Word: self-portraits
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...last figures that Vigeland finished before he died was modestly clad in a smock: a self-portrait of that remarkable sculptor, Gustav Vigeland...
...industry's tight-lipped leaders began to remind each other that Hollywood's laboriously contrived self-portrait was once again in danger of looking like a comic strip-and an ugly one. For years, the world's best pressagents have been plugging the theme that Hollywood is a typical American town, a wholesome little community populated by "just folks": a lot of them better-than-average-looking, to be sure, but hardworking, sober, law-abiding, family-loving. This picture of the town, while true as far as it goes, glosses over the fact that under the klieg...
...Kollwitz self-portrait, the last she ever made, was on exhibition last week in Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art (see cut). Aged, sick and nearly blind, Kathe Kollwitz had pictured herself in profile and alone, turned aside in exhaustion from her Christian task. In 1945, soon after she finished the lithograph, death came to 78-year-old Kathe Kollwitz...
...sheer color. Describing his famed Night Café-in which a green billiard table squats like a beast under the bright yellow lights of a red room-he could say without the least self-consciousness: "I have tried to express the terrible passions of humanity by means of red and green." When he was very ill, he sent his brother a self-portrait head which seems to burn like an electric bulb, with nerves for filaments. "You must look at it for some time," he wrote. "You will see, I hope, that my features are a good deal calmer, though...
Kuniyoshi made his reputation in the 1920s with relatively cheerful designs featuring plump ladies in swimming, cows, babies and trapeze artists fitted together in orientally flat, bird's-eye perspectives. They caught collectors' fancies, earned him money and leisure enough to take up golf. In one self-portrait he carries a golf club as proudly as a samurai sword...