Sentence examples for portrait as a from inspiring English sources

(In 1490, Leonardo described the portrait as a vehicle for expressing "the motions of the mind").

Lachaise looked at Egyptian statues when he sculptured Kirstein's portrait as a naked man striding.

That explanation came in 1981; three years later, he described Self Portrait as "a joke".

Queen Elizabeth II, who had just celebrated her Golden Jubilee, was depicted in a portrait as a chimp.

She had planned a party, he said, where she would give the portrait as a surprise to her husband.

You won't learn from this exhibition what Picasso actually did to the portrait as a way of seeing.

Self-portrait as a Sphinx, 1880.

It's not just his self-portrait as a screaming ghoul.

So is Douglas Gordon's self-portrait as a Jekyll and Hyde character.

Kokoschka, in Britain, proudly painted his "self-portrait as a degenerate artist".

The show is as much a self-portrait as a retrospective.