The phrase "arresting portrait" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a portrait that captures attention or evokes strong interest.
Example: "The artist's latest exhibition features an arresting portrait that draws viewers in with its vivid colors and emotional depth."
Alternatives: "captivating portrait" or "striking portrait".
And then there is Parmigianino's beloved "Antea", an arresting portrait of a beautiful young woman (pictured).
Whyte nevertheless presents another, arresting portrait — of the emerging power of the press at the end of the 19th century.
Time is blurred in this complex and visually arresting portrait of a family and country living in the shadow of the past.
The latter novel, an arresting portrait of Indonesia's struggle for nationhood, delights in obscenity: no topic is spared from its bloodthirsty brand of satire.
There are those stunning Goya etchings and, later, an arresting portrait of the head of a Greek woman by Eugène Delacroix.
To judge from "True Blonde at Home" (1999), an arresting portrait on view at the Whitney, bimbos do have inner lives and deserve our respect.
So, forsake the selfie for visually arresting portraits that develop your photographic journey.
Through Friedlander's lens, people in their everyday environments are transformed into arresting portraits, and the banal features of roadsides, storefronts, and city streets become vivid scenery.
Also at the NPG, a few arresting portraits in the annual BP Award – albeit among others less notable – make the free exhibition worth a look (to 15 Sept).
Music photographer Scarlet Page, daughter of Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page, has taken arresting portraits of Gary Numan, Frank Turner and Professor Green which have a strikingly blurry effect.
Well worth a visit to see her arresting portraits of teenagers and schoolchildren taken over the last 10 years mainly in rural areas of the Balkans, Turkey and Caucasia.
