Early Hanna biographer Herbert Croly, writing in 1912, the year Davenport died, deemed his subject portrayed as a "monster" by the "powerful but brutal caricatures of Homer Davenport".
You see, for me (and likely, only me) it always feels like an insult to the subject portrayed, be they living or dead -- and completely irrespective of whether the portrayal emphasizes villainy, heroism or that beloved one-word-fits-all: "nuance".
In an influential biography published last year, Jung Chang and Jon Halliday took relentless aim at their subject, portraying just about everything he did in the worst possible light, and the man himself as a virtual monster.
Throughout the evolution of his style, Macke generally remained faithful to Impressionist subject matter, portraying contemporary scenes of urban leisure.
Its tongue-in-cheek subject matter portrays America as a land of broken promises.
Celebrity subjects portrayed include Jean Cocteau, Josephine Baker, Gertrude Stein and Ambroise Vollard.
The Fauves painted directly from nature, as the Impressionists had before them, but Fauvist works were invested with a strong expressive reaction to the subjects portrayed.
These subjects, portrayed with warmth and even sweetness, reinforced her reputation as a female painter, but they also singled her out.
His historic studies focus tightly on their subjects, portrayed as frail, fallible, almost ridiculous creatures with little power left to wield.
September 5 , 1933Oak Park, Illinois Bruce Davidson, (born September 5, 1933, Oak Park, Illinois, U.S ., American photographer and filmmaker whose emotionally charged images frequently convey the loneliness and isolation of the subjects portrayed.
It's impossible to see these photographs without considering the power relations of European colonialism in Africa — the historical context in which they were produced — and, at the same time, to wonder about the agency and the individuality of the subjects portrayed.
