Word: masks
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...that evokes the mystical qualities of his religious works. The portraits in the second room were created as tools of state which depict images of ideal monarchs. Philip’s wife, Queen Margarita, wears a sumptuous dress in her portrait, painted with painstaking detail, while her face is mask-like. Gone are El Greco’s expressive brush strokes, replaced with a new artistic naturalism that focuses on the realistic representation of fabric folds and shadows.Velazquez’s first work in the exhibit is a psychologically intense portrait of the famous Spanish poet Luis...
...Stable Boy quickly picked up a pitchfork to mask the bulge in his trousers...
...departure of his longtime girlfriend, (Kristen Bell) for another man. He (and we) will soon discover that her best acting is the real-life kind, wherein she fairly convincing portrays a nice and sympathetic young woman when, in fact, she?s hiding an icily ambitious nature under that mask. Before that happens, we have the pleasure of watching Peter crack up - can?t work (he?s a television composer), can?t sleep, can?t eat, can?t tidy up his apartment. Off he goes to a resort in Hawaii, doing his best to forget his troubles. Naturally, Sarah is shacked...
...life, Paley makes a final return to poetry, and the medium seems appropriate to her task. In her hands, the ability of poetry to distill itself into one thought or one emotion becomes a powerful tool; her thoughts, stripped of the context or fictitious garnish that would mask them in a short story, become uncompromisingly honest.Although simplicity is a key component of the volume, Paley is still a very technically competent poet. The poems have no commas or periods, giving the reader the sense that the collection represents Paley’s internal monologue, a continued sequence of thought without...
...able to take full responsibility for whatever “Love the Future” turns out to be may or may not help their cause. With a level of production that is almost too good to be true, the band’s studio effects still cannot mask less-than-genius songwritting skills, causing their songs to occasionally sound more like masterful remixes than the stunningly original music they’re eager to boast about...