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As Picasso famously said, it's Cezanne's anxiety that is so interesting. But not only the anxiety. There are anxious mediocrities too. It's the achievement that counts. If Cezanne was not a heroic painter, the word means nothing. This was evident to some of his friends and contemporaries...
Nelson closed off with a quote from writer Emile Zola: "If you ask me what I came into this world to do I will tell you: I came to live out loud."
For these reasons the modern age of deep-sea exploration had to wait for two key technological developments: engineer Otis Barton's 1930 invention of the bathysphere--essentially a deep-diving tethered steel ball--and the invention of scuba (short for "self-contained underwater breathing apparatus") by Jacques-Yves Cousteau...
Emile Noide: The Painter's Prints
Fifty years before Andy Warhol highlighted Marilyn Monroe's features and repeatedly printed her face, the northern German artist Emile Nolde accentuated a woman's hair, lips and eyebrows in color lithographs to produce a very different effect. Nolde's prints of a "Young Danish Woman" (1913) appear aged, as...