Word: self-portrait
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...junketed around Europe as tutor to a 14-year-old polio victim. Later, he drew on his Cuban impressions to write two more apprentice novels, Cockpit and The Son of Perdition, unlikely tales of tropic adventure. In Ask Me Tomorrow, Cozzens used his European experiences for a crisply satiric self-portrait, complete with a characteristic blast at the American expatriates...
...first dated New England miniature (176-, the last number being obscure) was the small, three-dimensional self-portrait by John Singleton Copley, whose father-in-law owned some of the tea destroyed by the Boston Tea Party but whose locket cases were made by Tea-Dumper Paul Revere. The best American miniatures were made by Edward Greene Malbone, who with precision of draftsmanship and a unique harmony of colors could portray the lofty assurance of Philanthropist Thomas Russell, wealthy New England merchant, or the visionary romanticism of Painter Washington Allston. Fine miniatures were also done by Sarah Goodridge, who painted...
David Low, perhaps the most famed political cartoonist of modern times, worked over the faces of the great with a wooden matchstick dipped in India ink. For his own self-portrait he has chosen pastels...
...tradition, just as oldtime jazz lovers thought big-band, arranged jazz was a sad decline from the old, improvised New Orleans roughhouse. In fact, few of the current U.S. calypso performers could compete with King Radio, a little one-eyed Trinidadian who is fondly remembered for his pithy self-portrait...
...painters to follow in their wake, manages to give her intensely lyric, free-flow paintings a recognizably personal stamp. Up to using anything from a paint pot to her foot to gain her effects, she occasionally relaxes by switching to a meticulous landscape or realistic self-portrait. Says Painter Frankenthaler of her abstract work, "I just start to see what happens. You want clues? There are no clues. No idea makes a picture good...