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Giovanni Battista Tiepolo's four rear-view drawings of Venetian men c. 1760 capture the same types of characters that later inhabit Gioachino Rossini's opera "The Barber of Seville," while Louis-Léopold Boilly's 1823 lithograph "The Grimaces" pushes the envelope of grotesque expression while preserving the refinement of French drawing style.
Making a Mockery of It All Barrymore Laurence Scherer 2011
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Metropolitan Museum of Art/The Elisha Whittelsey Collection/The Elisha Whittelsey Fund 'The Grimaces' 1823 by Louis-Léopold Boilly A fascinating sheet of figure studies drawn by Eugène Delacroix after Gillray is one of several prime examples of artists quoting motifs from earlier works and even from contemporaries.
Making a Mockery of It All Barrymore Laurence Scherer 2011
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Grimaces from what was once the very face of social democracy in Europe.
Bernard-Henri Lévy: The Antisemitism to Come Bernard-Henri Lévy 2010
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Grimaces from what was once the very face of social democracy in Europe.
Bernard-Henri Lévy: The Antisemitism to Come Bernard-Henri Lévy 2010
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Grimaces from what was once the very face of social democracy in Europe.
Bernard-Henri Lévy: The Antisemitism to Come Bernard-Henri Lévy 2010
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Red bandanas were for the Bloods, blue bandanas were for the Crips, and purple were for the Grimaces.
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Pewkeeper, had got me a Place, I thought to exercise the Duty that call'd me thither: But, alas! the Curtesies, the Whispers, the Grimaces, the
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Grimaces of a Lover with an indifferent Heart, while I bore up the Outside of Indifferency with a Heart full of Passion.
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Grimaces of a Lover with an indifferent Heart, while I bore up the Outside of Indifferency with a Heart full of Passion.
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With these and the like Discourses, together with all the fond Actions and Grimaces of a passionate Lover, he continually entertain'd me, that I heartily wish'd for Valerius again, whose Love (incestuous as it was) was yet much more supportable than this other.
Exilius 2008
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