The phrase "abstract portrait" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a type of artwork that represents a subject in a non-representational or stylized manner, often focusing on shapes, colors, and forms rather than realistic depiction.
Example: "The gallery featured an impressive collection of abstract portraits that challenged traditional notions of representation."
Alternatives: "non-representational portrait" or "stylized portrait".
Recent mill creation: I just made an abstract portrait of my wife out of aluminum and wood.
Ray Johnson's mixed-media collage "Marianne Moore's Hat" from 1973 is an abstract portrait of the American poet, in which she is represented by proxy.
The work that really scandalised Americans in 1913 was Mademoiselle Pogany, an abstract portrait of one of his lovers, the Hungarian-Romanian painter Margit Pogany.
Bringing the show full circle, Jutta Koether did an abstract portrait drawing of Mr. Phillips and gave it to him just because she felt like it.
There are some pretty cool designs, including one that plots an egg's nutrition label on its shell, intricately detailed geometric patterns and even an abstract portrait of Nikola Tesla.
But her abstract portrait of Duchamp — a thrusting spike and drooping arrow — catches her passive-aggressive subject to a T. Clara Tice (1888-1973) was a kind of Dada "it" girl.
She makes these wonderful abstract portraits.
By documenting their materials, the photographer Matthias Schaller creates abstract portraits of van Gogh, Matisse, Picasso, Twombly and more.
His paintings – abstract portraits – hang on the wall opposite us, "all ears and no mouths because he said mouths are the most difficult thing".
These, along with abstract portraits and compositions like Landslide and Tumbling Forms, mark a departure from Condo's previous work involving drawing, pastel and charcoal like those in his 2014 London shows at Skarstedt and Simon Lee galleries.
Ms. Bourgeois had a solo show of paintings in New York in 1945 and her first exhibition of sculpture — an installation of tall, polelike figures that she intended as abstract portraits of family members and friends — four years later at the Peridot Gallery, at which time she gave up painting for good.
