Sentence examples for figure portrait from inspiring English sources
Paintings of her daughter are the first pieces viewed; a reclining figurative composition floating above the entry table and a full figure portrait centered on the first panel, greet visitors.
Six centuries, from the 14th to the 20th, are covered by a knockout roster of artists, from the Venetian-born Lorenzo Lotto — whose forceful study of an authoritative figure, "Portrait of a Bearded Man" (about 1530-35), is a highlight — to the Americans Chuck Close and Richard Diebenkorn, represented by, well, representative works.
Mr. Sugimoto came to the wax figure portraits through his longstanding fascination with dioramas.
You'd think the artist conceived of each image by asking herself, 'How can I capture the female body using the least amount of lines possible?' Some of her figure portraits look like they were made without even lifting up her pen.
Four years later comes a folk-style, full-figure portrait of "The Mayor of Almolonga" in native costume.
A large whole-figure portrait of a beautiful woman in a brilliantly patterned dress rounds out the image of a painter on the cusp of American Modernism (Johnson).
The works here include figures, portrait busts and terra cotta reliefs, as well as an array of wood-cuts, drawings and a few paintings; they present a softer, more personal side of Storrs's sensibility.
"Impossible!" Kerviel's resume, which circulated on the Internet on Friday, provided little more than a stick-figure portrait of the man: He liked judo and sailing, he spoke English and he had computer programming skills.
Contemporary competition, in the lead for now, numbers Jeff Koons's polychrome sculptures, Daniel Oates's jocular figures, the portrait figures of the Nigerian artist S. J. Akpan and the coffins of the Ghanian carver Kane Kwei.
In the ensuing decades he painted many elaborate, whole-figure portraits of children in juvenile finery.
Here Ms. Cranston presents five life-size, whole-figure portraits of herself as a piñata.
