Word: self-portrait
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Brando's characterization, then, while it is a superbly professional performance, is also something of a self-portrait. The correspondences between the role and the life are not always precise; in the case of Paul's kinky sexual predilections and darker rages, the viewer can only speculate whether such correspondences exist at all. But, although the facts may vary, the tone and attitude often ring true. "Forty years of Brando's life experiences went into the film," says his friend Christian Marquand, the French actor. "It is Brando talking about himself, being himself. His relations with...
Playhouse New York. "To Be Young Gifted and Black" is playwright Lorraine Hansberry's dramatic self-portrait. Includes scenes from "A Raisin in the Sun," CH. 2, 8:30 p.m. Color...
Odious. About La Tour's life and character, very little is known. The man is faceless-the more so, because he left no known self-portrait; it is just possible that the quick-eyed, copper-haired young cheat at the right in The Cardsharp with the Ace of Diamonds may be La Tour himself. But his life is mostly conjecture, strung between a few documentary signposts. He was born in 1593, at Vic, a town in the duchy of Lorraine. At some time between 1610 and 1616, he is assumed to have gone to Italy and worked in Rome...
...galleries housing the exhibition Picasso in the Collection of the Museum of Modern Art. On one wall the imposing "boy Leading a Horse" (1905) walks purposefully forward, a self-assured youth guiding the beast forward by the certain force of his pure and adolescent figure. His gaze and grace look to the opposite wall, where his grown-up self seems to stare back from the commanding eyes of a self-portrait of the painter, urging the viewer to join the horse behind an innovative spirit embarked on a journey of artistic adventure. The self-portrait dates from 1901. Gertrude Stein...
...fact that one of the most prolific and revolutionary artistic spirits of our century did a very great deal more in the next 70 years of his career, interpreting the world of visual reality in new ways with the intellect that glares so defiantly from the eyes of his self-portrait. Yet these same eyes could see their owner in more unlikely lights. "...I really do look like your president Lincoln," Picasso informs an amused Alice B. Toklas in her Autiobiography. Like this trompe-l'oeil version of his own self-image, many quirks of his personal vision could trick...