Word: portrait
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...role in this picture, shows that he deserves a better one. As a French industrialist who stays in Paris to collaborate with the Nazis, he has moments in which he almost makes the picture seem important. But the film, which starts as if it were going to be a portrait of a traitor, soon becomes just another melodrama...
...biography published in 1942 was Douglas Southall Freeman's massively academic Lee's Lieutenants ($5), first of a projected three-volume study of the men who fought the battles of the South's lost cause. Most amusing was Hesketh Pearson's G.B.S. A Full Length Portrait ($3.50), which recorded many unfamiliar details of George Bernard Shaw's childhood and lovelife. Others were Esther Forbes's conscientious, overlong Paul Revere and the World He Lived In ($3.75); Hugh 1'Anson Fausset's erratic but illuminating Walt Whitman ($3); Poetess Muriel Rukeyser...
Said the late great French art critic Theodore Duret: "There is art and there is official art ... and there always will be." Most portrait-painting shows are filled with handsome, sycophantic canvases, obviously "official." Last week Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art put on a huge, unusual show containing 270 mostly "unofficial" portraits (done usually for the artist's own pleasure, without commission). Visitors had a chance to see what some of the most talented painters alive do with portraiture when free to be as sincere, malicious, foolish, irregular or what not as they like. Items...
...Russian Marc Chagall (TIME, Oct. 26) showed an eight-foot, 1917 portrait of himself astride his wife's shoulders, and giggling. Under it was a 1941 photograph by Manhattan's George Platt Lynes of Art ist Chagall, still giggling, behind a bouquet of flowers...
...French Painter Balthus (Balthasar Klossowsky) offered a wicked portrait of his friend French Painter André Derain in his dressing gown one bilious morning-after-the-week-before...