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...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...
...ller-Westermann assembled most of the exhibit's 150 oils, watercolors and graphic works from the Munch Museum's own vast collection, and added items from private collections and Stockholm's Moderna Museet, where she is the head of international art. Together the works form a powerful-and often uncomfortable-record of six decades of Munch's explorations of pain and troubled sexuality...
...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 and doubts that he could then transfer to more general motifs." Müller-Westermann...
...Bolton in 2002 after they warned that he was making assertions in a speech about Cuba's weapons programs that could not be backed up by U.S. intelligence. Bolton, they said, tried to have them removed from their jobs. Witnesses say that after one of the analysts, Christian Westermann, wrote an internal memo warning of Bolton's embellishments, he was summoned to Bolton's office and subjected to a finger-wagging tirade. Westermann's boss at the time, Carl W. Ford Jr., told the committee in a public hearing two weeks ago that he considered Bolton "a serial abuser...
...Latin American division at the CIA's National Intelligence Council, told the committee in private that he was subjected to similar mistreatment by Bolton after he raised objections to the contents of the Cuba speech. Bolton denies pushing to get anyone fired, and his supporters point out that neither Westermann nor Armstrong lost his job. Bolton testified that he did ask to have Armstrong reassigned because he had "lost confidence" in him, although he never worked with him or even...