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...personal response to the challenge of Cubism, he approached the very edge of abstraction. Things and people were reduced to concise signs of themselves, but in the end Matisse always remained attached to the visible world. Just look at Goldfish and Palette, from 1914, in which light and shadow, form and space, are distilled into ambiguous stage flats. Is that black strip down the center of the painting a wall or a shadow? Actually, it's the central mullion of a window and its shadow, widened and dislocated by perception and imagination. Planes of pure color pressed tight against...
...even as he struggled to gain a wider public, Matisse was losing his position as leader of the Parisian avant-garde to Picasso, 12 years his junior. Young artists were fascinated by the militant astringency of Cubism and its systematic means of exploding form and space. Compared with the bristling brown surfaces in Picasso and Braque, even Matisse's fiercest pictures, with their dizzying color, could look a bit "decorative" - a dismissive word thrown at him all the time. (See some artists from the 2010 Whitney Biennial...
...when Valentine's Day was released on Valentine's Day weekend. And though Date Night gleaned only a modest B rating from CinemaScore's exit poll, it could get a Sunday bump from Fey's stint over the weekend as guest host on Saturday Night Live - the coolest form of cross-promotion, especially when SNL's musical guest was teen fave Justin Bieber. Now every girl from 8 to 14 knows about Fey's movie...
Worse, these same students later face de facto discrimination when applying for jobs for which an internship is deemed a stepping-stone. The majority of firms expressly cited “relevant work experience in the form of internships” as the primary motivation to hire a recent college graduate. As it stands, if you can’t afford work to without pay before graduating, you might not work at all afterwards...
...ethnic group over generations of war and migration. Their founding national myth is the Epic of Manas, a 500,000-line poem that is 12 times the size of The Odyssey and claimed by some to be one of the few examples of oral literature preserved in its original form for nearly a thousand years. It tells of a heroic warrior, Manas, as he united the Kyrgyz and smote enemy invaders upon the steppe. It's a tale that has been actively propagated within the republic of Kyrgyzstan since its 1991 independence from a crumbling Soviet Union...