portraiture

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"All I know is that studying portraiture growing up, it never dawned on me that it was a form of art that artists of colour could reference and study," he says of Gagosian's high praise.

From BBC

Three groundbreaking Black portraiture artists have exhibitions this fall at university art museums, two of which are Ivy League schools — historically white spaces with pasts that are entangled with slavery.

From New York Times

Richard sees these images as a logical extension of portraiture, which was once popular among the rich.

From BBC

He worked in advertising — once portraying nuns in jeans for a clothing company — as well as in the world of high art and portraiture.

From Seattle Times

The faces are at once classically familiar and deeply strange, like Northern Renaissance portraiture pushed through a Cubist sieve, Hans Memling’s “Portrait of Barbara van Vlaendenbergh” worked over with a tire iron.

From New York Times