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Example sentences for: portraiture
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She's meticulous in her plotting, economical in her descriptions, and exact in her portraiture.
Whatever the weaknesses in the CIA's portraiture, both Presidents Bill Clinton and George Bush and their top advisers told us they got the picture-they understood Bin Ladin was a danger.
But Dolan, introducing his subject through the portraiture of American colonial artist Gilbert Stewart, deconstructed the information we derive from the expressions of others into five categories—familiarity, identity, emotion, intentionality, and character—and was able to describe neural activity associated with carefully constructed experiments to probe each of these facets.
Only Linda Nochlin (whose contribution to the catalog of the Chicago show is an overview of Impressionist portraiture with almost nothing on Renoir) used the Art in America occasion to say something serious and illuminating about Renoir's art, noting that Renoir's men--in such idylls as Luncheon of the Boating Party (1881) and Dance at Bougival (1883) (both great paintings, which blur the distinction between portrait and genre painting, are in the Chicago show)--offer a masculine ideal counter to the male predators and businessmen of Degas and Manet: "Tough and tender at once," these men "are luscious, peachy-skinned and downy-haired, with heavy-lidded eyes and yearning red mouths."
The question is whether the world needs another Picasso show less than a year after the Museum of Modern Art's grand exhibition of his portraiture.
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