In view of that portrait, casting James Woods in the title role would seem to be a stroke of brilliance.
For it, the New York artists John Ahearn and Rigoberto Torres were invited to make, in a workshop environment, plaster portrait casts of visitor's faces in very much the same way that they made portraits of their neighbors in an embattled South Bronx in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
The portrait casts Kahlo as an artist twice over ― not only does she render her androgynous semblance in paint, but she also constructs her gender-fluid persona in real life, over and over again, with every flowing skirt, menswear suit, floral garland or untamed unibrow. .
In one self-portrait cast in tin — an inexpensive and easily worked metal — Messerschmidt is wearing a Bratislava-style sheepskin cap and grinning so strenuously that his eyes are all but buried in folds of flesh.
His most famous work is Self, a self-portrait cast in his own blood and then frozen, though his sculpture of Kate Moss in a yogic knot is equally well known.
Anyone of a squeamish disposition may want to avoid a certain room at the National Portrait Gallery, which today displayed its latest, £300,000, acquisition: 10 pints of the artist Marc Quinn's frozen blood in a self-portrait cast of his head, sitting zen-like on a concealed refrigeration unit.
There are also aluminum portraits cast in the stylized manner of revolutionary icons like Che Guevara that depict the artists' relatives, a means of giving voice to the greater Cuban populace.
Glamor, after all, once meant magic, and LaBeija's portraits cast a spell over their subjects, through gorgeousness-giving power.
With its faint throwback to the distant days of Fauvism, the cartoon-like portrait apparently cast a spell on bidders.
After leaving the newspaper, he wrote 10 more books, including an indictment of Henry A. Kissinger's policies, "The Illusion of Peace: Foreign Policy in the Nixon Years," in 1978; and the 1986 "Fidel: A Critical Portrait," which cast the Cuban leader as a Latin caudillo "wrapped in a Marxist-Leninist mantle of convenience".
Manet worked with models, painted straight (and sideways) portraits and cast family or friends in most of his paintings.
