What term refers to the field of portrait making?

• A. Portrait
• B. Portraiture
• C. Carving
• D. Realism

Answer: (B)

Portraiture is the field of portrait making—the practice and genre dedicated to creating likenesses of people across media such as painting, drawing, sculpture, and photography. A single work is a portrait, while portraiture refers to the broader field and approach artists use to capture appearance, personality, and mood. Realism is a stylistic approach that can appear within portraiture, aiming for lifelike accuracy, but it’s not the term for the field itself. Carving describes a technique (sculpting) and isn’t the name of the portrait-making field, even though you could carve a portrait.