Word: portrait
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...quiet hands rest loosely, and inappropriately, on chair arms ornamented with bundled rods in bas-relief: symbols of Rome's imperial power. The dramatic spotlighting, which the sculptor fiddled with for seven years after his Lincoln was installed, lends mystery to what is essentially a competent, straightforward portrait; Daniel was never one to take liberties with his subjects. "He was all for tradition and a grave, measured style," says daughter Margaret. "He could no more have gone in for 'self-expression' than he could have walked naked down Fifth Avenue...
Fuseli thought of himself simply as "Poetical," and he once complained that he had "little hope of Poetical painting finding encouragement in England [because] the People are not prepared for it. Portrait with them is everything." Yet while he lived, the pyramid of Fuseli's fame seemed imperishable...
...realistic portrait would show a tall (6 ft. 4 in.), ruddy, 200-lb. man of 66 who can still get into his World War I uniform. The haughty eyes, ice-water blue, would window an inordinately shy, insufferably proud, incredibly prejudiced mind, acutely aware of its heritage...
...English rival of Punch once printed a cartoon of a man struck with amazement, and labeled it: "Portrait of a Gentleman Finding a Joke in Punch" Like some Englishmen, many Americans who have seen 105-year-old Punch are rarely amused by its jokes, even after laborious explanations. But last week, with its home circulation at an alltime high (184,000), London's most ancient & honorable humorous weekly confidently invaded the U.S. market, intending to be laughed at, not laughed...
Probably the main trouble is that Portrait in Black literally talks itself out of being exciting enough. All the characters are so frightfully conversational that they eventually slow down the pace and thin out the action...