portraiture
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“It was unlike anything else I’d seen at the time, that combination of color and large in portraiture,” Tucker said.
From New York Times
The Gagosian exhibition is meaningful, Sargent said, in part because it expands the notion of what Black art can be at a time when Black portraiture has become the market rage.
From New York Times
The pair later moved to Reno, Nev., where Mr. Zaidi worked as a director of photography for a studio portraiture company.
From New York Times
Mr. Schumaker’s Memory Project has been using portraiture to foster connections between American youth and peers in more than 50 countries for 17 years; he took the initiative to Afghanistan four years ago.
From New York Times
For much of Neel’s six-decade career, her interest in figurative painting was considered anachronistic and dated, a failure to keep up with the 20th century’s artistic preoccupations: Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art, postmodernism — anything but portraiture.
From New York Times
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