Word: quaintest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There were, of course, problems of assimilation. When John Singleton Copley (1738-1815) went to Italy, he also struggled to resolve them in his first European picture, an Ascension (1775), which must be one of the quaintest homages to Raphael ever made. But in the same year he met two wealthy American tourists and painted their portrait...
...mania; art buyers want to have value lists analogous to the Dow Jones charts. Unfortunately, the statistics are nearly always incomplete, inaccurate and full of special pleading; even so, they have helped crystallize the fantasy that the desire for art can somehow be statistically measured. By far the quaintest manifestation of this to date has been a rating system cobbled together by a young financial tipster named Willi Bongard, which recently appeared in Capital (a monthly German management magazine) and was reported in the Wall Street Journal. His artcom-pass purports to grade the world's 100 greatest artists...