social lion


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Noun1.social lion - a celebrity who is lionized (much sought after)
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celebrity, famous person - a widely known person; "he was a baseball celebrity"
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(The pictorial style was maintained in the colossal bombast of Jacek Malczewski's painting Melancholia, 1890-94, obtained by Elderfield from a museum in Poznan, Poland.) Benard's images bear out Elderfield's view of the studio at the end of the nineteenth century as a stagy, overupholstered backdrop--Baroque furniture, vast swags of drapery--that underscored the self-aggrandizing notion of the artist as social lion. Galassi, for his part, notes that the paring-down of studio imagery in twentieth-century photography to that of the artist and model may also have resulted from the fact that the studio of the modern photographer was, often enough, the street--a mutable locale, sited wherever he or she went, camera in hand.
"In the Studio: Paintings"/"In the Studio: Photographs": Gagosian Gallery
(Stop press, get this on to the front page!) Armed with this and other insights, We Are Social approached Cannes Lions to put the case forward for a new Social Lion. And although a dedicated Social Lion hasn't yet materialised, 15 new so- cial-specific categories within Cyber Lions 2014 have.
The social net works
Ever since the 1970s, Slavkov has been notorious in Bulgaria as a social lion and a great womanizer leading an extravagant lifestyle.
Bulgaria Bids Farewell to Ivan Slavkov 'Bateto'

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