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The English writer William Hazlitt described Lord Chatham in The New Monthly Magazine in 1826 as "a self-made man, bred in a camp, not in a court." [5] An 1831 obituarist in The Liberator describing Rev. Thomas Paul wrote, "As a self-made man, (and, in the present age, every colored man, if made at all, must be self-made,) he was indeed a ...
Self-Portrait, 1882 (No. 47). 26 × 19 cm. Munch Museum, Oslo. This is a complete list of paintings by Edvard Munch (12 December 1863 – 23 January 1944) [1] a Norwegian symbolist painter, printmaker and an important forerunner of expressionist art.
The Son of Man (French: Le fils de l'homme) is a 1964 painting by the Belgian surrealist painter René Magritte. It is perhaps his best-known artwork. [1] Magritte painted it as a self-portrait. [2] The painting consists of a man in an overcoat and a bowler hat standing in front of a low wall, beyond which are the sea and a cloudy sky. The man ...
Self-portrait of Smith (c.1680), Worcester Art Museum Unknown man, oil on canvas, from 17th century colonial America, attributed to Thomas Smith. Thomas Smith (c. 1650 –1691) was an artist, sailor and slave trader in colonial New England.
"Self-Made Men" is a lecture, first delivered in 1859, by Frederick Douglass, which gives his own definition of the self-made man and explains what he thinks are the means to become such a man. Douglass's view
Art criticism is the discussion or evaluation of art. [78] [79] [80] Art critics usually criticize art in the context of aesthetics or the theory of beauty. [79] [80] A goal of art criticism is the pursuit of a rational basis for art appreciation [78] [79] [80] but it is questionable whether such criticism can transcend prevailing ...
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A self-made man is a poor man who becomes successful through hard work. Self-Made Man or Self Made Man may also refer to: Self-Made Man, an autobiographical book by Norah Vincent "Self Made Man" (Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles), an episode of the American television series Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles