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Kauai gardens saving unique beauty
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KALAHEO, Kauai » Working in a botanical garden might seem to offer mainly quiet days of watering and pruning.
But at National Tropical Botanical Garden headquartered on Kauai, resident scientists face the challenge of snatching Pacific islands' quickly disappearing plants from the brink of extinction.
One adventure included a careful trek over ordnance-riddled Kahoolawe to find the last two representatives of an ancient plant.
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In Your Face.(Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres exhibit, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York)
Magazine article from: National Review
; ...of at the time. And how did Ingres respond to this most personal...the Goncourt brothers compared Ingres's life's work unfavorably...as the very God of Drawing, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres suffered such attacks without...
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PORTRAIT OF LOUIS-FRANCOIS BERTIN (1832) Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres MUSEEDULOUVRE, PARIS
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...self-made man. And that gives Ingres his metaphor. Like General Smith...a construction from parts. Ingres's painting is a prosthetic...Was Made Up. About the artist Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780-1867) saw himself as...
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El pintor que quería ser músico.(Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres)(TT: The painter who wanted to be a musician.)(TA: Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres)
Magazine article from: Epoca
; ...caballeros. Retratos de Ingres se llama la exposicin...prximo 25 de abril. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780-1867) fue...que triunf de verdad Jean Auguste Dominique fue en la pintura...algunos del Museo Ingres de Montauban, adems...
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Portrait Perfect; Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres Elevated His Subjects to a Higher Form
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
; Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres was the painter the modernists warned...swiftly painted, out-of-focus art. Ingres, at the height of his 60-year career...almost make one swoon. One hundred Ingres portraits--60 pencil drawings and...
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Visual arts: Adventures in the skin trade Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres had a thing about power. About sex. About plump flesh. And he loved a frock. By Tom Lubbock
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...oversight, but I'm not sure. Ingres (for it is he) was a precocious...This wasn't always obvious. Jean- Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780- 1867) used to be one...But going round Portraits by Ingres, which opens at the National...
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Art: The Midas Touch The great 19th-century painter Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, himself an ardent and excessive man, endowed his subjects with supreme self-confidence in their wealth, their health and their sexuality. An exhibition of his iconic portraits opens in London this month
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...receives from the magnificent exhibition of Ingres portraits at the National Gallery is of...infinitely more benign painter than many of Ingres' pronouncements would lead one to expect...obvious clues planted in his pictures, Ingres is quite simply his own man, from first...
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Ingres at the Metropolitan.
Magazine article from: New Criterion
; ...clothes, John Singer Sargent, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres hated painting portraits. It...brush, and the severe, reserved Ingres, no less adept at conjuring...genre. "Cursed portraits!" Ingres famously declared. "They always...
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A Mirror on the Past, a Discerning Eye on the Present / Ingres' dazzling portraits bring history alive in Washington.(Review)
Newspaper article from: San Francisco Chronicle
; "Portraits by Ingres: Image of an Epoch," which opened...thrilling show might have caused Ingres himself to despair. For much of...immensely successful career, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780-1867) thought of portraits...
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Painted Ladies of Ingres Does the Decorative Surface Reveal the Sitter's Soul?
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune
; ...surfaces of the paintings of Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres have been held up to scrutiny...themselves through their clothes. ''Ingres in Fashion: Representations of Dress and Appearance in Ingres's Images of Women'' (Yale...
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Ingres preview leaves impression.(Metropolitan Times)(Party Lines)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times
; ...opening this week of "Portraits by Ingres: Images of an Epoch," a rich...19th-century French painter Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres on view through Aug. 22. Since...would rather be painted by him. Ingres has a more direct style; his...
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