Word: depiction
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Such etchings sold, and thus encouraged, Hopper began to paint oils again and experiment with watercolors. He was also drawing from the nude at the Whitney Studio Club in Manhattan. The works of this period show he was a good draftsman who could depict a naked woman with an earthy sensuousness that Renoir might have approved. In the early '20s on a trip back to the New York School of Art, he became interested in Art Student Josephine Verstille Nivison, a small, vivid, thirtyish woman whose volubility and quick wit were the exact opposite of Hopper's quiet...
Reviewers were wont to acclaim Forman's earlier filmed anecdotes for exposing the drabness of life in an industrial socialist state. His method: to depict characters whose development is short-circuited by necessary compromise to the social structure. That Forman would make the same kind of film in the United State indicates that his vision is more suited to the acceptance of a restrictive state than criticizing...
Lean did, however, provide compensations. He constructed his picture fastidiously: each scene attains its own symmetry, and is skillfully cantilevered with narrative thrust to the next scene. The film rarely lags. One of the more obvious examples of Lean's technical prowess is the sequence depicting Lawrence's initial desert journey and his growing friendship with his Bedouin guide. It is composed of strict horizontal pans flatly cut by two-shots or close-ups of the camel-mounted pair. When panning with them. Lean cuts both on movement and desert shapes so that not only is the motion shown...
...broad terms, there was little disagreement about the guilty verdict. The prosecution's case had been orderly, fact-filled, conclusive. The defense had been disorganized and virtually devoid of convincing evidence. Psychiatric testimony, the jurors said later, hurt the defense case rather than helped it. Attempts to depict Krenwinkel and Van Houten as good girls from wholesome backgrounds only indicated to the jury that they had less reason to rebel than Atkins, who had suffered through a troubled adolescence. The death sentences bothered some, like the pious John Baer, who had to do some delicate rationalizing: "In the trial...
...religious image of St. Ivo, the National Gallery's painting is of unparalleled historical interest: it would be the first portrait in the history of Western art with a landscape in the background. Moreover, says Christie's, "it is the first portrait in European history to depict the sitter engaged in a normal everyday activity -in this case, reading a missive." The painted lettering is illegible and thus gives no clue to the man's identity, but the scar is identical to that shown on other known portraits of Philip...