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A face frozen mid-thought so the dead can keep staring at the living.
means A representation of a person—usually the face and upper body—rendered in paint, photograph, or other medium, made to capture their likeness.
from From the Old French 'portrait,' the past participle of 'portraire,' meaning to draw forth or depict—built from Latin 'pro-' (forth) plus 'trahere' (to draw, pull). So a portrait is quite literally something 'drawn forth,' a face pulled out of a person and fixed onto a surface. The same 'trahere' fathered a whole family: 'tract,' 'trace,' 'retract,' 'extract'—all of them, in some sense, a pulling.
- eyes follow
- Flat painted gazes seem to track moving viewers
- mona lisa
- Has no visible eyebrows or eyelashes
- orientation name
- Vertical phone photos borrowed this artistic term
- power flex
- Kings commissioned them to look richer than reality
- self-portraits
- Van Gogh painted over forty of his own face
mona lisa — da vinci's 1503-1519 painting of lisa gherardini, louvre museum
nightwatch — rembrandt's 1642 group portrait of amsterdam's militia company
whistler's mother — james mcneill whistler's 1871 portrait of anna matilda mcneill