portraiture

Example Sentences

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That tension led him to embark on his own journey into oil and portraiture, which led to paintings of his creative community, including Tyler, the Creator, and Earl Sweatshirt.

From Los Angeles Times

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