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...rattle off a litany of reasons he should be forgiven. "I have a good heart, I have a halfway good brain, and I believe in myself," he says. "People gravitate toward me." And it's true. In welfare waiting rooms, small children toddle over to him unprompted. On the subway, the same place where he used to jump the turnstile and beg for coins, he is now the chatty middle-aged man in a leather jacket, thriving on the laughter of strangers. At the hospital he visits every week to take his tuberculosis medicine, he shouts, "Hi, Mom!" to every...
Even by the dull standards of home videos, the tape is notably unexciting: a shaky, amateurish pan along a typically busy Singapore street, with views of a subway station and passing commuters. A bland voice provides a running commentary in well-educated English, a litany of street names and building numbers. But then comes a chilling remark: as the camera zooms in on a parking area, the narrator advises his viewers to "notice some of the boxes placed on the motorcycles, these are the same type of boxes that we intend to use"?to plant a bomb. The narrator describes...
Rothko’s subjects in these early pictures are predominantly people, many in interaction with elements of the city—the subway or the street—and some still lifes. Perhaps best known is “Self Portrait” (1936). Bordered by a rich warm brown, decontextualized background composed of relaxed and blotted brush strokes, the face is minimally painted with deep and intense blue around the eyes, and red accents on the lip and the tie. The expression shows neither contentment nor despair but instead reveals confidence or strength balanced with a reluctance...
...they are, it is difficult to look at Rothko’s realist works in a vacuum without considering his later abstract work. His use of color and brushwork, particularly in the settings, bears a close resemblance to the colored planes to come. In “Untitled (Subway)” (1937), isolated figures—none of them apparently aware of each other’s presence—sit or stand waiting on a train platform. At right, the tracks narrow and fade into the distance; the sense of space and perspective is remarkable throughout. The painting...
...Line is named for its subterranean companion—the subway train that stops in Harvard Square...