Word: self-portraits
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...capture both its gaiety and its unreality. Certainly he knew that his own gifts were fleeting. For the last ten years of his life, he knew he had tuberculosis. Gilles, painted just a year before he died at the age of 37, is an unwitting testament and self-portrait, with the artist borrowing a clown's clothes and a friend's face for the final masquerade...
...Broadway production of The Lady of the Camellias, TIME's critic called him "a director who needs a director." Even the movie of Romeo and Juliet will not please everybody, since it clearly reflects Zeffirelli's idiosyncratic opinions of Shakespeare. "Mercutio," he insists, "is a self-portrait of Shakespeare himself, and a homosexual...
...come with a third eye in the middle of their foreheads, or still other eyes in shoulders or thighs. Nor are the eyes all that is awry in Graham's portraits. Often as not, they are littered with cabalistic signs and symbols from alchemy or numerology. In one self-portrait titled Apotheosis, Graham bears on his shoulders the sun and the moon, alchemists' symbols for the soul and the spirit. In addition, he has added horns to his head, possibly to indicate the union of devil...
...Spanish Civil War. For five months in 1936-37, he labored over one canvas, the Still Life with Old Shoe, which would, he hoped, be simple enough for the humblest Spanish peasant to appreciate. His anguish is mirrored in the lines that crisscross the face of his 1938 Self-Portrait. "I'd like," he wrote, "to try my hand at sculpture, pottery, engraving and, by means of painting of another kind, to get in closer contact with the masses, whom I have always kept in mind...
Passionate Madness. Perhaps Russell, for all of his years in the public eye, was and is too shy to sit still and be revealed-even before himself. A better sense of his essential qualities emerges from a reading of A History of Western Philosophy than from this self-portrait. In fact, the most pertinent comments and judgment about Russell himself come in the observations and strictures of others. For example, his brother Frank wrote to him back in 1916: "What the world wants of first-class intellects like yours is not action-for which the ordinary politician or demagogue...