Word: portraits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Grant Wood once won three firsts in a row) was a somber doorway that could have opened into a house on almost any Main Street in the land. California's winners, hung in a monster open-air cabana over beds of dazzling yellow marigolds, were low-keyed oil portraits with little sunshine in them. California cautiously separated the conservative sheep from the modern goats, awarded two sets of prizes. First prize (conservative) went to 31-year-old Chet Engle for his satirical self-portrait Tarquin. First prize (modern) went to 39-year-old Sueo Serisawa, for his portrait...
...about it is lavishly doubled or tripled. There are two prodigies and two frustrated opera-singer parents kicking them up to stardom, two comics (Jules Munshin and Keenan Wynn) and two imperturbable renegades from the fine arts (Ethel Barrymore and Jose Iturbi). Among the players, only Thomas Gomez (whose portrait of a tenor warming up his tonsils spoofs both tenor and script) seems to be having any fun in the machine comedy...
Champion. Kirk Douglas in a full-length portrait of a middleweight heel (TIME, April...
Champion. A glossy, sardonic portrait of a middleweight champ, with Kirk Douglas (TIME, April...
Champion. A glossy, sardonic portrait of a middleweight champ, with Kirk Douglas (TIME, April...