Example sentences for: portraiture

How can you use “portraiture” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • 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.

  • Much Renaissance and Baroque portraiture displays its successful effect, which has repeatedly inspired high and low practical elegance ever since.

  • 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."

  • 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.

  • "Distinctions between reportage, portraiture and fashion have always seemed arbitrary," the photographer told the London Times a few years ago "I'm one of those photographers who can address a camera towards anything that takes his interest, and I'm interested in many things."


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