Word: giftedness
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Copley's sense of empirical realism would be carried forward by other painters. It wasn't so long ago that people thought of John James Audubon (1785-1851) as a gifted illustrator, an "ornithological artist"--but he was far more than that. He was a great formal painter with (almost...
The American Revolution gave artists a new subject: now that America had a history with its own large repercussions on the world, and a cast of heroes and Founding Fathers to match, it needed icons of both. The test case was George Washington, who died in 1799. Paintings of him...
The energies of cultural periods don't last forever. The Italian Renaissance came to an end--not suddenly, like a snapping rope, but gradually, through fraying, mutation, replacement. And one would need to be an extreme optimist--some would say, a willfully blind one as well--to think that the...
"It does not surprise me at all that the gifted, driven graduates of Harvard University raise very gifted, driven children," says one male undergraduate legacy in an e-mail.
"With few exceptions everyone who was accepted is extraordinarily gifted in some capacity," says a male undergraduate legacy who wished to remain anonymous.