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- Dictionaryportraiture/ˈpɔːtrɪtʃə/
noun
- 1. the art of painting or taking portraits: "Ingres is a master of portraiture"
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noun [ U ] art specialized uk / ˈpɔː.trɪ.tʃə / us / ˈpɔːr.trɪ.tʃɚ / Add to word list. the act or art of making portraits. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Art history & artistic movements. abstract expressionism. aesthetic. anti-modernism. cubism. cubist. expressionism. expressionistic. minimalistic. modernism. modernist. montage.
The meaning of PORTRAITURE is the making of portraits : portrayal. How to use portraiture in a sentence.
noun [ U ] art specialized us / ˈpɔːr.trɪ.tʃɚ / uk / ˈpɔː.trɪ.tʃə / Add to word list Add to word list. the act or art of making portraits. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Art history & artistic movements. abstract. aesthetic. anti-modernism. anti-modernist. cubist. esthetics. expressionism. expressionistic. minimalistic. modernism.
Portraiture definition: the art or an instance of making portraits. . See examples of PORTRAITURE used in a sentence.
The process of painting a picture or taking a photograph of a person is called portraiture. If an art exhibit only includes pictures of faces, you can describe its focus as portraiture. Portraiture is the art of making a portrait, which is a close study of one person.
A film or book that is a portrait of something describes or represents that thing in a detailed way: Her latest novel paints a very vivid portrait of the aristocracy in the 1920s. Fewer examples. an exceptionally fine portrait. a lifelike portrait of the queen. The portrait was finished after only three sittings.
portraiture. (pɔːʳtrɪtʃəʳ ) uncountable noun. Portraiture is the art of painting or drawing portraits. [formal] It makes you rethink what portraiture is and could be. Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner’s Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers. Word Frequency.
