Word: portraited
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...close-up portrait of an elderly man in a wheelchair and a baseball cap intrigues the viewer and poses questions as well. His lips and his chin and his clenched right fist are indeterminate and open to interpretation. His eyes are clear and asymmetrical, but it is unclear whether they are haunted, surprised or amused. Context beyond the suggestion of a nursing home in the background might have helped to narrow down these emotional options; however, the inability to categorize the man’s expression so quickly prevents the viewer from dismissing the man himself as a kind...
...Szafran, Avigdor Arikha). But turn to the subject of photography, and the man who defined "the decisive moment" - the instant when an image should be captured - professes his famous indifference. Truth be told, Cartier-Bresson has returned to his trademark Leica cameras for a couple of assignments - his 1994 portrait of France's beloved priest of the poor Abbé Pierre is in the retrospective - but he essentially retired from his peripatetic photographic career nearly 30 years ago. He stopped, he said, when a longtime mentor, the Greek-born critic and art publisher Teriade, told him that he had gone...
...includes the people who looted his lavish three-story riverside home down to its marble walls. The looters took everything they could, including fuses from the fuse boxes. But they left documents that, as I learned during a walk-through of the building late last week, paint a colorful portrait of the unhappy eldest son of Saddam, who hasn't been seen since reportedly entering the restaurant obliterated by U.S. bombs in the al-Mansur neighborhood...
...Portrait of the Artist as an Undergrad
John Singer Sargent had a singular talent for swathing his portrait subjects in an exotic and provocative mystique...