A portrait is a portrayal of a person, usually showing the person's face (but not always). A portrait can be a painting, a photograph, an ink drawing, a sculpture or even a description in words or in a film.
The likeness of a person, painted, drawn, or engraved; commonly, a representation of the human face painted from real life.
Noun
any likeness of a person; "the photographer made excellent portraits"
Noun
a painting of a person''s face
Noun
a word picture of a person''s appearance and character
n.
The likeness of a person, painted, drawn, or engraved;
commonly, a representation of the human face painted from real life.
n.
Hence, any graphic or vivid delineation or description of
a person; as, a portrait in words.
v. t.
To portray; to draw.
Portrait
In portraits, the grace, and, we may add, the likeness, consists more in the general air than in the exact similitude of every feature.
Portrait
The likeness of a person, painted, drawn, or engraved; commonly, a representation of the human face painted from real life.
To portray; to draw.
Usage Examples
Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
It took the Metropolitan Museum of Art nearly 50 years to wake up to Pablo Picasso. It didn't own one of his paintings until 1946, when Gertrude Stein bequeathed that indomitable quasi-Cubistic picture of herself - a portrait of the writer as a sumo Buddha - to the Met, principally because she disliked the Museum of Modern Art.
I love prints of skulls and bones and have some taxidermy - a crow and a rabbit - to remind me of home. I like art and have a big portrait of Bjork.
When I was little, we had a Golden Book that had all these Disney characters in one portrait on the first page. My dad used to read from it every night. We'd play this game of find Pluto or find Donald Duck. He'd read us stories and do all the voices. Those are great memories.
There is something uniquely depressing about the fact that the National Portrait Gallery's version of the Barack Obama 'Hope' poster previously belonged to a pair of lobbyists. Depressing because Mr. Obama's Washington was not supposed to be the lobbyists' Washington, the place we learned to despise during the last administration.
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Other Usage ExamplesIt is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face.
I found it an interesting portrait of a marriage in exploring notions of how one partner supports the other, whilst not jeopardizing the greater good - which is the family.
It seems to be a law of nature that no man, unless he has some obvious physical deformity, ever is loth to sit for his portrait.
I used to try to draw my girlfriends. I think one of the most romantic things that anybody can do is draw a portrait of the person you love.
We know evolution happened because innumerable bits of data from myriad fields of science conjoin to paint a rich portrait of life's pilgrimage.
So, did I work with Warhol? I worked with him less on that play then I did on other things. He actually did a portrait of my rabbit and some other stuff. Warhol was definitely... Warhol.
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