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Drawing a portrait

United States, 1958
film

The artist, Eliot O’Hara, is here less concerned with problems of composition and style than with a basic approach to creating a likeness.

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Algorithmically related works from our collection by description:

Painting crowds of people

United States, 1956
Similarity: 78%

Painting shadows

United States, 1957
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Painting an abstraction

United States, 1949
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Oriental brushwork

United States, 1954
Similarity: 74%

Painting reflections in water

United States, 1947
Similarity: 72%

Brush techniques

United States, 1947
Similarity: 70%

Painting with calligraphy

United States, 1955
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Eye of an artist

Canada, 1956
Similarity: 69%

Elgar: Portrait of a Composer

United Kingdom, 1962
Similarity: 69%

Portraits in Dramatic Time

2011
Similarity: 69%

William Dobell

Australia, 1962
Similarity: 68%

Arthur Penn: the director during the filming of "Little Big Man"

United States, 1970
Similarity: 68%

The Portrait

United States, 1984
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Artists must live

United Kingdom, 1952
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Painting people

Australia, 1965
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The Portrait

United Kingdom, 1978
Similarity: 68%

A Portrait of Leonard Hutchinson

Canada, 1975
Similarity: 67%

Video self-portrait

Australia, 1971
Similarity: 67%
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