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...flaming red square-within-a-square symbolizing the cosmic force of the Bolshevik Revolution. But by the late 1920s, the Left Front movement, which included filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein, had turned to a more accessible and representational art. Before long, Gustav Klutsis and Alexander Gerasimov had perfected the stiffly staged portraits - as reverential as old Russian icons - that mythologized Lenin and glorified Stalin. The familiar Gerasimov portrait of Stalin, looking kindly as a schoolmaster with outstretched hand and twinkle in his eye, found its way into millions of Soviet homes. Thus was mass art invented with a simple switch of artistic...
...show moves to Boston in February. Vuillard is the most comprehensive exhibit ever dedicated to the artist, with 230 paintings, drawings, photographs and theatrical posters produced between the late 1880s and the 1930s. The young artist's red-orange beard provides a perfect Nabi foil in the Octagonal Self-Portrait that opens the show, paired with shocking yellow hair to frame his half-shadowed face. The small Elegant Woman is a masterful bit of minimalism - a column of black skirt, a blob of pink blouse and a swish of black hat with carnation-red sprigs against a brilliant yellow...
...class portrait, one notices the similarities. But in this group, Cash stood out--not just with his grave voice and lifer's stare, but with the somber production of his songs. The lyrics Cash wrote for his signature hit I Walk the Line express an unexceptional sentiment: because I love you, I behave. But the thumping bass line and Cash's delivery ("I keep my eyes wide open all the time") make the mood part predatory, part paranoid. Even the upbeat love story Ballad of a Teenage Queen has a spooky side; it sounds as if it's beamed from...
Summers may have been scared off by Blow’s first book, American Son, A Portrait of John F. Kennedy, Jr, which was critically panned...
...neighborhood. Bombay authorities have typically focused their search for Islamic terrorists in the city's Muslim-dominated suburbs, such as Mahim or Jogeshwari. Though it has a larger-than-average Muslim population, Chimatpada is a mixed neighborhood; just a few doors down from the Hanifs' home hangs a portrait of Jesus. Yet here in this congested slum, nobody appears to have noticed anything amiss as the Hanifs allegedly amassed their massive cache of explosives. "We mind our own business," says Mohammad Faisal, a tailor who lives close to the Hanifs' house. "Once the doors are closed, we have no idea...