Spanish Word of the Day Saturday, March 01, 2014 retrato noun: - TopicsExpress

Spanish Word of the Day Saturday, March 01, 2014 retrato noun: portrait Spanish and Latin American painters have created a great tradition of portrait painting, from El Greco to Picasso in Spain, and from Fernando Botero in Colombia to Frida Kahlo in Mexico. The famous museum in Madrid, Spain, El Prado, held a major exhibition called: El retrato español The Spanish portrait Just as in English, un retrato can be used in a non-literal sense to refer to a depiction or a portrayal of a time or place: El retrato español The Spanish portrait El libro es el retrato un de una época y sus personajes. The book is a portrayal of an era and its personalities. Of course, many artists like to paint not only retratos of other people, but also autorretratros, self-portraits. Frida Kahlo’s mysterious self-portraits are particularly famous, for instance, Autorretrato con mono Self-portrait with Monkey, that is in New York. El retrato español The Spanish portrait El libro es el retrato un de una época y sus personajes. The book is a portrayal of an era and its personalities.