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...their faith clear in the interview. "I say, 'Look, I'm a Christian. We do talk about Jesus here. We do pray with clients. And if you don't feel this is something you can handle, you might not feel comfortable in this environment.'" When she had a biblical mural installed at one location, a stylist stopped showing up at work. "She said Jesus was staring down at her, and she didn't like it," Griffin says. At Integrity Bank, Skow says, "we do not discriminate," adding that "we have hired probably a handful of people who had a weak...
...DIED. AL HELD, 76, abstract painter and Yale University professor known for his gigantic geometrical pieces; near Camerata, Italy. After making his mark in the 1960s and '70s with a series of orderly, stylistic, mural-sized black-and-white works featuring cubes and pyramids that appeared to be floating, he painted dizzying grids and spheres in eye-popping colors. Describing the theme of much of his work, he said: "We're not going to get rid of chaos and complexity . . . But we can find a way to live with them...
...influenced legislation in California, and he was consulted on construction projects from Egypt to Alaska. died. al held, 76, abstract painter and Yale University professor known for his gigantic geometrical pieces; near Camerata, Italy. After making his mark in the 1960s and '70s with a series of orderly, stylistic, mural-sized black-and-white works featuring cubes and pyramids that appeared to be floating, he painted dizzying grids and spheres in eye-popping colors. Describing the theme of much of his work, he said, "We're not going to get rid of chaos and complexity ... But we can find...
DIED. AL HELD, 76, abstract painter and Yale University professor known for his gigantic geometrical pieces; near Camerata, Italy. After making his mark in the 1960s and '70s with a series of orderly, stylized, mural-size black-and-white works featuring cubes and pyramids that appeared to be floating, he painted dizzying grids and spheres in eye-popping colors. Describing the theme of much of his work, he said, "We're not going to get rid of chaos and complexity ... But we can find a way to live with them...
...which led me to the nearby Reina Sofia Museum. Merely 5 feet 4 inches tall, I gazed up at almost 12 feet of canvas. The painting left me dumb-struck as it brilliantly resonated with a passion, power, and emotion as if it were a living thing. The colossal mural commemorates the brutal aerial bombardment of the ancient Basque town Guernica by German and Italian squadrons during the Spanish Civil War. As a modern historical painting, it draws on archetypal images such as bulls, horses, and melancholy women—particularly Spanish themes but nevertheless universal. These images, fragmented...