Word: portrait
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...hard to believe. He can be very absent-minded." MARIE CORNELIUSEN, mother of artist Trevor Corneliusen of Olympia, Washington, who chained and padlocked his feet together for a self-portrait while camping in California's Mojave Desert and had to hobble for 12 hours to find help after he lost...
...King's final days comes vividly to life in Time's exclusive excerpts from At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years 1965-68, the final volume of Pulitzer prizewinner Taylor Branch's three-part history of the civil rights movement and its most charismatic leader. In this portrait of King as a man under siege, his passion and his rhetoric reach new levels of grace...
...other laugh. "Take the arrival at the airport in Bangladesh," says Bill. Given that there was a string of terrorist bombings in the days before their arrival, the military was out in force. And the tarmac was festooned in decorations to welcome the Gateses--including, bizarrely, a massive oil portrait of each. "She saw the army," says Bill, laughing. "She said, 'Hey, there's an army out here.' And I said, 'Yeah, wait until you see the picture of you. It's not too good.' It was just gigantic! You know, Mao would have been so jealous!" Some couples have...
...most striking pieces in "End of Time," the career retrospective of legendary Japanese photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto now running at the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo, is a portrait of Japan's controversial World War II and postwar Emperor, Hirohito. The black-and-white, 1.5 m by 1.2 m print is astonishing in its crisp detail. Hirohito is seated and wearing full morning dress, and every crease of his jowl, every fold of his trousers, every line on the knuckles of his fingers is finely articulated. It is almost as if the Emperor is sitting there, in the museum, 17 years...
...bloodthirsty wild were popular in his day, and the source material on show includes an album he owned called Wild Beasts with "around 200 amusing illustrations of the life of animals with instructive text." Along with his eccentric riffs on savage nature, Rousseau applied his unique vision to portraits, allegories and landscapes. War (1894) is a large work with a simple message: war is bad. A woman rides sidesaddle over the dead through devastated terrain, waving a sword and a blazing torch. It is unquestionably weird, but the artist has used shape and color, especially the dead black of ravens...