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...each subsequent print. The work maintains the intricacy and complex use of patterning of his early prints, and explores a sense of texture in the colored regions. All strokes are individually visible, reminiscent of an area roughly colored with marker. In “Models” 9, a background composed of fragments of muted yellow, red, and blue is overlaid by circles composed of bright variants of the same colors. The pieces resemble the fragments of a mosaic, and the slices are separated by white lines as in a stained glass composition. The work shows the same kind...
...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 to exhibitionism. The portrait lacks...
Born in Boston on March 19, 1936, Segal was raised in Dorchester and attended the Boston Latin School, where he received a thorough, traditional education in the Greek and Latin classics. In his day, many students from Boston Latin came to Harvard with anextensive classical background, although, like many of them, Segal wasn’t decided on the classics as his field of study. But his college years developed Segal’s interest in ancient literature...
...believed what he said. In Bush's case, his rhetoric obviously is very different from Roosevelt's, but there is that same kind of bond. When Bush talks you feel he is talking from his gut; you don't hear the sound of pollsters and consultants hovering in the background...
...Oddly, or aptly, Warren was the composer Berlin most resembled in immigrant background (Warren was born in Brooklyn of Italian parents), natural melodic gift and lack of formal musical training. Most of the others - Kern, Rodgers, Hammerstein, Larry Hart - were of German Jewish stock from the educated middle-class; Berlin was a Russian Jewish immigrant, raised on the Lower East Side, quickly out of school and into the showbiz fringe as a singing waiter. Their music came from honing a natural talent with years of study; his songwriting gift was a freak of nature. No wonder he fretted that this...