Figurative mosaics share many themes with painting, and in some cases portray subject matter in almost identical compositions.
The way a disease is portrayed matters.
Despite its name, this is a vivid, free-stepping, high-colored painting that portrays its subject matter in almost entirely abstract terms.
"The criminal plan consisted of eliminating the charges that the Argentine courts had filed against the Iranian officials, and the best means that was found to clear those charges, provide immunity and portray the matter in the tidiest possible manner to a deceived nation was to sign the aforementioned agreement".
She says "Spencer holds a unique space in British Modernism, as an artist who pushed and tested figurative painting using different styles to portray various subject matters.
Its tongue-in-cheek subject matter portrays America as a land of broken promises.
Set to Prokofiev's Second Piano Concerto, "The Heart of the Matter" portrays incompatibility between the sexes through formal group motifs for 20 dancers: the women primly stalking, palms pressed together, like chic nuns, while the men indolently swagger, one arm swinging, like smug jocks.
Suffering, however powerfully portrayed, is familiar matter for contemporary art.
Throughout the evolution of his style, Macke generally remained faithful to Impressionist subject matter, portraying contemporary scenes of urban leisure.
But a matter portrayed by the I.R.S. on Friday as a little-known operation conducted in Cincinnati, largely out of the sight of Washington officials, continued to sprawl.
"I don't see any reason for this insult, do you?" Officially, the change was portrayed as a matter of practicality.
