Word: self-portraits
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Livingstone and her colleague Bevil Conway, who happens to be a stereoblind painter, found later that Rembrandt’s self-portrait etchings—which are mirror images of the original—portray an averted right eye. Armed with ample evidence, Livingstone and Conway concluded that Rembrandt was indeed stereoblind, a syndrome that may have helped him produce three-dimensional paintings...
...make peace with the past. His real instinct was forward, into pictures like David with the Head of Goliath, possibly one of his last. The victorious David, rumored to have been modeled after one of the artist's male lovers, holds the severed head of Goliath, a plain self-portrait of the artist. The painting is Caravaggio at the height of his lethal powers. Throughout his life he included his own likeness in his canvases. But in exile, as he meditated more forcefully on his fate, he appears more frequently than ever. In The Raising of Lazarus - a powerful topic...
...working-class fella who briefly obscures the Grant-Hepburn limelight, and George Cukor directs with his usual quiet mastery. Those lusciously long takes remind viewers that star quality, not editing, is the essence of classic Hollywood cinema. The DVD has some cool extras, including Hepburn's 1993 documentary self-portrait All About Me and a fine study of the Cukor touch by TIME's Richard Schickel. A rare treat is two radio plays of The Philadelphia Story, also with Hepburn, Grant and Stewart...
...Graham Greene’s case, it seemed that only the artist himself should be trusted to paint his self-portrait...
...Alcalay, a professor emeritus in Visual and Environmental Studies (VES), art is an expression of the self or the results of inward exploration. It is therefore fitting that the new biographical documentary of Alcalay by three VES alumni be entitled Albert Alcalay: Self-Portraits. Alcalay himself, who would call all of art a self-portrait, could not have summed it up better...