Word: portrait
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Portrait of Everyman...
...Congratulations to the artist who did the cover portrait of Bishop Pike [Nov. 11]. It is a veritable picture of the modern Everyman, torn by the anguish of contradictions of his own making. Pike as your artist indicates represents not an individual...
Just the logistics of assembling the nearly 1,000 works valued at $60 million were staggering. Jean Leymarie, Geneva University art professor and longtime Picasso friend, who undertook the task of amassing the works, insisted that the exhibition include Picasso's full range, from a finished academic portrait done when Pablo was 14 to landscapes as recent as last year. The Soviets lent nine cubist paintings, making it the first time-and probably the last-that the complete series of great cubist portraits could be seen in sequence. From the U.S. came 46 key paintings from private collections...
Unlike Rembrandt, who often made his patrons subservient to his art, Hals rarely betrayed his sitters who wanted themselves painted as they fancied themselves. His Portrait of a Man with Crossed Arms (see opposite page) summarizes the cocksure spirit of his time...
Poverty itself is both suffocating and ugly, and when its portrait is drawn by the victims, no one can doubt its reality. But there can be such a thing as too much detail, particularly if the details do not vary much. One rat bite can serve for a hundred. The assorted Ríoses are sometimes indistinguishable; the reader may find himself turning back to the chapter heading to see which one is talking now. He may get lost, too, in the endless procession of Ríos swains, lovers, husbands and cash customers, and in the steady passages between...