Word: portraited
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...interests are anything but narrowly linguistic," Kelleher added. Dunn's life work is a literary history of the 12th century. He has divided his research between medieval literature and modern Celtic folk cultures. Besides a number of articles and translations. Dunn has written two full books: Highland Settler: A Portrait of the Scottish Gael in Nova Scotia and The Foundling and the Werwolf: A Literary-Historical Study of Guiliamume de Palerne...
...cover painting, Artist Robert Vickrey studied about 100 detailed photographs of the skies to work out the background for his portrait of Schmidt. The whirling mass in the upper righthand corner is a spiral galaxy. To the left is a very bright star as seen through an optical telescope. In the right foreground, Vickrey renders a quasar, which may be recognized by the small jet stream spilling out from it at right. In showing Schmidt's head with its reflections receding into space, the artist tried to "give the feeling of infinity, the impression of an echo or radio...
...portrait of the traveling monk Zemmui, a member of the Tendai Buddhist sect, which ranks as a Japanese Giotto. It is a masterpiece of the 11th century, when the Fujiwara shoguns reigned, encouraging the arts as the Medicis did in Italy. The unknown artist profiles the Indian-born patriarch, a posture seldom used before, and gives him a Japanese face. As a light touch, the great priest's shoes appear below his chair, casually kicked off rather than neatly lined up to conform to Japanese etiquette. The picture is incredibly shallow spatially; the chair legs appear...
Least Performance by an Actor: Stephen Boyd, who literally wrings his hands in moments of crisis. His portrait of a snaky, sniveling contender at the Oscar countdown should be shown exclusively in theaters that have doctors and nurses stationed in the lobby to attend viewers who laugh themselves sick...
...warm memories of family: his father, the great Russian basso Feodor Chaliapin, was a close friend of Rubinstein's in Europe many years ago. Between them, for reasons only they really know, painter and pianist decided on the rather unusual garb of red coat and vest for the portrait. And why is the piano green? "You don't have to see it green," said Chaliapin. "It is black; perhaps it was an artistic liberty I took. Perhaps I thought that in that light, with the red jacket, the piano looked more green than black. The same...