Word: impressionism
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Consider "Brett" and "Davood," the blokes of David van Royen's domestic portraits-one a home handyman trapped in his glassed veranda, the other half-dressed on his bed, staring out beyond the noose of his window's chain pull, their masculine identities hovering uncertainly in the air. While Van...
That kind of calm confidence, seasoned by nearly 40 years in the Navy, has made quite an impression on Fallon's bosses - particularly President George W. Bush, who's looking for a steady military hand to help him turn around the mess in Iraq. This week Bush will announce he...
Several solutions have been proposed as a way to resolve this embarrassment, but the Course-Cost Assistance Program (C-CAP) is the best step toward treating high book costs like the academic impediment that they are. C-CAP would grant stipends to low-income students for their course books. However...
...less forgiving process than painting, so Japanese artists developed a remarkable economy of expression. Utamaro, for instance, could with a mere line or two describe the course of a river or the fullness of a women's breast. Thus could Monet - in Impression, Sunrise (1873), the painting that gave Impressionism its name - conjure up a boat with a mere squiggle of the brush...
The noose around the dictator's neck was one of the most striking images ever viewed across the Arab world - an Arab president being held to account. Still, for much of the Arab world, the execution of Saddam Hussein is not being viewed in the light of the vicious crimes...