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portraiture

[pawr-tri-cher, pohr-] / ˈpɔr trɪ tʃər, ˈpoʊr- /




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Silhouettes were a cheaper, more accessible form of portraiture.

From New York Times

To get through, he became interested in, then addicted to, Elizabethan portraiture.

From Washington Post

And with the turn to self portraiture, he has found fresh inspiration.

From New York Times

Typically, his art resists figuration — broadly speaking, work that represents the human form through techniques like portraiture and sculpture — in favor of impressionistic amalgams of everything from comic-book panels to maps to salvaged billboard ads.

From New York Times

In Frazier’s portraiture, mountainous Wyoming is not so very different from mountainous western North Carolina, where he was born.

From Washington Post