[ noun ] British art critic (1819-1900) <noun.person>
Melanie Griffith has finally found her niche and is quite believable as Maria Ruskin, a manipulating bubblehead.
Ms. Reetz at Union Bank called the Schlesinger report "the most important news all day." "It's interesting that he's even thinking about lower interest rates," IDEA's Mr. Ruskin said.
'There is no art,' said Ruskin, 'among an agricultural people, if it remains at peace.
A watercolour by Turner, 'The Splugen Pass', was near the top of its estimate, selling for Pounds 242,000. It was painted in Switzerland in 1843 and in 1878 had been given to Ruskin by a group of his friends.
For Ruskin, in accusing him of 'flinging a pot of paint in the public's face', was accusing him of much more than mere charlatanry: he was saying that here was art that had no moral base, and no moral purpose to uplift and improve.
United Merchants' board authorized Mr. Ruskin on Sept. 6 to develop a proposal to acquire a controlling interest and implement a reorganization of the company.
Mrs. Thatcher can show that the "Victorian values" that she supports have room for some types of environmental ideals; the Victorian era produced John Ruskin as well as factory chimneys.
I read Ruskin on the sacredness of colour - 'the loveliest (colour) is melancholy'; on the snobbishness of English painters, and on the evil of decorating railway stations. At 7pm, Miss Lee burst into the room again.
His own extended pen-portraits of Byron, Boswell, Baudelaire, Hogarth, Ruskin and others may still be read with enjoyment. But Quennell's link with the FT was stronger than that of an occasional contributor.
And his famous libel suit of 1878 against John Ruskin, beyond all the legal fun and repartee, had a most serious point to it.