Word: portraits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Middle Age of Mrs. Eliot, by Angus Wilson. A portrait of a muddled Widow Britannia by a first-rate caricaturist...
...Maja (Titanus; United Artists) refers to the title of the celebrated nude painted by Spain's great Francisco Goya y Lucientes (1746-1828) and identified by sentimentalists-though not by art historians-as a well-buffed study of his mistress, the Duchess of Alba. A reproduction of the portrait flashes onscreen briefly along with the titles, but this is just about the last note of authenticity in what may be the most inept movie biography since Cecil B. DeMille tore Cleopatra from the pages of history...
Appearing thin and weary, Dulles nonetheless waved off Ike's offer of a place on a sofa-"No, no, no"-and sat on a chair while the group posed for photographs under an Eisenhower oil portrait of Winston Churchill. The visit to Dulles, planned to last only 30 minutes, stretched on for nearly an hour as the leaders of the U.S. and Britain got down to the crisis of Berlin and West Germany. Indomitable John Foster Dulles drove home a vital point: let's talk about East-West negotiations but not deals-and any negotiations must...
...mountains as his horizon. He studied under Boucher, came to fame in Paris, was a friend of Madame du Barry and American Ambassador Benjamin Franklin. Almost nothing more is known of Fragonard's life. With typical breeziness, he signed himself "Frago." and painted himself just thrice. One self-portrait is in the Louvre, a second in his native Grasse, and the third (see color page), newly acquired, in San Francisco's Palace of the Legion of Honor...
Mark Twain once remarked that he especially enjoyed meeting in books men whom he had "already met on the river." Portrait painting, at its best, gives that kind of enjoyment also. The insights into character that it affords both confirm and expand the experience of people. Lately this enjoyment has been far to seek, since modern artists are more concerned with expressing their own personalities than exploring other people's. Yet a few brilliant portraitists remain-among them ebullient Boris Chaliapin. whose survey of people and places he has known opened at Manhattan's Hirschl & Adler Galleries last...