The colorfully painted Fridas are portrayed by bare-chested men in flowing skirts, suggesting the artist's gender fluidity, as well as the inner strength belied by her frail body.
Sometimes portrayed as a bare-knuckled Chicago operative, he is also a bantering walrus of a man in mustard-stained sleeves who describes himself as a "kibbitzer," not a "policy guy".
But it also portrayed casual sex, pot-smoking, bare breasts, a transsexual landlady and gay men kissing.
This man of immense wealth, pomp and circumstance is portrayed by Dürer in his bare essence and yet he conveys a certain majesty.
She portrayed the deity Virtus, breast bared with a spear and a sword in hand, standing over a man, Tyranny, who is splayed on the ground with his crown nearby — an irresistible metaphor for ERA supporters.
Stripping off the previous conventions of portraiture, Freud portrayed friends and models splayed out bare for all to see, simultaneously confrontational and vulnerable.
He named the restaurant after the siren of classical mythology, portrayed on its Web site as a bare-breasted mermaid in an arresting state of aquatic ecstasy.
The Ebola epidemic has seen a wave of media frenzy, analyzing and scrutinizing the determinants and effects of the virus on society from every angle, portrayed in every media format for the world to see, to bare witness only.
One poster portrayed actress Evelyn Keyes as the zaftig love interest of a bare-chested Jeff Chandler.
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