Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The art or practice of making portraits.
- noun A portrait.
- noun Portraits considered as a group.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To paint; portray.
- noun A representation or picture; a painted resemblance; a likeness or portrait.
- noun Likenesses or portraits collectively.
- noun The art of making portraits; the art or practice of portraying or depicting, whether in pictures or in words; the art of the portraitist.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb rare To represent by a portrait, or as by a portrait; to portray.
- noun A portrait; a likeness; a painted resemblance; hence, that which is copied from some example or model.
- noun obsolete Pictures, collectively; painting.
- noun The art or practice of making portraits.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun the art of
painting orphotographing portraits - noun a portrait (or portraits considered as a group)
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the activity of making portraits
- noun a word picture of a person's appearance and character
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Examples
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This portraiture is accomplished with remarkable skill, the traits both individual and national being marked with great nicety without obtrusiveness.
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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 (!).
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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.
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The common quality about portraiture is that the subject looks directly into the camera.
Archive 2005-07-01 2005
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None of Adams's portraiture is included, because Szarkowski finds it "wooden."
Ansel Adams at 100 2002
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None of Adams's portraiture is included, because Szarkowski finds it "wooden."
Ansel Adams at 100 2002
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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 1894
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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.
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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.
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But the interest of portraiture is not merely historical; it is also ethnographical.
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