Word: 1880s
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...still lifes were lone objects like that: a half-peeled lemon exposing its snow-white pith, a warty green monument of a melon. But on occasion, especially in the 1860s, Manet would show his full ordering skill in a composition that anticipates what Cezanne came to in the 1880s. Still Life with Salmon, 1866, is such a painting, a wonderful balance between stability and its opposite: you can feel the weight of the fish and the density of the white tablecloth, but the knife in the foreground is precariously balanced, and the blue bowl with a lemon...
Born in 1864 to wealthy Jewish parents, Stieglitz was schooled in New York City but spent most of the 1880s in Germany, studying the relatively young art of which he was to be such a master: photography. This was his first obsession, and when he got back to New York, he made up his mind to revolutionize it. Most American photographers, to him, were stuffy and sentimental "pictorialists," so bent on imitating the look of painting that they couldn't treat photography as an equal, independent medium. He developed a "straight" photography--direct, candid and true to nature--that captured...
Volatility can be wrenching, but it is important to remember that it has also been the fountainhead of economic growth in the U.S. Board member Robert Hormats, vice chairman of Goldman Sachs International, reached back to the 19th century to make the point. "In the 1880s, the U.S. built 70,000 miles of rail," he said. "In the 1890s, 40,000 miles of that 70,000 miles went bankrupt." Yet that infrastructure powered growth in the early 20th century. Likewise, the beating so many tech stocks took last year is only half the story. The tech revolution is still...
...Frank Stockton, the writer who propounded this question in the 1880s, left the answer to his readers. He intended it to be a test of character. Stockton said that the choice you make shows the kind of person...
Everything brightens as the exhibit moves to the Paris and Arles years of the late 1880s. Even the walls of the museum change from somber blue to yellow, van Gogh's favorite color. In Paris, van Gogh was busy but poor, so he often used himself as a model. Seven of his self-portraits appear in the exhibit, more than have ever been seen together before...