Word: portrayed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...point of fact, Painter John was coming to the U. S. to portray Alvan Tufts Fuller, Governor of Massachusetts, together with his wife and four children. The portrait, if typically successful, would doubtless be bright in color, not too careful in detail; it would be possible to recognize in its style the influence of Gaugin and more especially Cezanne. The canvass would be notable for a certain quality of excitement combined with certainty of technique...
...John Lavery's portraits are distinguished by concentration upon pattern and composition and by a unique green which he uses in his flesh tints. Lavery has painted the British Royal family with notable success; a man of strong and erratic enthusiasms, he last week proposed to portray Prize-fighter Gene Tunney whom he met at a banquet. "He is the favorite of the Gods," exclaimed Sir John, "Someone ... I myself . . . should paint him for the Royal Academy...
...beyond a rather superficial general idea, since only the graphic scenes can be utilized, the system does not work. For instance, if a scene from the Continental Congress is shown, how is it to portray the strifes and the animosities and the high currents on feeling that crossed each other as each representative of the thirteen different states clamored for the specific rights of his own territory? How are the great arguments pro and con the freeing of the slaves to be expressed through the medium of sight? Obviously, such qualities as sight cannot reproduce must perforce be omitted from...
...paint is to be able to portray upon a flat surface any visible thing whatsoever that may be chosen...
Thus spake immortal Albrecht Dürer who could and did portray all visible things whatsoever which were chosen by his often niggling patrons. Last week in his native city-quaint, medieval, storied Nuremberg-men paused to remember that Albrecht Dürer died there just four hundred years ago. They prowled up the steep stairs and round the drafty rooms of Dürer's tall house near the Castle Nuremberg. They viewed a great, commemorative collection of his works, and marveled how, at a patron's whim, he could crowd a mighty canvas with all imaginable...