Word: portraited
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Robert Vickrey's cover portrait of Lincoln has me weeping. I gasped to see such an alive and compassionate painting, and I cry because Lincoln is dead...
...both singular and plural. The story was written by Henry Grunwald, and edited by Champ Clark. They had the help of three researchers, Margaret Quimby, Martha McDowell and Mary Vanaman, and numberless correspondents in their forays into history and into contemporary attitudes toward the individual. As for the cover portrait, Artist Robert Vickrey looked at just about every available Lincoln photograph and painting, and found none entirely suitable. He created his own from his impression of them all, and from the Lincoln in his own mind's eye. We had asked only that his Lincoln be a serious...
Vogue, she claims, has not changed since she took over. But the models look, to some, more noticeably feminine, the clothes distinctly more sexy, and the current issue's living-color portrait of a full-breasted, naked girl supine on a beach seems certainly new. To Dee-ann this is "simply an evocation of the FEELING of salt and air; MY GOD, you'd think people's lives would be so FULL they wouldn't even notice...
Here was lust and love, birth and creation, hell and despair; and each emotion showed not only on the faces but in every muscle of each arm and leg. The portrait busts seemed timeless, as if the sculptor knew no theme that was not eternal. The Auguste Rodin show at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art was near perfection-the superb work of a giant superbly installed. The public responded by joyously wallowing in the incredible vitality of bronze and stone bursting with life, of figures that writhed, embraced and entwined themselves. The critics were all superlatives...
...beginning a portrait, she may, as any abstract expressionist might, start anywhere-the feet, the head, even the background. What she is after is not an exact likeness "like the right kind of nose, but rather, character resemblance." As she explains it: when someone sees a familiar person in a flash of light, he does not recognize the person feature by feature but by the total impression, the bearing, silhouette, posture or some dominating characteristic. In her portrait of Art Critic Frank O'Hara, on view at Manhattan's Graham Gallery last week, the face is painted...