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Guy Pène du Bois
Guy Pène du Bois , 1884-1958, American painter and critic, b. Brooklyn, N.Y.; studied under William Chase and in Paris. In New York City after 1906 he worked as a reporter and art critic for various newspapers and edited Arts and Decoration. The wry humor of his early paintings of social... Read more |
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school of Paris
school of Paris The center of international art until after World War II, Paris was a mecca for artists who flocked there to participate in the most advanced aesthetic currents of their time. The school of Paris is not one style; the term describes many styles and movements. The practitioners and... Read more |
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Georges Michel
Michel, Georges (b Paris, 12 Jan. 1763; d Paris, 7/8 June 1843). French landscape painter. He achieved little recognition in his lifetime, but he is now regarded as an important forerunner of the Barbizon School. His paintings were influenced by 17th-century Dutch artists (he worked as a copyist... Read more |
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Synchromism
Synchromism. An abstract or semi-abstract movement in painting, closely related to Orphism, founded in 1912 by Stanton Macdonald-Wright and Morgan Russell, two young American artists living in Paris. The term, meaning literally ‘colours together', was coined by Russell on the analogy of... Read more |
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Alfred Henry Maurer
Alfred Henry Maurer , 1868-1932, American painter, b. New York City. He was apprenticed as a lithographer, taught himself painting, and went to Europe in 1897, studying briefly at the Académie Julian, Paris. While in Paris he was the first American painter to take a significant interest in... Read more |
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James Gordon Bennett (1841-1918)
James Gordon Bennett 1841-1918, American newspaper proprietor, b. New York City; son of James Gordon Bennett . Educated mostly in France, he took over (1867) from his father the management of the New York Herald. In 1869-71 he financed Henry Stanley 's expedition into Africa to find David ... Read more |
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Ernest Lawson
Ernest Lawson 1873-1939, American landscape painter, b. San Francisco. He studied art in Kansas City, in New York City under Twachtman and J. Alden Weir, and in Paris. On returning to New York he joined the independent artists' group called the Eight . His impressionist landscapes won him many... Read more |
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Henry Ossawa Tanner
Henry Ossawa Tanner 1859-1937, American painter, b. Pittsburgh; son of a bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. He studied with Eakins in Philadelphia and in Paris. Tanner made many trips to Palestine to obtain background for his religious paintings. His work is naturalistic, and the... Read more |
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Balcomb Greene
Greene, Balcomb (1904–1990). American painter, born at Niagara Falls. He began to paint seriously in 1931 without formal training, having previously studied psychology (he did postgraduate work under Freud in Vienna) and taught English literature. In 1931–3 he lived in Paris, and on... Read more |
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John Vanderlyn
John Vanderlyn , 1776-1852, American portrait and historical painter, b. Kingston, N.Y. Under the patronage of Aaron Burr he studied with Gilbert Stuart and in Paris. From 1796 to 1815 much of his life was spent in Paris and in Rome. He achieved a high reputation with such compositions as Marius... Read more |
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Armory Show
...seriously skewed notion of the new artistic movements then maturing. Few noticed the American works at all. A triumph of promotion rather than taste, the Armory Show intimidated mature realistic painters and convinced many younger artists that to succeed... |
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Cohan, George M(ichael)
...successes were in other men's plays. In 1933 he scored a singular triumph as Nat Miller in Eugene O'Neill's Ah, Wilderness!, then in...Prichard Eaton's condemnation of Cohan for “his lack of good taste and his lack of a real knowledge of the world” typified many... |
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Romanticism
...the most abstract terms, Romanticism may be regarded as the triumph of the values of imaginative spontaneity, visionary originality, wonder...mechanically bound by artificial ‘rules’ of neo-classical taste. Well above Horace or Juvenal they revered Shakespeare and... |
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Wyndhams Theatre
...Laureola (1948), with Edith Evans; Peter Ustinov had a personal triumph in his own play The Love of Four Colonels (1951), as did...It closed in 1959 and was succeeded by Shelagh Delaney's A Taste of Honey, the first of four transfers of productions by Theatre... |
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Creole creations are terrific taste triumph
...dessert - my partner's pecan and bourbon tart with honeycomb cream, which was declared to be a taste sensation, and my Mississippi mud pie, a triumph in sticky chocolate. JRooL's Jason Campbell and Wesley Birch were masterful in the kitchen... |
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Accounting for Taste: the Triumph of French Cuisine.(Book Review)
Accounting for Taste The Triumph of French Cuisine Priscilla Parkhurst...interesting to see in Accounting For Taste: the Triumph of French Cuisine that...also be called 'Not Accounting for Taste', for as the Soyer title illustrates... |
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ASIAN TASTES TRIUMPH OVER EUROPEAN AND AMERICAN FLAVOURS IN...
...below.) MEDIA RELEASE PR46525 Asian Tastes Triumph Over European and American Flavours in...now travelling to the country itself to taste the food on home soil. Japan's signature...of vote, reflecting how much British tastes have changed; ten years ago sushi ... |
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You can't beat the taste of triumph in the garden.(News)
...well and the birds can't cope with the acid taste, so they leave them alone. So why do we insist...for three or four years, you can't beat the taste of triumph over the elements and triumph over the slugs and pigeons. |
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Accounting for Taste: The Triumph of French Cuisine.(Book Review)
Accounting for Taste: The Triumph of French Cuisine By Priscilla Parkhurst...idea provides ballast to Accounting for Taste. Priscilla Parkhurst Ferguson sets...to become a cuisine. Accounting for Taste develops that argument precisely and... |
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Taste of triumph
Intan Maizura Ahmad Kamal New Straits Times 11-04-2007 Taste of triumphByline: Intan Maizura Ahmad KamalEdition: New Sunday...Lord Krishna set out to destroy the demon. Deepavali, the triumph of good over evil, is the festival that marks the day of Narakasura... |
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Taste triumph as coffee supplier launches its 'signature' blend.(Sport)
...based enterprise is now marketing Grand Milano, which it is aiming to make a "signature" own brand. And, following a blind taste test, a Manchester restaurant - Dimitris - has agreed to sell the blend. Miko believes the new roast could constitute 30... |
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Taste can indeed triumph over the pocketbook Basics
...New York Times International Herald Tribune 07-02-2009 Taste can indeed triumph over the pocketbook BasicsByline: John Tierney The New York...priced candies and entrees? Why did they follow their own tastes? "Maybe, sometimes, old-fashioned economics is just... |
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Taste buds triumph at Aurora's Soul Fest.(Neighbor)
...chicken, black-eyed peas, butter beans, sweet corn, cornbread and collard greens. Soul food represents the triumph of taste buds over adversity, Perry said. "Chicken and pork were the meats blacks had during that particular time," she... |
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A tin of lager and the taste of triumph in the heartland Elationin the...
...And then there are the threats on the gables reminding you of sleeping giants - the UVF, the UDA, the UFF, and their past triumphs: "Gino. Rot in hell." I met a man who had served time in jail as a paramilitary. After he was released, the IRA came... |
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