Word: portraits
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Unfortunately, The Enigma of Arrival, Naipaul's new autobiographical novel, suffers from a surfeit of description and fantasy, leaving one bored instead of touched by its detailed portrait of the English countryside in decay...
Until she started a love affair with Brantley, that is. From the moment the two start sleeping together, Slater's portrait of a successful working woman crumbles into the standard role of sexy sidekick. Instead of using her brains to save the company, Christie ends up kissing Brantley when he lands the CEO chair. She is reduced from a strong, sassy character into a one-dimensional sexual tool...
Percy extends the metaphor to man. We all drink the water. We're all zonked out on our separate somas. But Percy's kiddie-porn portrait shocks without edifying. The metaphor, a valid one, is too sensationally packaged. Why stoop to conquer? Why exploit to elevate? Percy's better than this...
Konstantin Korovin's works are a good example:in "On the Seashore in the Crimea" (1909) and"Portrait of F.I. Chaliapin" (1911) he avoids anysense of illusionistic depth, but uses broad,multi-directioned brushstrokes and flat,juxtaposed bright colors to give an impression ofthe atmosphere of a summer...
...Portrait--Sackler Museum, Harvard (to April...