Word: portraited
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seen in a display of 236 oils, watercolors and drawings, assembled from collections in America and Europe, now at the Detroit Institute of Arts (see color pages). "British Masterpieces," which will be shown at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, pays little more than lip service to the aristocratic portrait and the studied landscape, the established prides and prejudices of English art. Instead, the era's sense and sentiment is often best il lustrated by the casual sketch, the minor masterwork by the relative unknown...
...FESTIVAL. "Dylan Thomas: The World I Breathe." John Malcolm Brinnin, Thomas' biographer, narrates a portrait of the Welsh poet in still photographs, recorded excerpts from Thomas' works and interviews with friends...
Leslie obviously means his portraits to be as challenging to others as the act of painting them is for him. His own self-portrait is a mixture of honesty and defiance. "If a person stands in front of you," he points out, "with his hands in his pockets and his shirt open, someone can stick a knife in his stomach." Thanks to Leslie's technical mas tery, the painting captures both his sullen antagonism toward the world and, at the same time, makes him look as innocent and as vulnerable as any of Pearlstein's coldly viewed nudes...
Other pieces work toward universality from even humbler beginnings. I Pity the Poor Immigrant, chanted to a tune that is as basic as one of the late Woody Guthrie's Dust Bowl ballads, is a melancholy portrait of a misanthropic, malcontented wanderer "who passionately hates his life and likewise fears his death." The album's title song, John Wesley Harding (who "was never known to make a foolish move") is an oldtime saga about a kind of Nietzschean super dream...
...hundreds of psychological portraits of war figures, Macmillan thus characterized Mussolini's successor, Marshal Badoglio: "Honest, broadminded, humorous. I should judge of peasant origin." It might stand also as a fair self-portrait of the grandson of a Scots crofter...