written during a period when Joyce was still smarting from the publishing difficulties of his earlier works Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.” Gordon Bowker, Joyce’s biographer, agreed: “Joyce’s problem with the UK printers related to the fact that here in those days printers were as much at risk of prosecution on charges of publishing obscenities as were publishers, and would simply refuse to print them.
(4) "The results present a remarkably bleak portrait of life in the UK today and the shrinking opportunities faced by the bottom third of UK society," said the head of the project, Professor David Gordon of Bristol University.
(5) An accurate portrait of BLS and ACLS instructors is crucial for organizations such as the American Heart Association if they wish to attract and retain instructors.
(6) As well as a portrait of Austen, the new note will include images of her writing desk and quills at Chawton Cottage, in Hampshire, where she lived; her brother's home, Godmersham Park, which she visited often, and is thought to have inspired some of her novels, and a quote from Miss Bingley, in Pride and Prejudice: "I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading!"
(7) All in all, the portrait of the ASHA membership is both colorful and attractive--definitely suitable for framing.
(8) It brought back Thatcher biographer Hugo Young's words for a front page portrait that offered criticism as well as praise for her legacy.
(9) But it was also a portrait of an England charged with secrets - and, as Michael Billington put it, the work of an accomplished playwright who understood the English curse of 'emotional evasion.'
(10) Thanks to the Heritage Lottery Fund, the Art Fund and countless donations from individuals and groups, this wonderful picture – a masterpiece by any standards – will be enjoyed, free of charge, in the National Portrait Gallery for many generations to come."
(11) What he didn’t foresee was that getting to know people more intimately would result in his using portraits – more than 130 so far – to raise awareness of the plight of chronic homelessness generally or that he would become passionately vocal about what has been an entrenched issue for a number of US cities for decades.
(12) With portraits of women, asylum seekers and refugees the photographs also go beyond Berger and Mohr's timely but time-limited portrayal of the archetypal migrant being a man seeking work.
(13) He would have been knocking it all sideways.” Anarchy & Beauty: William Morris and his Legacy, 1860-1960 is at the National Portrait Gallery , London, 16 October – 11 January.
(14) A singular perturbation analysis of the 8-dimensional phase portrait of the model characterizes the role of calcium during the plateau phase of the ventricular action potential and demonstrates how the calcium refractory period prevents tetanization.
(15) But Olney wanted to be an artist and he set off for Paris, where he found himself a garret in which he could make portraits and a new life among friends, lovers and acquaintances that included the black American writer and civil rights pioneer James Baldwin, WH Auden and, distantly, Edith Piaf, whom he saw sing Je ne Regrette Rien for the first time at the Olympia theatre.
(16) On the night before the opening of the exhibition, A Portrait of Marrakech, I visited the big room in the historic El Badi Palace that currently functions as a temporary MMPVA project space.
(17) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Laura Cumming beside Velázquez’s Portrait of a Man at Apsley House, where John Snare would also have seen it.
(18) The documentary, Jane Austen: The Unseen Portrait?, is due to air on BBC2 on Boxing Day.
(19) But he suddenly realised that, not only was he about to sit for the most intimate portrait of him ever, the crowd was also watching.
(20) The very first collection we worked on together was called The Birds, and when he got the Givenchy job and we went to Paris, and he got to see what the Givenchy ateliers could do with feathers, he was just blown away.” The photographer Anne Deniau, who took many portraits of McQueen and whose camera was from 1997 to 2010 the only one allowed backstage at McQueen shows, felt that he loved “the lightness, the delicacy, of feathers.
Portraiture
Definition:
(n.) A portrait; a likeness; a painted resemblance; hence, that which is copied from some example or model.
(n.) Pictures, collectively; painting.
(n.) The art or practice of making portraits.
(v. t.) To represent by a portrait, or as by a portrait; to portray.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is a bizarre, fascinating, crazily over-the-top piece of self-portraiture which verges on self-vivisection, culminating in Kim's cracked performance of "Arirang", a Korean folk-song replete with anguish.
(2) But by now the Glasgow Boys had gone their separate ways – to north Africa, London and Kirkcudbright by way of Japan – and migrated to portraiture and decorative styles that matched the art nouveau of the new century.
(3) "I would go to any length," he says, "to avoid architecture as self-portraiture."
(4) Slive closely shows how the paintings work technically as group portraits of the governors and governesses of the Haarlem almshouses where the impoverished Hals himself received charity; but Berger says of Slive’s analysis, “It’s as though the author wants to mask the images, as though he fears their directness and accessibility.” However prone Slive may be to an art historian’s preference for painterly values over social discourse, his analysis is nevertheless closer to the heart of the matter than Berger’s fanciful account of a kind of class stand-off between the destitute artist and the governors, not least because on another and more likely reading, given Hals’s approach to portraiture even of men and women in their prime, these two groups are painted with compassion but above all with a sharp eye for laying down what was before him.
(5) The NPG considers the self-portrait one of the world's finest and while Van Dyck may have been Flemish he was very much the leading court painter in England and had an enormous impact on British portraiture by moving it away from the stiff formality of Tudor and Jacobean painting.
(6) There would be no Sistine Chapel without the Holy See; no Dutch old masters without the bourgeoisie and their desire for portraiture.
(7) A principal factors solution with orthogonal rotations yielded 6 factors: ambiguous abstraction vs. controlled human realism, mildly distorted representation, emotional detachment, traditional portraiture vs. surrealism, highly distorted representation, and geometric abstraction.
(8) "He decisively turned it away from the stiff formal approach of Tudor and Jacobean painting developing a distinctive fluid, painterly style that was to dominate portraiture well into the 20th century," Nairne said.
(9) While accepting the honor , West referenced his respect for presidential portraiture.
(10) Nicholas Cullinan, director of the NPG, said it was the most ambitious exhibition of Russian portraiture to take place in a British museum: “These two exhibitions in London and Moscow form an important act of cultural exchange for both institutions.” His counterpart in Moscow, Zelfira Tregulova, said she hoped it signalled “the start of a bright new chapter in the history of cultural co-operation between our two countries.” The importance of the exchange is reflected by the stellar nature of some of the loans.
(11) It is allegory, it's portraiture, it's animal painting, it's fruit-and-vegetable painting, it's got quite a lot of landscape, it's got the female nude, it's got men in armour.
(12) Nikko Hurtado is a tattoo artist based in Hesperia, California, who specialises in colour portraiture tattoos at cult studio Black Anchor Collective.
(13) Her membership of the Surrealists and her political activities in Paris, her written texts encompassing, among other things, an attack on Louis Aragon, a French translation of Havelock Ellis's Woman in Society, a parody of Oscar Wilde's Salomé (the original of which her uncle had edited), and a vast array of self-portraiture – all of it was forgotten.
(14) Unusually, he is seated, a pose normally reserved for women in Renaissance portraiture – standing would be more manly.
(15) When they're not inappropriately twerking or tweeting they're clogging up the internet with questionable self-portraiture.
(16) In 1994 Bernard Descamps had been in Bangui and had asked to be introduced to local photographers and was taken to meet Fosso – already 20 years into his self-portraiture.
(17) No other painter had such a dramatic impact on British portraiture, helping turn it away from the stiff formal approach of Tudor and Jacobean painting.
(18) He said the self-portrait was up there with the best and no other painter had had such a dramatic impact on British portraiture as Anthony van Dyck.
(19) The form has developed - from the 18th-century English invention of child portraiture, through the mass-marketed blandishments of Kate Greenaway and Cicely Mary Barker, to cutesy cards and blushing bottom advertising.
(20) Shot in black and white, Capozziello's photographs move between intimate portraiture and fly-on-the-wall personal reportage.