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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 followFlat painted gazes seem to track moving viewers
mona lisaHas no visible eyebrows or eyelashes
orientation nameVertical phone photos borrowed this artistic term
power flexKings commissioned them to look richer than reality
self-portraitsVan Gogh painted over forty of his own face