Half Length

Word HALF LENGTH
Character 11
Hyphenation half -length
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Half Length"

What do we mean by half length?

A portrait that shows only the upper half and hands of a person. noun

Of or relating to a half-length portrait. adjective

Of half the full length. adjective

Of half the full or ordinary length; showing only the upper part of the body, as a portrait.

Of half the whole or ordinary length, as a picture. adjective

Representing only the upper half of the body adjective

A portrait showing the body from only the waist up noun

Abridged to half its original length adjective

Half the length of a horse.

A portrait or photograph that depicts only the upper half of the subject.

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The word "half-length" in example sentences

Also impressive are the portraits of well-fed burghers, such as the 1643 half-length figure of Paulus Verschuur, confident in his stylish hat, crisp collar and voluminous suit; a bare hand, gloves, sheer cuffs, a silken sash, curling hair and alert features are teased into existence with assured, staccato brushstrokes. ❋ Karen Wilkin (2011)

There is another self-portrait, similar in quality as well as in apparel and attitude to the one in the Norton Simon Museum, except that it is a half-length rather than a close up. ❋ James Gardner (2011)

Originally made as a three-part series for French TV, it is five-and-a-half hours long in its full form (though a half-length feature is also on release in the UK), exhaustively researched and often exhilarating to watch, as we track the fledgling revolutionary, charmingly portrayed by Venezuelan actor Edgar Ramírez, through countless countries, attacks, hijackings and escapes, to his eventual arrest in Sudan in 1994. ❋ Steve Rose (2010)

Oberlin's painting is now installed at the National Gallery, Washington, as the focal point of a miniature exhibition, "Larger Than Life," paired with the gallery's recently acquired ter Brugghen "Bagpipe Player" 1624, a robust half-length figure that exemplifies the secular side of the artist's practice as brilliantly as "Saint Sebastian" does the religious side. ❋ Karen Wilkin (2011)

Venetian painters had pioneered the poetic narrative scene involving two or three half-length figures, but in the "Gypsy Fortune-Teller" and the "Cardsharps" both 1595, Caravaggio gave the genre a streamlined, streetwise spin—Mr. Graham-Dixon calls it "low-life drama." ❋ James Hall (2011)

Good things come in small formats to start the show—a tiny oval "Portrait of a Man" (circa 1627–30) by a follower of Franz Hals, a miniature half-length self-portrait by Gerrit Dou (circa 1645). ❋ Judy Fayard (2011)

Romans is expected to decide later this week whether Shackleford, who finished fourth at the Derby before edging Animal Kingdom by a half-length in the Preakness, will go, according to a New York Racing Association official. ❋ Mike Sielski (2011)

(AP) Tanda beat Switch by a half-length Sunday in the $100,000 Railbird Stakes for 3-year-old fillies at Hollywood Park. ❋ Unknown (2010)

These subjects were often depicted half-length and close up, cast in dramatic contrasting light and shadow "chiaroscuro" in Italian and set in a shallow, stagelike space - all pictorial innovations adopted from Caravaggio. ❋ Unknown (2011)

But he brought these "ignudi" crashing down to earth, revamping them as a sequence of sexily insalubrious half-length boys, interacting equally with spectacular still-life elements and with the viewer. ❋ James Hall (2011)

A splendidly robotic half-length shows a bare-headed Cosimo right-side-on in state-of-the art armour; 25 versions exist – a small army. ❋ James Hall (2010)

Everyone loved the mop of black hair, the half-length trousers, the bright Dr Martens and the cry of "Hiya pals", but you could spend hours figuring out exactly what made Gerard Kelly such a physically funny pantomime star. ❋ Mark Fisher (2010)

The exhibition begins with several iconic Picassos, including the well-known half-length figure of a woman in a white kerchief balancing two enormous loaves of round peasant bread on her head. ❋ Karen Wilkin (2010)

Eschewing literary subjects for motifs that were purely visual, Renoir also began to paint half-length views of solitary women engaged in quotidian pursuits, and a long wall is devoted to these intimate, tranquil canvases. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Leceile is only 3lb higher than for that half-length defeat and is said by her trainer, William Haggas, to have progressed well through the winter. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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