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 WASHINGTON Paintings and photographs depicting the raw reality of the Civil War marked a major change in American art that tossed out romantic notions of war.Some of the finest artist stanley cups uk s of the day, including Winslow Homer, Eastman Johnson, Frederic Church and Sanford Gifford, pa stanley cup spain inted landscapes and scenes of everyday life to show how the war transformed the nation. Their best works, along with some of the first photographs of soldiers killed on the battlefield, have been gathered by the Smithsonian American Art Museum for a major exhibition on how artists represented the war and how the war changed art.  The Civil War and American Art  is on view in Washington through April and then moves to New York s Metropolitan Museum of Art.Curator Eleanor Jones Harvey spent years researching the project and borrowing many of the 75 works featured in the show. It features Civil War scenes from Washington, Baltimore, New York, and points south at Fort Sumter, Charleston, S.C., Georgia and Virginia.Rather than make portraits of war generals and heroes, however, artists of the day focused on the common man. There was a realization that  art that presents normal human beings, rather than celebrities and luminaries, carries more lasting weight. O stanley cup ne painting in the show, Gifford s 1862 painting  Preaching to the Troops,  depicting a scene near Washington, was displayed in the Oval Office for 13 years.        Photographs had perhaps the greatest impact on art of the era. Battlefield photographs  Vubz These Magical Landscapes Are Actually Photos of Plastic Bags
 See this man  Well, on last night   episode of The Strain 鈥?despite having starred in several scenes of two previous episodes 鈥?this man finally met a goddamn vampire. Let me explain why this is such a big deal.     The main problem with The Strain 鈥?well, besides a plethora of tiny but nevertheless baffling plot holes, but more on that in a second 鈥?is that Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan seem to be merely transposing their best-selling book into a 13-episode show, and not adapting it. The patience readers give a book is not what viewers bring to a show, when episodes are the smallest denomination of how t stanley cup he story is broken down. If you sat d stanley hrnek own and marathoned six episodes of The Strain, I think the stanley cup  story would seem pretty solid. As episodes that get released week to week, however, the stories are being told slowly and stiltingly, so that it   episode five before a major character even has an inkling of what the hell is happening. Thank the Master that we ;ve finally gotten to the part where pretty much everybody is more or less involved in the main story, at least tangentially. That includes everyone from Horrible Lawyer Lady, who is finally albeit slowly vamping out while threatening to sue the CDC for having the gall to being concern she might have a deadly virus after being on a plane that contained a deadly virus. It also includes Vasiliy the Pest Control Guy above, who wandered into the sewers to see what all the rats are running from and discovered

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 Legendary film composer John Williams, the man behind the music for all six Star Wars films and master of the science fictional leitmotif, will return to score Star Wars: Episode VII! Here   what he has to say about his return to the Star Wars universe 鈥?including his thoughts on director J.J. Abrams. Williams clearly hopes to feature past themes in his new score, though he admits he still hasn ;t seen Episode VII   script 鈥?but then, he says, that   part of his process: I always prefer not to read scripts, and even no to hear stories and look at cue cards and so on, and wait for the moment of discovery, with the audien stanley cup ce, of the film itself. so I ;m as surprised as they are, and I know where to put the surprise button, having not been prepared by a script. I ;m waiting anxiously like the audience around the world to find out what the surprises are and discover what my continuing role is going to be. He also  perhaps unsurprisingly  gives a glowing endorsement to both Lucasfilms president Kathleen Kennedy and J.J. Abrams: They are two people that I think are perfectly chosen to continue George Lucas ; great odyssey. They ;re both young, they ;re both extremely gifted. Have tremendous energy I think the combination of their youth and their experience and their energy and gifts 鈥?stanley botella  if I ;d been asked 鈥?I wasn ;t 鈥?but if I ;d been asked by the various boards of directors:  82 botella stanley 20;Find me two people to take this project

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