Portrait vs Painting - What's the difference?
portrait | painting |
A painting or other picture of a person, especially the head and shoulders.
* Sir J. Reynolds
(figuratively) An accurate depiction of a person, a mood, etc.
(computing, printing) A print orientation where the vertical sides are longer than the horizontal sides.
Representing the actual features of an individual; not ideal.
(lb) An illustration or artwork done with the use of paint(s).
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*:"My tastes," he said, still smiling, "incline me to the garishly sunlit side of this planet." And, to tease her and arouse her to combat: "I prefer a farandole to a nocturne; I'd rather have a painting than an etching; Mr. Whistler bores me with his monochromatic mud; I don't like dull colours, dull sounds, dull intellects;."
(lb) The action of applying paint to a surface.
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(lb) The same activity as an art form.
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As nouns the difference between portrait and painting
is that portrait is while painting is (lb) an illustration or artwork done with the use of paint(s).As a verb painting is
.portrait
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Alternative forms
* pourtraict (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- In portraits , the grace, and, we may add, the likeness, consists more in the general air than in the exact similitude of every feature.
- The author painted a good portrait of urban life in New York in his latest book.
Antonyms
* (print mode or selection) landscape * (print mode or selection) profileAdjective
(-)- a portrait''' bust; a '''portrait statue
