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In 1908, New York merchant Thomas Sullivan packaged tea samples into hand-sewn muslin bags, intending for his customers to empty the leaves into hot water. Some though, unsure what to do, submerged them in their tea pot and the tea bag... As they set about following the migration paths that had been trodden for centuries before them, setting up camps and providing for the necessities of life, ancient people managed to surround themselves with sanctus luxurii, an ensemble... Ancient trade originated in the migratory patterns of prehistoric nomadic people who ranged over long distances across the continents of Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, and South America, for thousands of years... |
 One of the highlights of the exhibition is the recreation of a 1900s room in Art Nouveau style, indicating that another key feature of the movement was the way that people began to appreciate furniture, interior and products as aspects of an environment unified through design...newly rich people wanted to decorate their home in their own, new style..."  "Throughout its history, tea has been a prevalent theme in the visual arts — tea-related scenes embellish ceramics and textiles and form the subject of paintings and drawings, and all manner of vessels have been fashioned for its preparation and presentation."  "For Wei, poetry was a habit, a mode of autobiography and being. He lived at a time and in a place when, whatever else was going on, educated people wrote poems the way we text or tweet. Wei somewhat dolefully observes..."  In Sargent and the Sea, the Corcoran Gallery of Art brings together for the first time more than 80 paintings, watercolors, and drawings depicting seascapes and coastal...  "To find out that it might be early harp music was very exciting indeed, and having the chance to hear it..."  "With my imagination struck by the immensity and power of Nature, I would have really wanted to render the grand spectacles that she unrolls..." |
 These three painters were to rub shoulders for over thirty years, and after Titian’s death in 1576..  In Camille Pissarro’s rural images of harvesting and shepherding, sensuous color is often a gradually nuanced pool of light that mirrors the movement..."  "Son regard de peintre en matière de couleur et de composition, sa passion pour l’exotisme et ses innovations dans le domaine du verre font de lui, dès 1900, un chef de file du design américain dont la réputation s’étend jusque dans les grandes capitales européennes : il rivalise avec les grands verriers européens de la fin du XIXe siècle."  "For scientists, beads are not simply decoration, they also represents a specific technology that conveys information through a shared coded language."  "Sir Thomas Lawrence and John Singer Sargent both adopted a kind of buttery, flashy paint-handling that derives from Velázquez..."  The Impressionist engagement of nature concurred with the primal human experience of nature, which depended on submitting life to both the measured...  "The Shang and Zhou eras are pictured as a golden age where everyone knew his or her place in the great harmonious hierarchy of Chinese life. Rulers ruled and everyone farmed..." |
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