Word: portraitists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first time since it was painted in 1926, let out a cry of anguish, posed for a photographic version, finally calmed down enough to remark, "Well, it's better to be remembered as hideous and funny than not to be noticed at all." See ART, Psychological Portraitist...
...painted the portrait of Professor Auguste Forel, famous Swiss psychiatrist, Kokoschka made his subject look 20 years older, with his right hand drooping strangely, his right eye blind. Forel and his family protested that the portrait was a poor likeness-but four months later, just as though Psychological Portraitist Kokoschka had foreseen it, the unlucky professor suffered a stroke that paralyzed his right side...
...season's major exhibitions of American art show that American painting, like the country itself, has had its several ages. The 18th century, which gave birth to the nation, was Protestant, pragmatic, rationalistic. Once when a customer complained that Portraitist Gilbert Stuart had failed to capture his wife's elusive beauty, the artist flushed and grated: "What damned business is this of a portrait painter? You bring him a potato and expect he will paint a peach!" Then the romantic spirit of the 19th century added its profound effect. Toward the end of that century, Albert Pinkham Ryder...
...typical sample of Philadelphia Portraitist Beaux's work...
...Portraitist Morse had once hoped to "be among those who shall revive the splendor of the 15th century." The son of a stiff-necked Yankee pastor, he conceived the notion that art can be purely "intellectual." While Morse was at Yale, President Timothy Dwight regularly admonished his students against all kinds of fun. "Recollect," Dwight would cry out, "that you are to give an account of your conduct at the last day." Samuel Morse felt quite at home in this stringent atmosphere. Along with painting, he dabbled in electricity, which alarmed his father. "Your natural disposition,'' warned...