Word: portraited
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...heard clearly on Jordanian television last week as King Hussein benignly received the embraces, one after another, of 265 P.L.O. guerrillas who had just arrived in his country after a 20-hour trip from Beirut via Cyprus. The guerrillas responded eagerly to their warm welcome, bearing aloft a portrait of Hussein that they had found in one of the rooms at the Mafraq airbase where the homecoming took place. "Long live King Hussein!" the guerrillas cheered resoundingly...
...appearances are anything, the 17th century certainly seems to agree with Faye Dunaway, 41. As does her near typecasting in the role of heroine-bitch. Hard on the stiletto heels of her portrait of Joan Crawford in Mommie Dearest, Dunaway is playing the Margaret Lockwood part in a remake of the saucy 1945 film, The Wicked Lady. In this version, to be released next spring, Dunaway plays Lady Barbara Skelton, a country lady of leisure by day who hits the road as a highwaywoman at night. Her part is decidedly wicked-but with a difference. "I've always played...
...beauty of the self-portraits would scarcely endure a decade. Soon Soyer was accenting the oddities of his features, while adding elements of costume that gave some of the pictures an air of caricature. His ears stood out more boldly and grew pointier, while a cone-shaped hat made him look like a solemn-eyed Chico Marx. When Soyer produced vast New York City street scenes in the late 1950s, he painted himself in a business suit, shirt and tie and posed, immobile, amid the crowds that passed through his pictures. In 1959 he pulled his glasses onto his forehead...
...century or more of desuetude. His picture is modeled after Hommage à Delacroix by Henri Fantin-Latour, who in 1864 lined up seven artists, including Manet and Whistler, and three writers, including Baudelaire, who had been Delacroix's admirers. Fantin-Latour then judiciously posed them beside a portrait of the great French Romantic painter. The composition is as simple as the relationships. Soyer, on the other hand, chose a much more difficult situation to compose. He selected ten realist artists for his Homage, including Edward Hopper, Jack Levine, Leonard Baskin, Reginald Marsh and himself. Also portrayed was Soyer...
Soyer's most successful pictures are his portraits and figure studies. Among the most impressive paintings at the Hirshhorn is his 1980 Paula Hondius, a portrait of old age. This painting of a shapeless body seated in an angular director's chair at the light-struck center of the canvas is a triumph of Soyer's unsentimental realism...