Word: protraits
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...French impressionist--his childhood in Montmartre, his experiences in World War I, and his films. "A friend visiting my home once asked if I wasn't ashamed that I had no portrait of my father. 'But I have a picture of his flowers,' I replied. This is the protrait on my father...
...Jamini Roy, a Calcutta "primitive" who quit his highbrow protrait business to paint flat, bright figures like the ones which decorate Bengali pots and dolls. Jamini (rhymes with Tammany) makes his own paints from rock dust, mud, chalk and tamarind seeds, keeps a back-roomful of helpers grinding out copies of his wasp-waisted festival dancers, friendly tigers and almond-eyed Christs...
...case of art it is easy to spend an afternoon in the Fogg Museum and become acquainted with a number of masterpieces, for instance, the prints by Durer, Holbein, or Rembrandt. The work of Gainsborough who painted the now famous "Blue Boy" can be seen in his protrait of Count Rumford, recently bequeathed to the University. Anyone who wishes to know the works of art of some of these great men can do so in a much shorter time than it is possible to become acquainted with an equal number of the masterpieces of literature or music...
Before an artist can be definitely engaged to paint the protrait of Dean Shale, the committee must secure some idea of the amount which can be raised from members of the class. All Seniors are therefore asked to contribute at once; and, since the painting will cost $1,500, every man should contribute as much as possible...
Next in importance is an original Venetian painting in oils, characteristic of the work of Tintoretto. It is a protrait of a procurator of St. Mark's, in his senatorial robes...