Word: painterly
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...Thyssen when the Dutch-born Swiss industrialist married Borja's mother, showed up with a notary at the Madrid museum in early November and filed notice that he was reclaiming two paintings. Borja said that the two works - Goya's Women with Two Children in Fountain and Italian Baroque painter Corrado Giaquinto's Baptism of Christ, believed to be worth 7 million euros, were promised him as gifts by his father...
...year it opened, Walter Gropius was a young German architect recovering from dual traumas--World War I and his turbulent first marriage to the formidable Alma Mahler. One of history's supreme narcissists, she betrayed her first husband, composer Gustav Mahler, by having affairs with both Gropius and painter Oskar Kokoschka. After Gustav's death, it was Gropius she wed, only to leap a few years later into the arms of writer Franz Werfel. (Watch TIME's video "The Haus of Modern Design...
...turning point came in 1923, when Gropius dismissed Itten and replaced him with the resolutely modern Hungarian Constructivist László Moholy-Nagy. In the same year, the school mounted an exhibition with the no-nonsense title "Art and Technology--A New Unity." The painter Oskar Schlemmer announced the back-on-track Bauhaus ethic in a polemic that was only partly tongue in cheek: "Death to the past, to moonlight, and to the soul...
Still, legal experts say executives and others could end up getting bitten when they hit "Reply." Law professor Richard Painter of the University of Minnesota says e-mail will continue to be admitted as evidence and play an important role, particularly in white-collar prosecutions. "The fact of the matter is that people say things they shouldn't by e-mail," says Painter. "So as long as we continue to use e-mail, you are going to see it in cases...
...this case the time was the years just before and after the start of the First World War, in 1914. That was when the multidirectional Czech painter Frantisek Kupka and the austere Russian Kazimir Malevich were in their different ways achieving escape velocity on canvas. And so was Kandinsky, who would become the most tireless apostle of an art that answered to nothing in the merely material world. Born in 1866 to a prosperous Moscow family, Kandinsky spent his 20s studying law and economics, all the while bending toward another calling. He was the sort of young man who could...