Word: portraited
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with an eloquence as powerful as Dostoevsky's The Possessed. Here is Lenin's face, not the likeness that God gave him at birth, but the likeness of the twisted, humorless, mad, rationalized world he built for his followers. That cramped, despotic teaching hand is the perfect portrait of a Communist textbook or a Party meeting...
...Thank you for the priceless portrait of the Pieta at the World's Fair. This marvelous work, and all other great works of art, belong to mankind. Now thousands of Americans who otherwise could not have known this deep experience can view it. It is fitting that it should be on display for all who pass by at the fair...
Standish Meacham Jr., Allston Burr Senior Tutor, presented a portrait of Master Owen to the House as the gift of the Senior Common Room, undergraduates, and alumni of Winthrop House...
...Hearst's New York Journal-American. The assignment did not suit him, although he showed occasional flashes of style. One of his best cartoons, done in 1950 after the Russians had accused the U.S. of starting the Korean war, was deliberately run upside down. It was a portrait of Stalin exhibiting a scroll of poetry...
Scornful as he was of this work, Sargent's portraits almost never flattered, almost always illuminated personality to the surprised satisfaction of the sitter-although in the case of the famed Madame X, Sargent was so daringly personal in depicting her titian tresses and her fetish for lavendar face powder that the exotic sitter's true name (Judith Gautreau) was concealed from Victorian society. "Sargent" meant "portrait" -work high in esteem during his lifetime, low after his death in 1925 when he became confused with less talented imitators, high again now that most of the portraits have found...