Word: mirrors
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Imaginative Artist Ben Shahn, with judicious frugality of line, has portrayed Alec Guinness' anonymity as a man while presenting the mirror image of the actor who lives through the looking glass in his make-believe world of grease paint and spirit...
Caldwell acknowledges that the situation of twenty-five years ago has changed. "But each of my novels is contemporary for the year in which it is written. People themselves are softer now." Caldwell sees his job as a writer as making him into a sort of vocal mirror. "I just try to reflect life. I'm not trying to prove anything. A writer, though, does have to interpret, too. I try to do it, try to illuminate a little bit, enlighten." When looking for a character, he looks for the one thing which makes him different, the part...
...affair begins with a canvas by E. L. Kirchner which has long been a source of particular exasperation to me. Why Kirchner puts a cat in front of a mirror which conflicts with it and behind a figure which jumps behind it in terms of color, is a complete mystery. Once a painting functions as an entity, poetic licence is justified. But until it does the word is meaningless. This painting does not. If the term "expressionism" means something more than emotionalism, then there is more expression in a plum by Chardin. There is more expression, for that matter...
Paradise in a Mirror...
...Gloria, a precocious 17-year old who climbed over the wall to the estate because her father had left her and trundled off to Africa, added to the general enthusiasm for the future life with vaguely erotic pictures of Paradise which she envisioned in a mirror. And others in other interesting ways...