Word: portrayed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lotto was a 16th century forerunner of Degas in France and Eakins in America. Like them, he tried to portray not just the skull beneath the skin, but also the brain beneath the skull. He was by turns humorous, analytical and bizarre, but never very bold. Instead of the grand simplicity fashionable in his day, Lotto offered narrow complexity. He was perhaps the first great "psychological painter," so of course the 20th century cottons...
...congratulate you on your very fine color spread and article on Georges Rouault [TIME, July 27] ... His pictures portray such great feeling, intense emotion and torment within the soul . . . Rouault once said, "Some day I hope to paint a Christ so moving that tLose who see it will be converted...
...story. Occasionally, the makers of the film seem less concerned with catching the Blue Bird than with making the audiences watch the Red birdie. But on the whole, the film is relatively free of Communist blurbs. The wonder is that the movie, with grace and sureness, finds images to portray the symbols that swarm beneath the surface of the story. Sadko is a spectacle-in adequate color-that need not pale beside Cecil B. DeMille. Dancers flash, warriors buffet, giant storms roll by with a verve that Hollywood can seldom induce. Above all, it is a spectacle that gives glimpses...
Which means that in The Private Dining Room, Nash does his utmost to portray life with the mingled tolerance and grouchiness that follow an obligatory loosening of the belt. He finds for example, that there is very little satisfaction in talking with the younger generation...
...meticulous man, and when I portray baboons I leave no stern untoned...