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Henri Matisse
You must forget all your theories, all your ideas before the subject. What part of these is really your own will be expressed in your expression of the emotion awakened in you by the subject.
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Leo Ornstein
Leo Ornstein
An American experimental composer and pianist of the early twentieth century.
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Jean-Baptiste-Claude Delisle de Sales
Jean-Baptiste-Claude Delisle de Sales
A French philosopher noted for his multi-edition, multi-volume opus The Philosophy of Nature: Tre...
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Anthony van Dyck
Anthony van Dyck
A Flemish Baroque artist who became the leading court painter in England after success in the Sou...
Hendrik Lorentz
Hendrik Lorentz
A Dutch physicist who shared the 1902 Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery and theoretical ex...
Mark Twain
Mark Twain
American author and humorist, often called The Father of American Literature
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Glenn T. Seaborg
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Hogarth's anti-progress: how the father of British painting went missing from our galleries

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It is 250 years since William Hogarth died, so I decided to visit him. I set out to Tate Britain to see his pugnacious self-portrait, painted in 1745. Hogarth depicts himself as the archetypal British painter, tougher, more streetwise and more witty than all those European daubers whose works were coveted by the aristocrat collectors of his day.You can see those continental masters, adeptly parodied, cluttering the walls of a noble mansion in the first painting in his visual narrative Marriage à-la-Mode, at the National Gallery. Medusa’s head and a slathering of nudes hang in dimly lit magnificence as a marriage settlement is brokered between a noble in need of cash and a merchant who wants to give his family blue blood. All that posh art, for Hogarth, is a kind of moral poison, whose corrupting cynicism helps bring about the impotence, adultery, duelling, syphilis and deaths that unfold in the next five scathing satirical paintings.Before Hogarth, there was not really any such thing as British art. There was art made in Britain, by such great European masters as Rubens and Van Dyck. But it was Hogarth who created the idea of a British school, a British style. This...

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On the Medieval and the Modern: Reading Nicholas of Cusa
In addressing not only the Conciliarist controversy of his day but issues of civil and ecclesiastical government and challenges to the Church, from reform movements to the division between Catholic and Orthodox traditions, Nicholas of Cusa (1401–64) continues to provoke responses. Som...
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How we made the microprocessor
Computers were, at first, a decidedly unintegrated technology. They were composed of vacuum tubes, resistors, capacitors, inductors and mercury delay lines, and as a result were huge, expensive and power hungry. The situation improved with developments in microelectronics based on solid-state ger...
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