He added: "There's this two-dimensional, three-quarter-portrait quality to all the pictures you see in every magazine.
Table 5 QBSD measurement of the same images reconstructed with and without pixel expansion, m=4 QBSD Symbol Square values T Letters Baboon sign Portrait Zebra Quality Very Very rank good Good Fair good Good Poor Size invariant Reconstruction 0.80ruction 0.78 0.78 0.73 0.83 0.77 0.70 Reconstruction With expansion 0.82 0.82 0.82 0.82 0.82 0.82.
And Mr. Mailer used his copious talents — a quick, skewering eye; a gift for the cameo portrait; bat-quality radar for atmosphere and mood; and blustering, bellicose prose — to capture the American spirit as the country lurched from the civil rights and antiwar demonstrations of the '60s into the Watergate era of the '70s.
Deep, heavy clouds loom over them, and her wide-brimmed hat and black coat pulled tight give the portrait an otherworldly quality.
Departing from his traditional rosy portrait of the quality of life in New York City, Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani yesterday acknowledged several areas of recent slippage in city services that he said demanded immediate attention, including slowing police response times and unkempt streets and parks.
When Duveen had the painting, Mr. Christiansen and Mr. Gallagher said, the portrait's informal quality was not necessarily considered as commercial as a full-blown old master so the dealer "tidied it up," as Mr. Gallagher put it, or painted over parts to make it look old-masterish.
Each potential clinical outcome has strengths and limitations and probably cannot serve as a standalone measure, but taken together they provide a more nuanced portrait of RA quality of care.
"You get an artisanal-quality portrait instantly, perfect for a society that craves instant gratification," he says.
Bookstores in Hong Kong, which are insulated from mainland control, offer portraits of varying quality — the most reliable include "The New Biography of Xi Jinping," by Liang Jian, and "China's Future," by Wu Ming — but most are written at a remove, under pseudonyms.
Henry's courtiers live on in Holbein's portraits, but the quality they all share is an expression of wariness appropriate for a milieu dependent on the regal mood of the day.
Using a fairly basic hand drawing and coloring technique that we call Digital Ink, we are able to provide you with an amazingly high-quality portrait.
