Word: watercolor
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Deep in the Prado Museum's massive new Goya exhibition hangs a muted watercolor titled One Can't Look. Completed some time in the years before 1815, it depicts a prisoner, his torso draped in cloth, with ropes dangling from his tensed limbs. There is no hood over his head, no box beneath his feet, and what initially appear to be outstretched arms turn out, upon closer inspection, to be tattered folds of cloth. Yet it is almost impossible to look at this small work and not be reminded of the more recent image of a hooded prisoner...
...idea was brilliant. “Artists often inspire poets, and poetry inspires visual artists,” she says. “There’s a lot of back and forth.” The poetry of Wordsworth, one of her inspirations, was featured next to her watercolor representations of the countryside. She feels connected to Wordsworth’s poetry because, although Breeden uses a different medium, they both are inspired by the English countryside and convey it through their work. Sifuentes’ concept opened up new doors of inspiration for Adams House government, religion...
CAUGHT BETWEEN TWO WORLDS Deena S. Shakir ’08, who visited Iraq twice as a toddler, said she only has "watercolor memories" of the land where her parents were born...
...CORRECTION: The March 18 news article "Watercolor Memories" gave an incorrect location for a 2005 model United Nations conference, which was held in Cambridge and not New York City. The article also stated that Deena S. Shakir '08 has completed a citation in Arabic. Although the joint Social Studies and Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations concentrator has taken classes in Arabic, she has not received a citation in the language...
CLARIFICATIONS:The March 18 news article "Watercolor Memories" did not completely represent the topic of Deena S.Shakir's '08 thesis. Although Shakir did interview first generation Arab-Americans as the article stated, her thesis is focused on the change in Arab identity since Sept. 11. The article also provided an incomplete view of Shakir's opinion of Iraq. Although she did say, "I would blame Saddam as much as America for the way Iraq is now," Shakir is not "ambivalent" about the "results of [American] invasion," as the article stated, but places blame for the state of Iraq...