realistic portrait

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realistic
adjective
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/ˌrɪəˈlɪs.tɪk/us
/ˌriː.əˈlɪs.tɪk/
accepting things as they are in fact and not making decisions based on unlikely hopes for ...
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portrait
noun[C]
uk
/ˈpɔː.trət/us
/ˈpɔːr.trɪt/
a painting, photograph, drawing, etc. of a person or, less commonly, of a group ...
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His affectionate yetrealisticportraitof the players is unrivalled in hockey writing.
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Although his painting style spans from expressionism to surrealism, he specializes inrealisticportraitstudies.
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Here the writer leaves the region of safety and ceases to make anyrealisticportraitof the people about whom he is prophesying.
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He wanted to express a morerealisticportraitof his region and community drawn from personal experience.
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His early work included realistic portraits, which were followed by cubist and surrealist works.
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The murals range from surrealist works to realistic portraits.
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From this period come the earliest surviving panel portraits of monarchs, and royal manuscripts show a greatly increased number of realistic portraits of the monarch who commissioned them.
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Her surviving paintings show a gift for realistic portraits, including a self-portrait of a modern woman with short hair and the clothing and jewelry of the late 1920s.
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He was not only a dedicated artist of genre paintings and historical subjects, but especially in painting realistic portraits in which he excelled and had a good reputation.
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Realistic portraits of men and women of all ages were produced, and sculptors no longer felt obliged to depict people as ideals of beauty or physical perfection.
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