Word: portraits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wish to call your attention to the fact that the portrait of Archimedes (TIME, July 22) is not a portrait of Archimedes but a well-known painting by Rembrandt, called The Architect, No. 224 in the catalogue of 1888 of the Staatl. Gemäldegalerie at Kassel, Hesse, Germany...
Message in Oils. Older Artist (47) Siqueiros' paintings would have seemed "prominent" wherever they hung. Their blood-rich colors, cast-iron forms and gravel textures made them stand out as far as the smearing fist in his Self Portrait (see cut). Siqueiros' second entry was relatively calm-a green and gold description of three muscular, writhing gourds-but it was not quite so innocuous as it looked. In Spanish, calabazas (gourds) is a vulgar insult when spoken without a smile. Explained Siqueiros: the three calabazas stand for the three Government schools in charge of the competition...
...comedy of youth and age it is an enduring delight; it is also a fascinating, vividly contemporary study of leadership. Shaw has examined the complexities of cynicism and benevolence, megalomania and selflessness, intuitiveness and hard reason, passive resistance and calm brutality, which combined to make the soldier-statesman. His portrait shows Caesar to be a man as far beyond mere knowledgeability as a Hitler or a Stalin-and considerably more civilized...
...full day of it. Along with his art, he occupied himself in learning seven languages, riding his Spanish horses every afternoon, and discovering everything there was to know about ancient sculpture, cameos, and Italian architecture. He crowned a career of half-secret diplomacy (interlarded with profitable royal portrait commissions) by temporarily reconciling Philip IV of Spain and Charles I of England. The master seemed to have all the minor gifts too-equanimity, charm, industry and good looks...
...graphic novel of life on the Icelandic uplands, circa 1900-1920, is the Book-of-the-Month Club's choice for August and, according to the publisher, an "epic in the grand tradition of great fiction." It may be less expansively described as a half-sympathetic, half-scornful portrait of the Icelandic peasant mind, done with broad "epic" touches and special political intent. For Author Halldór Laxness uses his fine portrait, which is drawn in almost Holbein-like detail, as the text for a two-part sermon on the sins of capitalistic Iceland and the promised blessings...