How To Use Portraiture In A Sentence

This initially meant they were loath to adopt a reportage style, preferring empty streets and unobscured buildings, with people represented only to provide an area of scale or as pure portraiture.
From the Rushmorean cover portrait of Bush (which over the headline 'An American Revolutionary' was such a brazen and transparent effort to recall George Washington that it was embarrassing) to the 'Why We Fight' black-and-white portraiture of the aggrieved president sitting somberly at the bedside of the war-wounded, this issue is positively hysterical in its iconolatry. "What kind of a maniac puts eagles in a Christmas tree?": James Wolcott
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First the candy: Known as Mozart Kugeln, packed in a delightful red tin with tiny portraitures of the composer, these are deluxe confections exquisitely filled with marzipan, made from "fresh green pistachios, almonds and rich hazelnut-nougat, enrobed with delicious milk and bitter chocolates. Rozanne Gold: Tastes of the Week
The rank and social standing of the subjects of portraiture are also expressed by conventions, which shift with time.

The traditional painterly mediums of oil and watercolour remain the norm for the portraiture commissions.
In addition to providing Tarbell with subjects for portraiture, Emeline and her siblings served as models for figures in genre paintings of leisured genteel life.
The rank and social standing of the subjects of portraiture are also expressed by conventions, which shift with time.
All portraiture is in its origin funerary – that is to say, the earliest known specimens of portraiture are found in tombs, and represent the dead. Pharaohs, Fellahs and Explorers
In the snakepit of celebrity portraiture, none of this is surprising. Times, Sunday Times
The week before's outdoor session was rained off, but nothing daunted the members adjourned to the clubroom where an impromptu portraiture session was set up, with members being put through their paces by Michael O'Sullivan.
While the tintype served the mass-portraiture market, wet-plate lent itself to landscapes, cityscapes, and mass-reproduced celebrity portraits.
‘The birth of photography democratised portraiture, and we reflect that,’ he explains.
While employed by major commercial studios in Pittsburgh, Detroit and Toronto, he continued his studies of fine art, specializing in portraiture, figure, and plein air landscape painting.
But the interest of portraiture is not merely historical; it is also ethnographical. Pharaohs, Fellahs and Explorers
The images, painted with only primary colors and white, range from expressionist portraiture to montages of time and space that combine multiple moments within the same page.
Hitherto, contemporary scenes beyond the scope of portraiture, landscape, or caricature had fallen to two types of artist: topographers and genre painters.
It is a digressive process that leaks out intimations of personality and establishes a position for the portrait where it does not remain static but finds a more dialogic approach to psychological portraiture.
Friedkin's unflinching nihilism, including one of the bleakest, most effed-up endings I've ever seen in an action movie, really kind of undid much of the movie's entertainment value, even if it strengthened its portraiture of this dangerous lifestyle. Cinematical
The panel received little in the way of direct attention at this time; indeed, Romantic-era understandings of art history and portraiture were not conducive to an appreciation of the panel.
Whether you regard it as navel-gazing or self-analysis via the art of portraiture, the self-portrait can reveal far deeper aspects of the self than merely a replication of the face in the picture.
In the snakepit of celebrity portraiture, none of this is surprising. Times, Sunday Times
To this end, she mines the unlikely genre of amateur portraiture, not the legacy of the modernist avant-garde, creating idiosyncratic works, as alluring as they are critical.
His first picture was published in the Evening Times and kicked off a career that encompasses both photojournalism and celebrity portraiture.
Women painters have always excelled in portraiture, certainly the most difficult, if not the highest, branch of art. Art and Handicraft in the Woman's Building of the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893
In this list, de Massoul differentiates between oil colors used in portraiture and those in landscape, with lists of appropriate colors for each. reference This was a common distinction, and one with a practical origin, as manipulating the flesh tones of portraiture and manipulating those to recreate verdure had different chemical properties and different visual constraints. The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe
Theude Gronland painted genre paintings and portraiture, yet he was best known for his still life paintings with flowers and fruits taken as the subject.
This is the beginning of modern portraiture, right here. Times, Sunday Times
Stuart was also the painter of choice for ecclesiastical portraiture and painted countless bishops and deans of the Anglican church.
A full range of styles, from figurative and abstraction to portraiture, landscape, naturalism and cartoon-like renderings, is on display.
We only ask that the portfolio falls within the boundary of photographic reportage: including photojournalism, documentary photography and portraiture.
He came to be influenced in this latter pursuit by primitive forms, which rhymed felicitously with those elongated features found in much of his portraiture.
And with the return of representational art has come the revival of portraiture, which, according to gallery owners and the artists themselves, is thriving and strong.
I am always amazed that the basic rules of portraiture are rarely taught.
In 1815 the strengths of British painting lay in portraiture, animal painting, and landscape.
A better definition would hold that caricature is an artistic mode, usually in the form of a portraiture, in which the characteristic features of the subject are presented in a way that deforms or exaggerates their shape for comic effect.
It's worth contemplating that the most powerful and substantive works are not those in which Zoffany awes us with his considerable skill at painting frothy fabrics and other accoutrements of the era's formal portraiture, but rather the substantive studies of interesting sitters. On the Strength of His Portraits
Turner elevated English landscape painting from its inferior position below history painting and portraiture and gave it a new expressive role.
Hans-Georg Gadamer used "occasionality" as a term for a similar relation in his discussion of portraiture in Truth and Method (1960). The Way to All Flesh
All his art is self-portraiture while his pseudo-radical groupuscule, the toothsomely named Party of Dynamic Erection, is camouflage for the knock-kneed terror that its members – Wick, Irwin and Nipple Warner – all feel in the presence of women. Eunarchy in the UK: George Harrison's first movie
The best portraiture in history was, of course, done in the Low Countries, in an unexampled tradition that continued until the economic eclipse of the Netherlands by England.
From the Rushmorean cover portrait of Bush which over the headline "An American Revolutionary" was such a brazen and transparent effort to recall George Washington that it was embarrassing to the "Why We Fight" black-and-white portraiture of the aggrieved president sitting somberly at the bedside of the war-wounded, this issue is positively hysterical in its iconolatry. The Red Cross Knight
A series of mothers and daughters has been held up as a particularly insightful contribution to family portraiture. Times, Sunday Times
In a perverse sense, it is more honest, where Eliot sneaks a couple of loathsome Jewish portraitures into his poetry, distorted so grossly that they are obviously despicable.
As so much of their art, rooted in portraiture, stems from their personal relationships, this is hardly surprising.
The idea of decorum had its strongest hold on the traditions of portraiture of nobles and worthies.
These people make eye contact with us or look away, often assuming poses and facial expressions found in earlier traditions of portraiture.
He could not abide the notion that his one-time protégé had developed independent projects such as a book on Picasso's portraiture or an exhibition of the works of Gris.
And, indeed, Virgil's theme here is less the development of a character or the portraiture of a hero than the idealisation of the people of the Italy which he loved so well, who needed only a divinely guided leader and civiliser to enter upon the glorious career that was in store for them. The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus
This portraiture is accomplished with remarkable skill, the traits both individual and national being marked with great nicety without obtrusiveness. Poems: Descriptive, Dramatic, Legendary and Contemplative, by William Gilmore Simms, Esq. In Two Volumes: Vol. II. I. Southern Passages and Pictures; II. Historical and Dramatic Sketches; III. Scripture Legends; IV. Francesca Da Rimini
These cultural processes have been present in the creation of visual representation in the United States since its founding, beginning with colonial portraiture.
Certainly, in ukiyo-e portraiture, artists convey identity and character primarily through dress and symbols. How Japan Saw Us
Her work is deeply involved with landscape and shows an insight that is also seen in her portraiture.
Her work is deeply involved with landscape and shows an insight that is also seen in her portraiture.
Fiction is always far in arrear of popular opinion, but there are a few romancers who are coming abreast of the times in portraiture. Stylish Stouts
This exhibit focuses on the art genre of portraiture.
The majority of her work is self portraiture; her aesthetic concerns grew from her fascination with the falsity of appearance.
Oversize because Copping's point of departure thellos season was portraiture, and he designed that coat and others after an artist's model's studio robe.
In America, this director's heartfelt portrait of a family in crisis, waits patiently for much of its running time before explicitly acknowledging its portraiture of spirituality in crisis.
Snakelike railroad, the train of boat form, heroic driver, daredevil passenger, this is the true portraiture of Yue Tiege of another name for Yunnan Province.
The need for such a contextual foundation of the study becomes evident in the chapter on Italian responses to Flemish landscape paintings and portraiture.
Undoubtedly, the author's unique use of newspapers, portraitures, plantation records and diaries, and traveler's accounts, allows readers to get a glimpse of slaves' own insights regarding their nightmarish circumstance.
Of course, their definition or, most irritating, the definitition in most portraiture books of what is the browline is so vague and their cyclopic fiddling with the thumb on the brush gives such imprecise measurements that you can fit just about anything to their preconceptions. Pyle on Light and Shadow
What I mean to suggest here is that sinistrality was encoded as a sign of self-portraiture itself.
Working with different themes - aspects of genre, landscape, nudes and portraiture - each sets new parameters for the field.
Some child, the curse of antiquaries and bane of bibliopolical rarities, hath been dabbling in some of them with its paint and dirty fingers, and in particular hath a little sullied the author's own portraiture, which The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb
Initially, Weston had been a leading exponent of pictorialism – a kind of arty, romanticised style of portraiture that took its cue from the Victorian painters like Whistler. Edward Weston: the greatest American photographer of his generation?
Initially, Weston had been a leading exponent of pictorialism – a kind of arty, romanticised style of portraiture that took its cue from the Victorian painters like Whistler. Edward Weston: the greatest American photographer of his generation?
Portraiture is an art unusually bedevilled by duplicates and copies.
Evidence of religious art is scanty, possibly because of its destruction by Protestant iconoclasts at the end of the century, but portraiture seems to have occupied a position of importance.
More and more, however, Sorolla pushed traditional portraiture toward abstraction by giving sheer painterliness the upper hand over likeness. Sorolla and the Light of the Spanish Sun
The strong undertone of moral earnestness, never preached, gives a stability and force to the vivid portraiture, and prevents the satiric touches from degenerating into mere malice.
With his famous Lute Player, one of the highlights of the Städel's exhibition, Caravaggio had created the incunabulum of Baroque portraiture of musicians, a work enthusiastically received by his successors. Art Knowledge News
Instruction is in various media and covers landscapes, portraiture, still life, book illustration and more.
He isn't confident that his portraiture can sustain a full-length play. Times, Sunday Times
The king was pleased with this very un-Greek style of portraiture and gave Apelles a large bag of gold as payment. Alexander the Great
It is an uncommonly fine piece of official portraiture, pleasing in its lack of eloquence.
Like little portraitures and landscapes, they give the reader glimpses into people and places long since gone.
Perhaps not quite on the same superlative level of accomplishment, but nevertheless making a distinguished and original contribution, is Veronese's work in a third area of secular painting, that of portraiture.
The show will revolve around Caravaggio's famous Lute Player, an incunabulum of Baroque portraiture of musicians. Art Knowledge News
Opinions may differ as to the nature of the Ka itself – one regarding it as a ghost, another as a double, another as an "eidolon" or genius; but no Egyptologist doubts that all forms of portraiture in ancient Egypt were funerary, or that they were expressly designed for the accommodation of the Ka. Pharaohs, Fellahs and Explorers
This paflitge of the aibrefaid pilfery is delineated, and wrought in the hangings about the choir, with the portraitures of the king, H v go I1. 1 m i, and the thief: under which are thefe verles: Antient funeral monuments, of Great-Britain, Ireland, and the islands adjacent
Boullee goes beyond portraiture in his desire for representation, even as he postulates an architecture that does without any of the conventional modes of representation, columns, friezes, swags and so on.
These works could have served as crucial threads to be brought together for an understanding of Rembrandt's unique vision and how he saw himself, his reinvention of history painting and transformation of portraiture.
That is why for portraiture and outdoor photography in general, a yellow filter is often utilized to give a slightly darker rendering to blue values.
The dominant trend in African American portraitures, however, has been created and nurtured by succeeding generations of white imagemakers, beginning as far back as the colonial era.
Both of these images are autobiographic portraiture.
This is surely the debut of movement in British portraiture. Times, Sunday Times
Author Harry Berger Jr. explains why portraiture is almost inherently ridiculous, along the way providing insights on European wars, the Haarlem military, and how the Reformation resulted in an atomic family structure which, in turn created feminism as we know it (!). Waldo Jaquith - VQR on Rembrandt.
Portraiture merges here with voyeurism and surveillance.
When saying, however, that all portraiture is in its origin funerary, I must not be understood to mean that such portraiture is of a memorial character. Pharaohs, Fellahs and Explorers
From an art-history perspective, the lesson teaches about sculpture and portraiture and the differences between two- and three-dimensional art and real and expressive art.
The majority of her work is self portraiture; her aesthetic concerns grew from her fascination with the falsity of appearance.
The strong undertone of moral earnestness, never preached, gives a stability and force to the vivid portraiture, and prevents the satiric touches from degenerating into mere malice.
The study of portraiture, for example, negotiates conceptions about the individual, identity, the self, and subjectivity - critical terms in Renaissance historiography.
The result of a searching determination to deal with personal and not typical forms of temperament is seen in the firmness of the portraiture in _The Wild Duck_, where, I think, less than ever before, is to be found a trace of that incoherency which is to be met with occasionally in all the earlier works of Ibsen, and which seems like the effect of a sudden caprice or change of the point of view. Henrik Ibsen
Non-religious colonial art, which was mostly restricted to portraiture, echoed European styles and conventions although, due to the distance, prototypes were hard to come by.
Mahendra Sinh thus accomplishes a social portraiture that illuminates the process by which self, time and place are constantly produced and re-made in the churn of history.
A man famous for his theatrical fashion and celebrity portraiture might not seem like a natural war photographer. Times, Sunday Times
While there are a few, very minor factual errors, the general span and scope of the book, not to mention the detailed portraiture of the ballerina in her world, are admirable.
None of Adams's portraiture is included, because Szarkowski finds it "wooden. Ansel Adams at 100
The Städel Museum's exhibition differs from past projects by emphatically focusing on the portraiture of musicians and brothel scenes and by directly confronting works by Caravaggio with paintings by the Utrecht artists Terbrugghen, Honthorst, and Baburen. Art Knowledge News
There's a nude portraiture salon and a vintage dressing-up room. Clubs picks of the week
As part landscape painting, part portraiture, the maps evoke a topography fixed forever in time, thus repressing the chaotic historical circumstances of Ireland during the years of the map's production from 1826 to 1852.
But it's a definition of portraiture that once again collapses representation with reality - portraiture under the New Iconoclasm, if you will.
These were no doubt portraitures of both heaven and earth, over which he, as their conqueror, was given all power.
Scholars consider that portrait a milestone in the history of European portraiture.
I've always admired Neel for pursuing portraiture in an age when representative art was deemed irrelevant, when everyone was chasing after Abstract Expressionism, when it was claimed the camera had "freed" the painter from the "tyranny of realism. Confessions of an Uncouth Beast
That such masterworks of portraiture and reportage are now seen in the context of fine art is wholly appropriate.
Snakelike railroad, the train of boat form, heroic driver, daredevil passenger, this is the true portraiture of Yue Tiege of another name for Yunnan Province.
The miniature portrait, either worn as part of a parure, hung from a ribbon, or mounted on a pearl bracelet, was a commonplace of mid-eighteenth-century female portraiture.
She embarked upon her three-decades-long career in the medium as a pioneer of conceptualism, and then went through a period of more classically themed work comprising landscape, cityscape, portraiture and still life.
Centered on the canvas, each image bears a number of formal attributes associated with conventional portraiture.
It is a digressive process that leaks out intimations of personality and establishes a position for the portrait where it does not remain static but finds a more dialogic approach to psychological portraiture.
The study of Zen portraiture, itself a certain preoccupation of art historians, was begun by Japanese scholars before World War II and has continued in Japan and internationally since.
He had created a portrait that was in effect a whole treatise about portraiture as an art.
Written in hieroglyphic form with accompanying portraitures, the historical texts are based on an early form of the Maya language, probably Chol. Primary sources of Maya history - part one
Depictions of half-figure musicians like Baburen's Young Man Singing form the core of the show that deliberately focuses on Terbrugghen, Honthorst, and Baburen as the great three masters of the Utrecht Caravaggists and on the quinquennium from 1621 to 1626, in which the portraiture of musicians found its decisive expression. Art Knowledge News
They are a form of artistic practice, with an art historical context and correlatives in documentary production, self-portraiture, and performance.
It is no wonder then that portraiture and self-portraiture have long been favourite genres for both artists and audiences alike.
Paintings of horses - and other wild animals of ice age Europe such as lions and mammoths - long predate human portraiture.
The 19 th-century American artist Rembrandt Peale touted encaustic for portraiture, claiming that it was akin to painting ‘with liquid flesh.’
The strong undertone of moral earnestness, never preached, gives a stability and force to the vivid portraiture, and prevents the satiric touches from degenerating into mere malice.
Society portraiture continued to thrive, as much in demand in the 1950s as in Gainsborough's day.
It's a residue of ideological values and history, which renders these 10 object essays on social dynamics, context, still life and portraiture.
Recently he has begun a portraiture project on people coming from and going to their place of worship.
The common quality about portraiture is that the subject looks directly into the camera. Archive 2005-07-01
In the standard Western division of genres, mimetic resemblance is the first criterion of portraiture.
The rank and social standing of the subjects of portraiture are also expressed by conventions, which shift with time.

How To Use Portraiture In A Sentence

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