Word: somethingness
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To be regarded as old hat was something new for Matisse. He had made his name in the preceding decade as the most dauntless of the Fauves - the Wild Beasts - a small group of painters who pushed the telegraphic brushwork of Impressionism and the dissonant palette of post-Impressionism into...
Even in his portraits, like The Italian Woman, Matisse could almost entirely transform the sitter, because he was confident that feeling in a painting was conveyed not by physical appearance or facial expression but by the sum of the impressions created by line and color. Often he began a picture...
'I feel insulted for being offered something which does not exist.'
Sarah Palin doesn't really do compromise. Defiance is more her style. So when other Republicans began to go soft on their promises to "repeal and replace" Barack Obama's landmark health care reform, the former Alaska governor went reliably rogue. Wearing a trim black leather jacket and pencil skirt...
The joint appearance was nostalgic and at times a little awkward. Palin gratefully credits McCain for her newfound fame, wealth and power. McCain is fascinated by Palin's ability to draw a crowd and make news; he also feels a sense of responsibility for the intense scrutiny and radical life...