Word: surround
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Four other portraits offer a comment on justice. A sheriff, a destitute migrant mother, and the wife of a lynching victim surround a rich woman who, wrapped in furs and chins, sits inside her elegant charriage. Of the four pictures, only this one has a name-title. On another wall, portraits of three anguished women precede a fourth who is perfectly sharp down to the hair on her chin. She is dead, however...
...seriously they take him is a question that doesn't bother Le Pare at all. He describes his own work as "a labyrinth, a fun house, a release from the conventional, uncomfortable world." He is all against the high seriousness with which critics and museums surround works of art. "Rather than take my art seriously," he explains, "the spectator should laugh when he enters the room." The cream of the jest Le Pare generally keeps to himself: that his lighthearted approach and kinetic wizardry are based on more than 20 years of training and seven of theorizing...
What mind can compass, what tongue relate the baroque doings which surround a Hasty Pudding opening--that manic cross between a mid-ocean gala and a run on the bank? The searchlights, the celebrities, the spilled drinks, the crowd's frenzied yelps of mutual recognition: the scene suggests unwitting passage into a claustrophobe's vision of the Apocalypse...
...view were a Rembrandt 1643 self-portrait (worth upwards of $750,000), a Gérard ter Borch, one of Rembrandt's contemporaries, and a work by the 18th century German, Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein. Their strange odyssey bespeaks of both the awe and the ignorance that surround great art works. It also suggests that masterpieces, like people, can be D.P.s...
...built Algeria into the third largest military power in Africa, after Egypt and South Africa. He has also built a menacing opposition. Though he has purged his enemies from the Algerian Labor Federation and sacked rivals on the 24-man Revolutionary Council, many pro-Ben Bella men still surround him in high government posts. Outside the country, powerful exiles like Independence Hero Mohammed Boudiaf are threatening to organize subversion against him. Ben Bella, who could well be the leader of such a revolt, is regularly shifted from prison to prison by special order of his nervous successor...