Word: portraited
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...just opened a substantial new exhibition, divided between the visual arts and documentary materials. Among the former is a selection of African sculpture and objets d'art from the collection of Kenneth Patton. More important, however, are the items of American provenance. Two of these are huge polychrome portrait quilts crafted by a group of southern Negroes who migrated to California...
...second quilt is a portrait of Frederick Douglass (1817-1895), perhaps the greatest Negro American of the 19th century. Despite frequent floggings, he taught himself to write, escaped from slavery, and took his surname from Sir Walter Scott's Lady of the Lake. He made his first abolitionist speech here in Massachusetts at the age of 24, and eventually rose to hold several government posts. He wrote one of the greatest autobiographies ever penned by an American, the first edition of which is on exhibition; and the U.S. Post Office this spring honored his sesquicentennial by issuing a special commemorative...
...outstanding in a cast of seasoned performers. Hayley's father-in-law on film is her real-life father, John Mills; beery-voiced and bleary-eyed, he once again demonstrates his ability to breathe life into any character he plays. This time he gives a brilliant full-length portrait of a proletarian father who tries to reach his children but who cannot touch them without giving hurt. At the end, when his son asks his advice for the first time, the old man breaks down and cries. The scene might have been merely maudlin. Mills makes it still another...
Games Children Play. By contrast, the U.S. pavilion's A Time to Play, commissioned by the USIA, demonstrates a promising new technique and talent. Employing three screens simultaneously, Director Art Kane offers a portrait of the games children play. With the vision of a painter, he observes a group of kids as they run exuberantly, following the leader who jumps from screen to screen. He also explores the varied geometric patterns of hopscotch courts, and shows a group of boys fighting each other on a pyramid-like peak to be come. "King of the Hill." Kane's wittiest...
Oblongs & Squares. The Ontario pavilion subdivides its screen into as many as 15 geometric oblongs and squares, like a Mondrian painting, then shatters it into shards of indeterminate shapes that sometimes cooperate, sometimes compete with each other. As a portrait of a province, the film is less than full length; the footage of sailboats, jets and forests all but disappears beneath the glittering surface of the show's broken-screen technique...