And then sometimes, of course, the world changes around you: the linked stories "Monopoly," "Moral Disorder" and "White Horse," which open in the early 1970's, are as much a portrait of an era as anything else.
And in your book, peoples' marriages come apart, they suffer terribly, and basically, it's a portrait of impotence to do anything about it.
In 16th-century Europe, the idea of the portrait was anything but simplistic or trusting.
And does this traditional portrait reveal anything about the inner lives of the subjects, or is it more about the artist's technique?
It's just the lurid portrait of a man who'll do anything to keep his job.
We can't think of anything new to do, so we just smile, family portrait style.
Author Hank Bordowitz called "Captain Jack" "as bleak a portrait of growing up in the affluent suburbs as anything before L.A. punk hit nearly a decade later".
The portrait of "The American" that Citizen Kane presented was anything but a complimentary one, but it was of an American.
You won't find anything resembling a charm song in "American Idiot," the wonderfully raucous portrait of disaffected youth inspired by the music of the rock band Green Day.
Of course he did not do anything so banal as paint someone else on top of his portrait of a Florentine woman.
