Portraiture - Dictionary definition: the art of creating portraits. Graphic and detailed description, especially of a person.
Styles of portrait painting have changed over the centuries and decades, as evidenced in the video below:
A couple of links to portrait artists from my own archives:
Pietro Annigoni
Augustus and Gwen John
And...
Bringing us right up to date:
Kehinde Wiley's recent portrait of Barack Obama and Amy Sherald's of Michelle Obama.
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