She squints as if she is in pain and tilts her head up like Stevie Wonder (on him, it looks joyous; on her, pleading).
The woman inside the clothes may look joyous, wistful, lonely, arrogant, bored, expectant, surprised, annoyed — she may even weep, though weeping models have not been particularly popular with the editors of Harper's Bazaar — but in no case does her display of emotion betray any sign of affectation.
Here's Christ returning a loved one to the embrace of his family, but rather than looking joyous, Rembrandt painted the family members as looking horrified.
It's not uncommon to see photos of just-adopted animals leaving the shelter with their new owners -- what shelter workers call "freedom ride" photos -- in which the animals look joyous and relieved.
Cast in soft, auburn-yellow light, Sugimoto's work — a deceptively plain combination of cotton-thread embroidery on canvas and sparsely applied acrylic paints and watercolors — looked both joyous and comforting.
But she made it look easy, joyous, and that joy jumped off the screen and stayed with us forever.
With 45 jewel-like pieces standing, floating and gently moving, the Calder gallery looks woozily joyous, like a Christmas tree in an aquarium.
The only piece that seemed out of place to me was Frederick Ashton's ballet Monotones II from 1966 in which three dancers dressed all in sexless white unitards and little white crown-like hats bearing pom poms, bounced around holding hands, looking like joyous, bopping faery-like creatures.
The cape sold at Sotheby's is made of vivid yellow feathers and emblazoned, shoulder to shoulder on the back, with a double crescent image of black feathers above, red below, that looked like a joyous smile.
Adele was dressed in a classic attire and Simon looked very smart and joyous," a source told the Daily Mail.
