Word: portraited
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Chekhov, by Ernest J. Simmons. An absorbing if overdetailed portrait of the mercurial Russian doctor who became, without meaning to, one of the world's great storytellers and playwrights...
...bare plot outline: the story of a rich woman's affair with a gamekeeper. This has been put on film with relative case and with assured financial success. But it is not D. H. Lawrence's story. The movie version is not a tender love story, or the portrait of a woman being re-awakened to life, but merely a chronicle of fortuitous mutual lust...
Such an awful lot of celebrities live around the tony shores of Lake Geneva in Switzerland, and one young German photographer set out to snap them all. Among the least camera-shy in the chalet colony was Old Litterateur Noel Coward, 62, who obligingly posed for a seraphic portrait before a pair of huge gilt wings that perch above his fireplace. Coward was highly pleased with the result. "It is a pleasant thought," said he, "to know that I have a top-class photographer so much at hand...
...unexceptional still-life, without dates, signatures or certifications, be offered as Manets when the best you can say for them with certainty is that in a weak way they share certain characteristics of Manet's art? And when a painting is recognizable as a variation on a self-portrait by Van Gogh, yet is not above the technical level of an average copyist, can it really be defended as an original on no other documentation than its acquisition from 'Jean Neger...
...museum's president, Joseph B. Martinson, retired head of the coffee firm and a collector himself, acknowledges that the boundaries of folk art are hard to define. The artists range from the greatly talented Edward Hicks to a legion of traveling painters who could turn out a portrait in less than an hour for the price of $2.92. The freshness of the art. in fact, stems largely from its variety and degrees of sophistication. A wooden Columbia, all star-spangled-bannered, is a wonderfully flamboyant bit of jingoism. A large copper...