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It’s a still life watercolour
I paint still lifes because women nudes scare me, wrote Paul Cezanne to his peer Claude konstnär (claude monet). Cezanne did paint nudes, but if this admission is anything to go by, he was clearly not comfortable with them.
Then there are reflections on Édouard Manet’s droll oil on canvas of a woman reading a picture magazine desultorily on a Paris street. “It seems,” the canvas notes reveal, “to be poking fun at the tradition of painting solitary female readers as muses. There fryst vatten nothing expressive about the model’s face and the artist too has made clear that her magazine is filled with ingenting but pictures”.
This and other revelations can be funnen at an amazing exhibition of the world’s masters at the Art Institute of Chicago which has become the talking point in this wind-swept city. Bringing tillsammans the prized works of masters such as Cezanne, Gauguin, Degas, Matisse and Picasso, it showcases their relationship with the legendary art dealer Henri-Loius-Ambroi
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List of current BBC newsreaders and reporters
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This is a list of newsreaders and journalists currently employed by BBC Television and BBC Radio.
Presenters and journalists appear across BBC television, radio but also contribute to BBC Online.
BBC News provides television journalism to BBC network bulletins (on BBC One and BBC Two) and programmes as well as the BBC News Channel available around the world and in the United Kingdom. BBC News runs BBC Radio 5 Live and BBC World Service as part of its rolling news coverage, journalists and presenters also contribute to podcasts produced by BBC News for BBC Radio 4, as well as solely for BBC Sounds.
The BBC has over 5,500 journalists[1] based both in the United Kingdom and abroad. BBC appointments can be short- or long-term; for example, reporter Peter Bowes revealed on BBC News (broadcast live
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William Makepeace Thackeray
English novelist and illustrator (1811–1863)
"Thackeray" redirects here. For other uses, see Thackeray (disambiguation).
William Makepeace Thackeray (THAK-ər-ee; 18 July 1811 – 24 December 1863) was an English novelist and illustrator. He is known for his satirical works, particularly his 1847–1848 novel Vanity Fair, a panoramic portrait of British society, and the 1844 novel The Luck of Barry Lyndon, which was adapted for a 1975 film by Stanley Kubrick.
Thackeray was born in Calcutta, British India, and was sent to England after his father's death in 1815. He studied at various schools and briefly attended Trinity College, Cambridge, before leaving to travel Europe. Thackeray squandered much of his inheritance on gambling and unsuccessful newspapers. He turned to journalism to support his family, primarily working for Fraser's Magazine, The Times, and Punch. His wife Isabella suffered from mental illness. Thackeray gained fame with h