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Among the first paintings Htein Lin made during his 61/2 years in a Burmese prison was a self-portrait. The likeness is only passing - he had no mirror in his cell - and the line is uncertain: in lieu of a brush, he used the pieces of a disassembled cigarette lighter. The theme couldn't be clearer, however. The artist's face is enshrouded by prison bars. Yet sprouting from his head is a verdant tangle of vines that sprawls to the painting's edge - a fierce assertion that the mind, unlike the body, will not be held captive. "While...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Art of Survival | 5/8/2008 | See Source »

...sobriety was quickly confirmed as she took a dive out the passenger side of the car, landing face down in a snow bank.My mom, standing on the curb, looked horrified. I gave her the thumbs up.Back at home, I found myself smiling up at my 5-year-old self-portrait on the fridge. One step closer to the dream...

Author: By Alyssa N. Wolff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Driving Miss Crazy | 3/19/2008 | See Source »

...sense, having themselves photographed in nutty get-ups: Duchamp with his hair shampoo-lathered into devil-horn shapes or shaved in the form of a star, or dressed up as a woman; Picabia with his bare chest puffed out, posing as a classical god; and Ray in a photographic self-portrait with half a beard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Marcel Duchamp: Anything Goes | 2/27/2008 | See Source »

...part of a narrative—the story of geometric abstraction in Caracas—but this is also what makes it intimate. The artists are some of the friends and teachers of Balteo Yazbeck, and his own art clearly bears their influence. In some ways, it is a self-portrait. “Pedacito del Cielo” is an attempt to physically register and record the thoughts and influences of one artist. The questions of artistic authorship—is the exhibition a group show, the brochure asks, or a solo show?—are less interesting...

Author: By Alexander B. Fabry, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Little Piece of Balteo Yazbeck | 2/15/2008 | See Source »

...Reportedly worth $100 million, The Boy, Gloor said, was part of the "trilogy," of Cezanne's portraits, which also include a self-portrait and a painting of his wife. The three other stolen works are van Gogh's Blossoming Chestnut Branches, Monet's Poppies near Vétheuil, and Degas' Count Lepic and His Daughters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art Thieves Nab Cezanne Masterwork | 2/12/2008 | See Source »

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