In these catch trials, the experimental animals clearly preferred the target defined by head gaze of the portrayed monkey, rather than being misdirected to targets defined by one of the associations with portraits experienced in the training set.
In another pairing of video artist and painter, Mary Lucier uses the camera like a prowling cat, homing in on environmental details (including her husband, Robert Berlind) to create an intimate portrait of experience.
Like her compatriots the writer Martha Gellhorn and reporter-photographer Margaret bothke-White, bofh of them subjects of Miller's wartime portraits, the experience of war released abilities and energies that had up to then been dormant.
Peter Mullan has written and directed a semifictional portrait of the experience, focusing on four young women sentenced to Magdalene in the 1960's.
MEGHAN O'ROURKE: One of the truisms is that we need the longer perspective — but when my mother died, what I wanted was an intimate portrait of the experience from the inside out, not from years later.
The most nuanced and sympathetic portrait of the experience of British Muslims comes earlier, in the form of Samad Iqbal, a devout believer attempting to fit his faith to his adopted nation.
"Grant, not Lincoln, is the most popular man in the 19th century," the historian Donald L. Miller says during the "American Experience" portrait of Grant, beginning Sunday night on PBS and concluding on May 12. "No question about it.
With Mr. Williams they conjure a portrait of black experience in the second half of the last century that finds a homey beauty not in suffering but in carrying on, waiting for the pain to pass and hoping for something better around the next corner.
Norman Mailer wrote a two-volume participant-observer journalistic portrait of the experience — "The Armies of the Night" (one of his masterpieces), on the antiwar movement in the fall of 1967, and "Miami and the Siege of Chicago" (a non-masterpiece, but good enough as a follow-up), on the Republican and Democratic National Conventions in the summer of 1968.
But really he means that he considers the record a failure, because he was trying to paint a more nuanced portrait of his experiences.
