How to Use portraiture in a Sentence

portraiture

noun

• The museum is exhibiting portraiture from the late 19th century.
• One of the roles of portraiture is to anchor you in history.
  — Françoise Mouly, The New Yorker, 13 June 2022
• At the time, most modern artists ran from portraiture, but not Pearlstein.
  — Samantha Baskind, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Jan. 2023
• That manner comes off, here, as only one of his many aspects of self-portraiture.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 26 Apr. 2022
• There’s so much time and care invested in [portraiture].
  — Allison Noelle Conner, Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2023
• Leadership and portraiture have long gone hand in hand in Western art.
  — Adrienne L. Childs, CNN, 7 Sep. 2022
• Gump now does sign commissions and pet portraiture around town.
  — Kelsey Ables, Washington Post, 19 Aug. 2022
• Then there’s the fact that Sultan’s sometimes staged portraiture is exquisitely composed in a way that the production isn’t.
  — Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 17 Feb. 2023
• The tradition of self-portraiture is about unpacking the layers of the self and one’s surroundings.
  — Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2021
• Dating from the 17th century to the present, the section rewrites history to highlight the beauty of Black portraiture.
  — Los Angeles Times, 14 Dec. 2022
• The book is elegantly written, in a brisk style that plays to Ms. Goldstone’s strengths in portraiture and the theatrical set-piece.
  — A. Wess Mitchell, WSJ, 28 Jan. 2022
• The royal brothers cannot even be viewed side by side in portraiture, with a 2010 painting of the pair no longer on display in the National Portrait Gallery.
  — Victoria Murphy, Town & Country, 8 Sep. 2023
• Among the show’s many examples of portraiture are works in which Black figures are shown alongside their white enslavers.
  — Karen Rosenberg, New York Times, 21 Dec. 2023
• The show reflects the range of portraiture and the ways the art form has been used to discriminate and enforce hierarchies across gender, race and class.
  — Steven Vargas, Los Angeles Times, 13 Sep. 2023
• How does your art interact with the rich history of African portraiture?
  — Chiara Bardelli Nonino, Vogue, 20 Sep. 2022
• Jack Davison is a British photographer known for his black-and-white portraiture.
  — Susan Dominus, New York Times, 3 Mar. 2024
• And not all but a good portion of them deal with portraiture in a really interesting way.
  — Stephen Mooallem, Harper's BAZAAR, 10 Feb. 2023
• The painting appears in a small section of the show devoted to portraiture, where the descriptions of the artists confirm one’s sense that the young Danish painters were not the happiest campers.
  — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 3 Feb. 2023
• The works depict themes of love, growth and mystery and range from Howard’s portraiture to Chatmon’s blend of photography and paintings about Black childhood.
  — Steven Vargas, Los Angeles Times, 26 July 2023
• Her work, a mixture of painting and portraiture, is a regal reflection of Blackness.
  — Jeneé Osterheldt, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Dec. 2021
• First, the resulting portraiture of Monk, who speaks much more and is seen in much fuller interaction with the filmmakers, is far more detailed and complex.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2023
• In Erdem, as in royal portraiture, poetry and power live side by side.
  — Ian Malone, Vogue, 21 Sep. 2023
• Display a small sculpture or memento on an art shelf and hang a canvas print, portraiture or typography art on the wall.
  — oregonlive, 16 Jan. 2022
• Cleopatra was a frequent subject of portraiture in the 19th century.
  — Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Sep. 2022
• By 2008, the definition of portraiture had expanded to include video and film.
  — Roger Catlin, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Nov. 2023
• My Policeman is by no means the first film to use portraiture as an erotic, narrative-driving device.
  — Louis Staples, Vogue, 29 Oct. 2022
• Performances from the ensemble grow more refined as the play goes, its lens narrowing in from would-be stereotype to something more like portraiture.
  — Naveen Kumar, Variety, 23 Nov. 2021
• For all the disarming intimacy of his portraiture, Disfarmer was by most accounts a chilly presence in the studio.
  — Eren Orbey, The New Yorker, 13 July 2021
• Corsage serves as an antidote to this kind of classic royal portraiture.
  — Tyler Coates, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Dec. 2022
• What connects them is an emphasis on portraiture and landscapes.
  — ELLE Decor, 21 Oct. 2022

Last Updated: 28 May 2024