Word: self-portraits
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...were two sittings of not more than a half hour each. Before he started to paint, he had pulled out my history. He tried to paint much more than what's on the surface of the canvas." Bec":mann's The King (opposite) is something of a self-portrait, in which self-mockery and egotism blend. "For my money," says Millionaire May, "it's one of the greatest pictures of the 20th century...
...Fleischman divides his working day among half a dozen enterprises, from carpet stores to hotels to Broadway productions, devotes his evenings and weekends to art. One of his proudest acquisitions is a painting by Ryder, the great est romantic of them all - a self-portrait painted about the age of 43. Parts of his collection have been shown in 15 countries, and Fleischman himself generally goes along to lecture. In his native Detroit, he is a sparkplug of Archives of American Art, an institution set up to gather artists' letters, recorded inter views and other research material. "Outside...
...youth," Dali explains in his macaronic idiom, "because thees painting represent le dream of Columbus, and youth ees le time for dreams. Other figures are monks and sailors qui come along weeth Columbus." Modestly he adds that the monk completely hidden in his cowl is actually a self-portrait. The giant sea urchin in the foreground represents "le real shape of le earth as discovered by le American Satellite Explorer Two" (actually, Vanguard Beta). In his dream, Dali's young Columbus meets not Indians but symbols of past and future. He is greeted by a transparent Saint Narcissus, whose...
...Koerner, but more important is the fact that in an age when few even try to paint deep space, he has painted it so well as to bring even the most reluctant viewer straight inside the picture. In the foreground, like a sunny signature he has put his own self-portrait with his wife, daughter an grandmother...
...Self-Portrait: When I Was Sick, Louis Corinth's etching with drypoint, magically creates--through brisk, vibrant strokes--the chilling atmosphere of the sick room. Kokotte by Otto Dix, is characterized by evanescent technique and incisive vision, not unlike Corinth's basically realistic style...