Word: portraited
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...knows his reputation for being hypersensitive to criticism -- and last week went out of his way to gush over how much he enjoyed Dana Carvey's impersonation of him on Saturday Night Live. But he also took pains to stop visitors to his 17th-floor office suite before a portrait of himself, commissioned and autographed by former Vietnam prisoners of war, so he could * say, "I don't think the POWS would have given me this if they thought what I had been doing for them was a publicity stunt." Like a salesman whose primary product is his own reputation...
Moreover, his art -- another Shakespearean parallel -- always testifies to the fact that when a great artist breaks the mold, the result still pays homage to the mold itself. There can hardly be a more intensely moving portrait of a woman's naked body than his Bathsheba with King David's Letter (1654). At root it is a Titianesque conception, heir to those sumptuous Venetian nudes; but Rembrandt avoids idealism, suffuses the real imperfect body with thought and a sense of moral reflection, re-creates the structure of flesh in terms of an amazing directness of "rough" brush marks. We think...
...ordinary -- a bit silly, a bit rash, bright but not brilliant, decent but not saintly. He is a hero anyone can emulate. The children, talented and engaging, have the same down-home appeal, in contrast to the adult villagers and visiting officials, who seem contrived. This is not a portrait of an artist as a young man, but a portrait of a young man sharing with the next generation the art of everyday living and learning. Every society needs such do-gooders to come to the rescue, working for the common good with uncommon goodwill...
Unfortunately, David Gutmann is less real as second lieutenant Ralph Clark, a self-righteous stick of a man who reforms and is made human by the play which he directs. Gutmann is not convincing as the man who used to kiss the portrait of his wife a thousand times before he went to bed, and declared: "I'm not a convict. I don't sin"--nor is he as the man who has an adulterous affair with a pretty convict...
...wave of Black filmmakers enters the motion picture industry, more and more movies depicting ghetto life are reaching the big screen. Despite the artistic success of directors such as spike Lee and John Singleton though, many filmmakers still fail to present a credible, sympathetic portrait of inner city life. Dealing with life, love and moral issues in the ghetto is hard--and even the best offerings often seem cliched, parodies of what they wish to portray...