Word: portrait
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Collector Merle Armitage's huffing against Henry Koerner's art should not go unanswered. New insights always strike some people as "inexcusable." Koerner's Leontyne Price portrait seemed to me astonishing, disturbing, beautiful, profound...
...Metropolitan Opera's Soprano Leontyne Price, whose portrait was on the cover of the March 10 issue, has been undergoing the experience that happens to all cover subjects-the barrage of letters from readers all over the world. In a letter to Music Editor Richard Murphy, she said that most of the letters reflected "the feelings of kindness, dignity and respect that I myself felt on reading TIME'S cover story." Meanwhile, she has been scoring new triumphs at the Metropolitan Opera, reported this week in Music...
...disciple then added political ones. David was a passionate partisan of the Revolution; Ingres seemed wholly indifferent to the comings and goings of monarchies, republics and empires. He painted Napoleon as First Consul and Emperor, and when the Bourbons came back, he painted them too. He did a portrait of Louis Phillipe's oldest son, and during the Second Empire he turned out more Napoleons...
...idolized his chief counselor and then suffered him to be killed, Anouilh ignored too much that was vital in Becket-his great career as Chancellor, his shift from worldling to ascetic, his clashes, as Archbishop of Canterbury, with Henry. If Anouilh's Henry is not quite a full portrait either, it is for an Olivier a fat part-a touch too fat, for it hides Henry's bone structure. But Olivier catches him in a whole succession of picturesque moments and shifting moods. As against Quinn's clodlike vigor. Olivier's Henry has an easy swagger...
Breathless (in French). A formless but practically flawless cubistic portrait of the Frenchman as a young punk...