Titles like "Unfolding Worlds" and "Life's Portrait" indicate the overall theme of maturation and self-discovery, but the most artistically appealing piece, "Forest View," a tiny but exquisite abstraction of tree trunks, looks outward for its stimulus.
MAN'S obsession with the horse is at least 17,000 years old: among the celebrated cave paintings in Lascaux, France, there are 364 equine portraits, indicating that Paleolithic humans were already fixating on the animal when they weren't busy inventing stone tools or agriculture.
Marble portrait sculpture would have been painted, and while traces of paint have only rarely survived the centuries, the Fayum portraits indicate why ancient literary sources marvelled at how lifelike artistic representations could be.
One is a small copy of a self-portrait that indicates that Hals himself was rather nondescript.
Mr. Godinez and the others, then, the emerging portrait of them indicates, wound up more committed to a different kind of violent routine.
The premise, as with Hot or Not, is simple: users flip through "profiles" of other users (consisting mainly of a portraits) and indicate whether they think the people in the profiles are attractive or not.
Five years into the tenure of the first African-American president, however, America is even further away from having that type of conversation, the Portraits of American Life Study indicates.
Though having your portrait in the mix indicates a certain level of celebrity, the medium is not for the vain.
Regarding the contest to replace Obama in the White House, to select the next man or woman to contemplate its many portraits of Lincoln, he indicates a willingness to fight the good fight.
