The phrase "astute portrait" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a depiction or representation that is insightful or perceptive, often in the context of art or character analysis.
Example: "The artist's astute portrait of the politician revealed the complexities of his character and the nuances of his public persona."
Alternatives: "insightful depiction" or "perceptive representation."
Harman's psychologically astute portrait deftly bridges Charlotte's world and her work.
This isn't a memoir; it's a terrifically astute portrait of Leonard Cohen by a biographer who deeply understands him.
The best of them is Carl Rollyson's "Lillian Hellman: Her Legend and Her Legacy" (1988), a critical but astute portrait.
Happily, this remarkable début is inclined toward romance, in a giddy boy-meets-girl (twice) fable that evolves into an astute portrait of a relationship.
The result is an emotional and intellectually astute portrait of communities long neglected and misunderstood by American literature.
A psychologically astute portrait of a woman's cycle of addiction, the ebb and flow of her life around it, and her own hilarious, bittersweet and brilliant inner monologue through it all. .
Currently receiving an East Coast premiere at 12 Miles West Theater Company, the play benefits from hilariously funny, psychologically astute portraits of the homicidally bent Bradleys by the actors Tricia Burr and Lenny Bart.
Much of this volume's narrative amounts to a repurposing of material Mr. Ellis has laid out in enterprising earlier books like "Founding Brothers," and in absorbing, psychologically astute portraits of individual members of the revolutionary generation including George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and the cantankerous John Adams.
An astute group portrait of the thinkers whose ideas shaped contemporary Asia.
But Elizabeth Nunez layers "Anna In-Between," a psychologically and emotionally astute family portrait, with dark themes like racism, cancer and the bittersweet longing of the immigrant.
But the relationship between Ms. Plunkett's Barbara, on whose decision rests her uncle's future, and Mr. DeVries's Benjamin is as acute and astute a portrait of agonized family guilt and resentful dependency as I've seen in years.
