Word: self-portrait
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...best works at the Louvre exhibition were done in 1906, soon after he hit Paris. One was a portrait of Gertrude Stein (borrowed from Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum) that made her look solid as a hillside, a Mother Earth with brains. The other, a self-portrait from the Philadelphia Museum of Art, presented the youthful Picasso as a stocky, strong boy staring intently at nothing in particular. Both pictures demonstrated his genius for transforming subject matter into shapes and colors of his own invention which are still absolutely convincing...
...California redwood background of the Knight cover, Bohrod painted his incised signature under another tiny self-portrait. Said he, with a chuckle: "I've always wanted to have my face on the cover of TIME, so I sneaked it in through the back door." Cordially yours...
...that the greatest single change in the ministry is caused by "the rapid shift that is being made from the life of the village and the countryside to the urbanized mass society." More than eight of the questionnaire's eleven pages were designed to draw out a ministerial self-portrait. From them Dr. Blizzard found that the ministers are asking themselves such questions...
...Morland take pains to work out a painting carefully. One of his last and best canvases was painted while Morland was visiting his sick wife in Paddington two years before his death. Just released from prison, Morland painted himself, attended by his manservant Gibbs frying sausages. From his self-portrait Morland looks out with watery, disconsolate eyes. At his feet Morland painted what might well have been his own grim epitaph, an overturned glass and bottle, both empty...
...lecturing for money to radio listeners and the matronly bands of U.S. "culture-vultures," as he called them, Poet Thomas whirled his economic crutch like a pinwheel. These pieces testify to his roving eye, roguish humor and beery vision of the human condition. He can draw a third-person self-portrait as accurately as a brilliant cartoonist or observant cop: "He's five foot six and a half. Thick blubber lips; snub nose; curly mouse-brown hair; one front tooth broken . . . speaks rather fancy; truculent; plausible ; a bit of a shower-off; plus fours and no breakfast, you know...