Portrait and Work

Portrait

Portrait noun - A vivid representation in words of someone or something.

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Work and portrait are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Work" instead a noun "Portrait".

Nearby Words: portraiture, portraitist

Work noun - A literary, musical, or artistic production.

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Portrait and work are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Portrait" instead a noun "Work".

Nearby Words: works, working, worked, workable, worker

old	old portrait	old work
good	good portrait	good work
nice	nice portrait	nice work
similar	similar portrait	similar work
Other adjectives: normal, usual, single, actual, animated, famous, new, final, last, different, literary.

Andy Warhol once said: "Hergé's work had a tremendous influence on my work, as much as Walt Disney did." Warhol and Hergé met later in life and as a tribute Warhol painted Hergé's portrait in several styles, rather than Tintin's.

Source: One Of Us / Other Pencilnecks
Frenhofer no longer paints, and among his unfinished works is a portrait of a nude woman, "La Belle Noiseuse", for which he had used his wife (Jane Birkin) as a model.At the urging of his agent, Frenhofer agrees to resume his work on the nude portrait.

Source: Film / La Belle Noiseuse
It's also worth noting Ignatius is often considered to be a self-portrait of Toole, who went into a depression after no one picked up his "amazingly brilliant" piece of work.

Source: Crapsack World / Literature

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