Word of the Day - Tronie

[debodun]

Tronie (noun) - an artistic work that depicts an exaggerated or characteristic facial expression.

Joos van Craesbeeck's painting "The Smoker" is an example of a tronie.

 

[RubyK]

Never heard tronie before. I must be a tronie. Right?

 

[Lavinia]

The word tronie is not in my dictionary so I am unable to construct a sentence containing it.

 

[Kaila]

In the field of Art History,
a tronie was from the 1600's or so, and they were never intended to be accurate portraits of someone, but were intentionally bizarre.

 

[Kaila]

Never heard tronie before. I must be a tronie. Right?

I love the modern, computerized version!

 

[Em in Ohio]

I was ambivalent about the movie "Tron," so I guess I'm not a dedicated Tronie!