Word: portrayals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...play, more than the acting, that is inadequate. Taken as a whole, the story is confusing, at times almost wild. Heavy Irish brogues hardly improve the clarity. Instead of being unified, therefore, Shadow of a Gunman emerges as a series of scenes in which various characters portray themselves...
...early inspiration, the semi-abstract holiday bread loaves made by Sardinian women. For his motifs Nivola picked four common aspirations: the clasped hands of prayer, conflict of good and evil, family unity and the outward-giving hands of charity. Asked why he did not do the obvious and portray the four chaplains, arms linked, on the Dorchester's sloping decks, Nivola replied: I think TV or the movies can tell stones better. I wanted to give people something they could think about...
...about that point, one night last week, Sadler's Wells Star Margot Fonteyn ceased to be a ballerina and became the bird she intended to portray. The ballet: Firebird, dreamed up in 1910 for Diaghilev's Ballets Russes by the late, style-making Choreographer Michel Fokine and style-shaking Composer Igor Stravinsky...
...child Mary installed as a handmaiden in the temple as a thanksgiving offering by her parents. According to the Apocryphal Book of James: "And Mary was in the temple of the Lord as a dove that is nurtured; and she received food from the hand of an angel." To portray Mary the artist used gentle modulations of beige, blue and gold, which achieve the soft tones of tempera painting. Little effort was made to indicate perspective, but the turning movement of the figures, the flowing robes of Mary and her handmaiden and the swirling movement of the angel break away...
...pricked the bubbles he blew, fastening on the frivolous, pompous and stupid personalities inside the fine clothes of his noble sitters. Like the naked emperor of the fable, they seemed not to notice. Charles IV made him court painter and gave him a carriage. Occasionally Goya was commissioned to portray a beautiful woman, which enabled him to exhibit a warmer side. Friends who sat for him got off lightly; he could still admire...