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...same time, Saddam noted -- and here I would like to convey what was said with almost a stenographer's accuracy -- the following: "As a realist I understand the true state of affairs. Yet I cannot resolve the question of Kuwait if it is not tied up with the solution to other problems of the region. I have already expressed this idea on Aug. 12. However, I want to make one thing clear ((and here Saddam was stepping back somewhat from his Aug. 12 statement)). The time linkage and the process leading to a solution of the Palestinian problem...
...Gonat, an early 17th century artist, highlights Rembrandt's unique style. Gonat's etching employs the same dramatic lighting so often associated with Rembrandt, but the effect is completely different. Gonat's precisely controlled technique renders the work sterile, though beautiful. In contrast, the Rembrandt etching infuses a detailed realist landscape with life...
...dryads, babies and damsels in his decorative paintings are boneless stereotypes. Ryder's attempts at decoration -- mirror frames, screens and so forth -- look naive and gaumless compared with the more polished work of Tiffany or John La Farge. Ryder was not sophisticated enough to rival them, while as a Realist he was stumped by a lack of curiosity about the actual, resistant world. You know at once that Ryder spent no time looking at a body and analyzing its structure. Instead he generalized, in conformity to what the sentiments of the day called "poesy." Therefore he was at the furthest...
...from the 1830s on, starting with Eugene Delacroix, had gone there in search of the picturesque, the exotic, the ready-made subject: mosques and Riffian horsemen, camels and harem slaves. By 1880 Orientalism had become a large fashion among salon painters and their clients. French artists brought their minutely realist style and their mildly prurient interests to Fez and Marrakech, and went back to Paris with both intact. To be influenced as a painter by Islamic art -- architecture, rugs, tiles, cloth, miniatures -- was inconceivable, like "going native." The imperious gaze went only one way; its view of Morocco was colonialism...
...Harumph," said my Realist side. On a rainy afternoon, post-collegiate life looms ahead like a string of paychecks due in the mail...