Word: portrait
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...photograph but a portrait...
...more or less well-authenticated Rembrandt oils, the Metropolitan chose only the 16 finest, surrounded them with a comprehensive collection of etchings and drawings. They included the Old Woman Cutting Her Nails, the portrait of Rembrandt's son Titus, the bulbous-nosed Self Portrait showing the artist at 54. The exhibition proved again that Rembrandt was far and away the greatest of those few painters in history who have rivaled writers like Balzac and Dostoevski in their ability to delineate the individual human soul...
...hearty, life-loving Rembrandt Harmens van Rijn had made himself a precocious reputation as the finest society portrait painter in rich, 17th-Century republican Amsterdam. A proud, flamboyant personality, he charged Amsterdam's solid burghers, soldiers and surgeons high prices for his solemn, cloudy canvases, married a woman of wealth, spent money like a drunken lord on paintings, prints, armor, tapestries and pearls. Some of the ruff-necked portraits Painter Rembrandt did during this early period were as prim and vapid as their complacent cheese-eating subjects. But on the side he prowled Amsterdam's ancient docksides...
...clock one morning. As the delegates sat down around OPM's long walnut conference table, a sense of urgency filled the room. From the side walls blazed posters: TIME IS SHORT; UNITED WE STAND. From the far end of the long room, a new portrait of Winston Churchill gazed down, stern and steadfast...
...modern artists, Joyce was the most bitterly uncompromising, the most torturously responsible to his vocation; as a result, he was "the most self-centered of universal minds." His obsessive subjects, the city and the artist, bracketed the whole conflicted matter and spirit of modern civilization. A Portrait of the Artist is self-centered, naturalistic; and Levin tells a tantalizing little of its earlier 1,000-page version, which was far more so. The multitudinous data of Ulysses vibrated like cold made-lightning between the cathodes of the most fluoroscopic symbolism and the most granitic naturalism. In Finnegans Wake naturalism...