Word: self-portrait
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...Monsieur Paul, Tom puts down the story of his mistakes in a diary addressed to his son. Whether France's average Toms would recognize themselves in M. Schumacher's unprepossessing self-portrait is doubtful. The gist of his testimony seems to be that he would have avoided a lot of trouble if he had settled down to an honest job and an honest early marriage...
...Rommel Papers. A self-portrait, from letters and campaign notes, of one of the most aggressive commanders in military history (TIME...
Eddie never paid the slightest attention to critics. He would talk to artists, find out whom they admired, then drop around for a look. One of his prizes was a haunted, bug-eyed self-portrait by Stanley Spencer that Eddie found in a smelly cow-stable studio. "The lust of possession surged up in me," Eddie recalled, "and I asked the price." It was ?18, and Eddie marched out with it under his arm, the paint scarcely dry. Eddie helped young artists in other ways, too. "Usually," says a friend, "he would go out of the studio with a painting...
...gallery next week, Rene Magritte proves once again that he has all the technical facility of the best surrealists and almost none of their nightmare overtones. "It is much easier," he says, "to terrorize than to charm." Magritte charms with jokes-in-oils like this properly bowlered, quietly defiant self-portrait (upper right), a wine bottle turning into a carrot (above), and a sunlit sky that casts no light on the earth below...
...program got under way with a staid, ten-minute monologue by the staid BBC's Edward Halliday. Then Sir Gerald broke into Halliday's lukewarm praise of a Rembrandt self-portrait. "My dear fellow," he boomed, "that's a bloody work of genius." Pointing out a drop of water on a tulip, Sir Gerald cried: "Look at that confounded drop of water. Looks as if it might fall off any moment. That's sheer damned skill." Of Rembrandt's A Man in Armour: "I just go all goo-goo when I stand in front...