Word: portraited
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...reader, a shade skeptical and several shades amused, is reminded of another self-portrait Sutton says he made. It was a plaster cast of his own head, cunningly painted and landscaped with cuttings from his hair. This marvel, sculptured surreptitiously in a Pennsylvania prison, was supposed to take Sutton's place in his cell bunk on the occasion of a jailbreak. But the cell block was searched and the extraordinary head found before Sutton could test its effect. The artist does not seem to have been unduly discouraged. He had, after all, astonished his audience...
...surfside ruminations make pretty thin material for a movie, but the real problem with Lifeguard is that Petrie and Koslow do not know what to think, much less what to make of Rick's dilemma. It seems as if they are trying to do a little pencil portrait of fear and failure, but their hero's softheadedness is contagious. Rick's final decision, which is to be a success on his own suffocatingly modest terms, is conveyed with a hint of melancholy but more than a suggestion of approval. Lifeguard is winningly acted-by Elliott and, especially...
...When John Singleton Copley (1738-1815) went to Italy, he also struggled to resolve them in his first European picture, an Ascension (1775), which must be one of the quaintest homages to Raphael ever made. But in the same year he met two wealthy American tourists and painted their portrait...
Pretty well lost at sea, according to the analysis of New York Psychiatrist Leslie Farber. In this collection of essays, Farber dubs our times the age of the disordered will and he proceeds to draw a wickedly accurate and amusing portrait of contemporary Everyman, caught between his twin illusions of total potency and abject impotence...
...cultural irony," the best example of it is unconscious. It takes the form of a stick of unpainted wood, three-quarters of an inch square and about four inches long, glued to an otherwise white, empty wall in the U.S. pavilion and entitled Portrait of Marcia Tucker, 1976. It was made, if that is the word, by a 34-year-old New York artist named Richard Tuttle. Here, apparently, is the end of the American cultural imperialism that has been such a topic of recent discussion in the art world: the work evaporated completely, nothing to look at, only...