Word: portraits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...assigned-D for deep black, A for very light grey, etc. On the telegravure typewriters and linotype machines are corresponding characters-big D dots, tiny A dots, etc. A series of code phrases describes a picture line by line horizontally. For example, a line across the forehead in a portrait of George Washington might read "D7B3A6B4C2D8." A fast typer can compose a 3 x 2 in telegraving in ten minutes. The picture is "retouched" by reading its proof, correcting typographical errors. The finished block of type-dots is ready to print without further processing. ... Journalists on their way to newspaperdom...
...seen hanging in the position of honor at the museum in Manhattan-a gorgeous portrait of a medieval prince, at once beautiful and cruel. The head is perfection. A furry outer jacket partially conceals the crimson tunic with gold sleeves. Jewels gleam against the darker shades, simplicity sits elegantly upon the brighter colors. The complete history of the canvas is not known. What happened to it during the centuries of its "loss"? Until that is explained, scientists cannot be certain that this is a genuine Titian. What difference does it make? asked artists. It is itself rapturously beautiful. Romancers...
William Blake's work is shown in the books of Lincoln Kirstein '30. The portrait of Cowper in Hayley's "Life" of the poet, the illustrations of Young's "Night Thoughts", and the plates in Gays' "Fables", and Hayley's "Balladers", all by Blake, show clearly the art upon which his fame rests...
Just to tell you that the portrait of Sinclair Lewis on the cover of TIME, March 14 gives one the best possible insight into Elmer Gantry and the rest of Lewis' yammerings...
When he sleeps it is beneath a satin coverlet with a portrait of himself as a naked leper at the head of his bed. The very furniture is orchideous, inscrutable. There is a walled garden with very narrow gates, for Signor D'Annunzio hates fat men or women. Sometimes, so Gabriele D'Annunzio says, the shade of Franz Liszt enters and plays his certainly not mechanical piano until the poet is in an ecstasy. Sometimes, instead, come very charming women. Signorina Marie Melato, popular actress, was entertained at Gardonne while the pilgrims waited at Assisi last week, and later...