Word: self-portraits
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...Collection,” showcasing a collection in three parts of photographs amassed and until now collecting dust like most of the university’s gathering in a Harvard depository. Hidden from tourists and casual museum-goers only interested in the celebrity of Van Gogh’s self-portrait and the Bernini sketch collection, the photography is surprisingly compelling, with emotionally raw prints that compose a time capsule of social changes and events of the 20th century. Portraits of children cringing at their first haircut, tuxedo-clad men diving head first into a fountain, an elderly couple standing...
...until the 11th chapter does he fully reveal how profoundly the war has changed him. His self-portrait reads: “25 years old and nothing to live for.” He can no longer relate to his former life...
...cover, the editors turned to Artist Robert Rauschenberg. He had previously contributed a self-portrait for a 1976 TIME cover story about him. Rauschenberg, who had been visiting China to supervise a show of his work in Peking and Tibet, met with Art Director Rudy Hoglund in Japan. Says Hoglund: "We thought he would be able to suggest something new and revolutionary for a Deng cover." The artist used his firsthand observation and some of his own photographs to create a collage of images, including a scissors cutting a ribbon to show that something new is opening in China. Says...
...howling stick figure of The Scream could itself qualify as a self-portrait under the liberating definition employed here by curator Iris Müller-Westermann. "He started painting himself when he was 18, and didn't finish being interested in himself until he died at 80 [in 1944]," she says. "Through self-portraits he developed a pictorial language for emotions and doubts that he could then transfer to more general motifs...
...connection in every seat Take a Hike Destinations to restore your sense of wonder There he is, too, leaning on a railing beneath a blood red sky in Despair (1892), an obvious precursor to The Scream (1893). The howling stick figure of The Scream could itself qualify as a self-portrait under the liberating definition employed here by curator Iris Müller-Westermann. "He started painting himself when he was 18, and didn't finish being interested in himself until he died at 80 [in 1944]," she says. "Through self-portraits he developed a pictorial language for emotions...