Word: self-portrait
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...symbolists of the 1890s, as well as young Turks like Picasso. He had studied Puvis's frescoes in the Pantheon, and their upright, formalized mien gave the measure to his big allegory of young love and despair, La Vie, 1903. (Originally the young man in the painting was a self-portrait, but Picasso turned it into the face of Carlos Casagemas, the friend who had come with him to Paris from Barcelona and then committed suicide for love of an artist's model...
...candidate does venture a stand, he often does so primarily to adjust his media image. For example, when Bush denounces the registration of firearms, he not only gains the support of the boys down at the rifle club, but also adds an important conservative brush stroke to his self-portrait. Journalists can further muddle the hazy relationship between issues and images by failing themselves to differentiate between...
Goodman's essay, entitled "The Captain's Self-Portrait: John Smith as Chivalric Biographer," discussed the autobiographical writing of Captain John Smith in terms of the romance novels and popular fiction familiar to him, Goodman said yesterday...
...modernist imagination, Sérusier's little Talisman of 1888, for instance, with its plain flat patches of color that demonstrated so vividly to Denis and Bonnard that art should not be mere representation, but rather "a transposition, a caricature, the passionate equivalent of an experienced sensation"; or the 1890 self-portrait by Edouard Vuillard, done in brilliant polemical slabs of nonnaturalist color. But it is to the great paintings at the center of the exhibition that one returns, those hinges upon which art swung from the 19th century into the 20th, disclosing a new amplitude of color and form...
...self-portrait was refreshingly candid. Said Benjamin Civiletti, after his selection as the next U.S. Attorney General: "I am a kind of determined, strong professional, not much interested in personal charisma or attention. I could be described as businesslike or dull or serious. I have no flamboyance at all and little humor...