Word: self-portrait
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...then came the ice of Stalinism, the crushing of the cultural avant- garde. Malevich retracted; he went back to painting cutouts of peasants in the field; his last picture, from 1933, is a realist self-portrait in which the primary colors of Suprematism are shifted into the panels of the costume he wears. He looks like Christopher Columbus, as well he might...
Although some of the 650 works have disappeared and others remain unidentifiable, Barron was able to borrow some 180 items that were in the original show. Among them are numerous masterpieces of the period, such as Kirchner's piercing image of castration anxiety, Self-Portrait as Soldier, 1915, and Beckmann's Still Life with Musical Instruments, 1926, perhaps the greatest of his still-life paintings, now seen for the first time...
...this quick conversational self-portrait of the artist as an inspector of milk-carton dates, even for a second, the impression is immediately erased when Joni Mitchell's new album, Night Ride Home, kicks in with the title cut. The instrumentation is spare, the melody light and tight as a fresh-spun web, the lyrics casual, conversational and smooth as a stone in a Zen garden. It takes a good deal of practical education to make something as intricate as her music seem so simple. And -- yes, all right -- so fresh...
...twinkle she has. More than 28 years after Monroe's death from a drug overdose at 36, the star's legend has not just endured, it has prevailed. The tide of Monroe reminiscences and memorabilia flows on. Two weeks ago, a watercolor self-portrait by Monroe, painted in 1955, was displayed in a collection of artworks by 40 celebrities, assembled as a benefit for the American Cancer Society. A series of photos of Monroe at 19, taken by an Army photographer when the actress was working at an airplane factory in 1945, has been unearthed for an exhibition opening...
Thus, Souter has enjoyed a relatively easy ride through the confirmation process. The invisible man from New Hampshire did sketch a vague self-portrait--carefully depicting himself as a moderate with an open mind--but avoided divulging his views on specific issues, most notably abortion...