The phrase "artists portray" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing how artists represent or depict subjects, themes, or emotions in their work.
Example: "In her latest exhibition, the artists portray the struggles of urban life through vivid imagery and powerful symbolism."
Alternatives: "artists depict" or "artists represent".
How do today's artists portray poverty?
The artists portray themselves as an animated Adam and Eve, complete with fig leaves.
At this consumerist time of year, it is worth looking at some of the ways artists portray poverty.
Since his career took off in the 1970s, he has had an outsize influence on the way artists portray fashion and stardom.
The result, "The Charged Image," was intended to "create a dialogue for discussion" about how artists portray the body and sexual subjects, she said.
While modern artists portray these animals walking incorrectly 57.9percentt of the time, prehistoric cave painters only made mistakes 46.2percentt of the time.
Nineteenth-century songwriters and artists portrayed the telephone as "Cupid's Messenger".
The artists portrayed the women as sensual, depicting most in dresses with low-cut bodices, and contrasting their skin against rich, flowing fabrics.
Medieval artists portrayed him as a slavering brute, deploying a racist arsenal of Jewish and African stereotypes to contrast him with the lily-white Jesus.
The Belvedere Torso reveals that ancient Greek artists portrayed not only the perfect heroic body, but also the body suffering, tragic, heaving with pathos.
Because of an editing error, a front-page article on Saturday about the popularity of comic books in Japan that unfavorably portray Chinese and Koreans omitted the full name and background of a person who was quoted as saying that Japanese artists portrayed Russians in similarly unfavorable ways during the 1904-05 Russo-Japanese war.
