Word: portrait
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...different, and on the whole far better, is the Lady Macbeth of Judith Anderson (Family Portrait, the Gielgud Hamlet). A characterization, not a recital, its power in the earlier scenes is flawed by overacting, but steadily improves, leaps the last and highest hurdle magnificently. In the sleepwalking scene, Actress Anderson, with her sick, half-strangled voice, her tottering, sleep-locked footsteps, above all in the terrifying movement of her "bloody" hands, really conveys the ruin of a once dauntless and unflinching nature...
...bluish portrait of a massive, flabby, seminude, varicose-veined prostitute primping herself before a tumbledown Victorian table with a crumpled dol lar bill on it, caused a storm of protest several years ago when it was exhibited. But art connoisseurs had to admit that its lugubrious, shadowy surfaces, which shone like crushed tinfoil, were unparalleled in modern painting...
...good to Willie Bioff. They sent him and his wife to Europe and South America. Joe Schenck lent him $100,000 to buy an alfalfa farm, gave him $8,000 after a good evening at poker, gave him also a sun cabinet to sweat away his belly and a portrait inscribed "To my friend Willie." It was wonderful...
Kokoschka, a high priest of Europe's Expressionist school, paints and draws with desperate passion eerie, flayed-looking nudes, wild-eyed portrait sitters, muddily fantastic landscapes, grotesque figures of saints and demons done in coarse, guttural lines and screaming colors. To connoisseurs, his brooding fantasies are as exciting as the paintings of the Expressionists' idol, Vincent van Gogh...
...Logan prize ($500) went to Manhattan Sculptor Oronzio Maldarelli for a smooth-cheeked limestone portrait head. Chicago's Ivan Le Lorraine Albright got a $500 prize for a queer, meticulously detailed picture of the door of a mortuary chamber. He called it That Which I Should Have Done...