Wednesday, October 15, 2008

George Bellows Stag at Sharkey's painting

George Bellows Stag at Sharkey's paintingGeorge Bellows Dempsey and Firpo paintingCaravaggio The Sacrifice of Isaac painting
toughskinned green apple through, with thumb and forefinger. If he had not been so slow in his movements be would have made a champion boxer: he once killed a comrade in a friendly bout-bare-fisted, not with the usual metal boxing-gloves-with a blow on the side of the head that cracked his skull. He walked with his neck thrust slightly forward and his eyes on the ground. His face would have been handsome if it had not been disfigured by so many pimples, and if his eyes had not been so prominent, and if he had not worn an almost perpetual frown. His statues make him extremely handsome because they leave out these defects. He spoke little, and that very slowly, so that in conversation with him one always felt tempted to finish his sentences for him and answer them in the same breath. But, when he pleased, he was an impressive public speaker. He went bald early in life except at the back of his head, where he grew his hair long, a fashion of the ancient nobility. He was never ill.
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