Word: picassos
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...first case, the Court ruled unconstitutional a system used by the undergraduate admissions office, which awarded a fixed number of points to all minority candidates in the admissions process. In the ruling, Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist explained that a student with artistic talent rivaling Picasso would only receive a 5 point (out of 100) boost, while minority students would automatically get 20 points. This example came from the Harvard brief, which stated that the Picasso candidate would probably get accepted instead of a minority candidate, assuming both were competing for a few remaining spots...
...typifies the work of a group of artists that emerged in Halle and Berlin and used elements of Cubism and Expressionism. Sitte's construction worker sits cross-legged on a steel beam reading a book with a meditative expression. "Here you can see how he was intensely working through Picasso," says März, pointing to the typical Cubist angular forms and distortions. A few years later, Sitte denounced this style and swore allegiance to the party line. He enjoyed a successful career as East Germany's top artist and president of the Artists' Federation of the G.D.R. (He also...
...existence as artists," he once wrote, "superfluous and egotistic as we are, is to confront people with the image of their destiny." But first, where to find a visual language commensurate with the horrors seen and the ones to come? Even before the war, the Cubism of Picasso and Braque had been of little interest to him. But by 1914 Beckmann was a medical orderly in the trenches of Flanders. The Belgian front, where he suffered a severe nervous breakdown, would show him fractured form with a vengeance. Especially after the raw meat and blasted earth of the trenches...
...deadly pastime. "What is extreme flying for me but a kind of dialogue?" he asks himself. "A conversation with myself about what I am capable of." Ramo's reverence for his fellow stunt pilots borders on the religious--he compares them variously with Yukio Mishima, John Coltrane and Pablo Picasso--and his lyrical flights sometimes lose the reader in the clouds. But when he's in the cockpit performing feats of gritty derring-do (and occasionally derring-don't), his airplane groaning and shuddering around him with the strain, the book soars. "Flight is a miracle that has been domesticated...
...noted “Lois Orswell, David Smith, and Modern Art” exhibition at the Fogg showcased works by Paul Cezanne, Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso. A distinguished collector, Lois Orswell bequeathed her collection to the Fogg five years ago, and the show was the first time her collection was shown as a cohesive group...