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Occasionally the robed and turbaned Ms. Wilke eerily evokes portraits of other artists: Goya, Fragonard, Max Beckmann, the bedridden Matisse.

The only real editing involved isolating his subjects from their backgrounds, then adding a type of light that evokes portrait photography.

For in the end that is what "Room" most clearly evokes, a portrait of a woman for whom every thought was worth pursuing with ardor and for whom the pursuit was her torment and her pleasure.

It dramatises its own eccentricity, evoking a portrait of the author in a state of distraction; the words of the translation are printed in handwriting (Carson's own), almost entirely without punctuation, in tiny capital letters that are both neat and a little frantic.

An image of Uma Thurman evokes Irving Penn's portraits of distinguished culturati.

Actually it is thousands of years old, for his austere physical appearance evokes ancient Roman portraits of stoic philosophers and unbending senators.

These simple lyric images evoke Alfred Stieglitz's intimate portraits of Georgia O'Keeffe; Callahan's photographs of his wife, Eleanor; and Allen Ginsberg's snapshot-like pictures of Peter Orlovsky, Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs.

His minimalist, stark portraits evoke those of the early merchant marine ID cards.

Mr. Kamil was, as usual, witty, informative and encyclopedic in evoking a historical portrait of a city so influenced by immigration and religion.

What with crowded social schedules, some of his portraits -- like his life-size rendering of the designer Carolyne Roehm, meant to evoke Sargent's portrait of Madame X -- can take years.

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