Sentence examples for close portrait from inspiring English sources

"Freedom Faith" is a close portrait of how of the civil rights movement made nonviolence its religious philosophy and political practice.

His backdrop is no less exotic for its realism, and his close portrait of the relationship between one benighted woman and the child who depends on her is exquisite, enlarging the story beyond the frame of its epoch.

Tip these figures upside down and you get a pretty close portrait of male gamers; 66percentt of which are employed and 10percentt unemployed.

Starting Friday, two CHUCK CLOSE portraits are in view at SOTHEBY'S (72nd Street and York Avenue, (212 606-7000).

Otto, best known for the novel "How to Make an American Quilt," is certainly mistress of her craft, though I prefer her close portraits to her snapshots.

I usually make very close portraits showing only some combination of the body, chest and legs.

Bolofo photographed close portraits of the workers with their heads bent, hands sewing and feet pressing pedals.

Carol Guzy, Nikki Kahn and Ricky Carioti of the Washington Post for their up-close portrait of grief and desperation after a catastrophic earthquake struck Haiti.

Like his last book, The Yacoubian Building, Chicago is an up-close portrait of an Egyptian community, although this time its members are not the residents of a Cairo apartment block but the students and faculty members of the University of Illinois Medical Centre.

While making this work, he said, "I was thinking about erotic drawings, from Klimt to Egon Schiele," as well as Marcel Duchamp's last great work, "Étant Donnés" (1946-66), and Gustave Courbet's 1866 "Origin of the World," an up-close portrait of a woman with her legs spread, an enigmatic assemblage that presents a female mannequin in a similar pose.

But his romantic closing portrait of the Brooklyn Bridge today has a telling sleight of hand.