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  1. May 2018
    1. And so, always listening to his mother — Whistler was kind of a Momma's boy — he did invite the press in to watch him work in the Peacock Room."

      mummy boy that will shows his mother's shadow in his artwork too which makes that the he will listen to his mother's ideas and use on his artwork.

    2. she thought he was working too hard, not eating, not sleeping:

      i think this shows that the artist paid and spent too much attention and energy on the artwork instead of taking care of the body.

    3. " This "Peacock Room Remix" looks as if a wrecking ball has been slammed into Whistler's work.

      im confuse about the different design and different perspective.

    4. Whistler paints his wealthy patron as a golden peacock, at one end of the dining room.

      in my perspective the different peacock rooms convey the different and represent different artist hence makes that intensely meaningful.

    5. "It's a world in which art has completely overtaken life."

      strong emotion message of the artist shows that the peacock room is the sensation work that in the world and hoe people respect and enjoy it hence that the peacock room can completely overtaken life.

    6. Even though it's a room, it's really a six-sided painting that you literally walk into," she says.

      the unique room of the peacock room and also it express the sense of the focusing on the details of the roo.

    7. Here, Waterston says he wanted to show the volatility of beauty.

      writer makes the clear massage that he wanted to show the volatility of beauty and how he changes his mood and artistic creation.

    8. Curator Lee Glazer agrees that the Peacock Room is a completely immersive experience.

      the famous artist that made the announcement that the peacock room is sensational and beautiful.

    9. Blue is my favorite color, and whenever I wear jewelry it's gold,"

      strong and clear message from the artist which explain and show that artist used his favorite colour for the gallery also shows the strong personality in the gallery.

    10. Gilded shelves hold priceless Asian ceramics. It's an expensive, lavish cocoon, rich in beauty with a dab of menace.

      this shows that how artist convey the feelings through the sensation artwork and how expensive and mind blowing that gallery is.

    11. Its blue-green walls are covered with golden designs and painted peacocks

      the details for the inside of the gallery after i checked the website and the pictures, the details and the images of the peacock and the colours are matching each other, also the sense of asian cultural from the gallery is strong and eye-catching.

    12. An artist has just converted a legendary piece of 19th-century art into an utter ruin. And two Smithsonian institutions — the Freer and Sackler galleries of Asian art — have given their blessings.

      the writer giving the strong message at the beginning to catch the reader's attention.

    1. Nearly all the most adventurous artists in Whistler’s generation responded avidly to Japanese aesthetics.

      mention the asian cultural again, asian cultural strongly affect all the artists also whistler.

    2. He closed the room’s three sets of tall shutters, and painted them and the walls Prussian blue and resonant blue-greens, gilded the shelving, covered the neo-Gothic ribbed ceiling

      the details in his house and showed how professional of his creative skills are, and the modern art techniques depends on the modern designer and the options that they make the choice.

    3. a sun-dappled Chinese pavilion—with walls covered in embossed and floral-patterned, bright-yellow leather

      designer has convey the different ideas compare to the old one, but both are all used the Asian cultural but use though the different way.

    4. The Leyland bird is pompous and hectoring, with a breast of gold and platinum coins, windmilling wings, and an immense explosion of tail feathers

      the outlook of the bird and making a connection with the colours convey his emotions through the work.

    5. She is the subject of my favorite of his paintings, “Symphony in Flesh Color and Pink,” from 1871-74, which is now in the Frick.

      we can understand that the colour and the place that her favorite place

    6. “Harmony in Blue and Gold: The Peacock Room,” which, since 1923, has been the star attraction of the Freer Gallery, a museum rich in Asian and Islamic art, in Washington, D.C.

      the information of the museum and the history of the peacock room and how multicultural in the peacock room.

    7. A mania for things Asian raged in England then

      asian cultural is slowing into the western country and also asian cultural design is getting popular in everywhere in the world.

    8. Liverpool shipowner who used the room’s wall shelves to display his vast collection of blue-and-white Chinese porcelains

      a brief information about the interior designer's display of his house and the inside detail of the room design.

    1. That’s wabi-sabi — embracing the imperfect and the impermanence of nature... and life.

      the perfection is not something that we live for, perfection is something that we stay with, to enjoy and challenge for. its just the process in our life.

    2. Generations that went through war and deprivation understand that what’s important is life,

      this shows that people who has trouble to live and spent their life that live is a really important thing for them

    3. My aesthetic yardstick is, and always has been, comfort

      mention comfort again to show that the writer is really focus and care about the comfort and enjoyable.

    4. I never had to unlearn this style because I’ve never been fastidious

      this is the strong message of wabi-sabi also nothing in the world is perfect, she made herself in the position which is really professional because she made a clear message that she is not chasing excessive perfection.

    5. If the scale of upholstered furniture is slightly off? If some turned table legs are cabriolet and others are claw and ball?

      the strong messages from her work every time when she has to face the problems from consumers.

    6. My aesthetic yardstick is, and always has been, comfort.

      comfort highlighted the whole sentence also highlight the important massage from interior design.

    7. Instead of waiting for wear and tear to happen naturally, throw something imperfect into the tableau so the wait’s over.

      this shows and gives the designer a right speech because designer can't design something that is perfect in the consumer's mind and their options.

    8. “drop” a glass of red wine onto the rug and then grind a little foie gras into the stain immediately,

      the metaphor of drop gives audience and readers to understand that the gras and glass even more.

    9. No oxygen left in the composition for laughter or old people or anyone who doesn’t have perfect balance.

      the repeat language technique highlight that strong massage from the writers.

    10. Every now and then, a client will tell me how they want their home to look, and I cringe

      the real persona and strong personality through her way to starts with the conversation.

    1. He found that people wanted to be able to go into a store and not have to wait for help

      this shows that in his perspective that retail store's staff needs to know everything and consumers are not coming here for help.

    2. “The stylistic changes in 1930s retail were starting to reflect ideas of streamlining

      highlight the time that retail store started becoming to the zombie mall

    3. every city worth its salt had a department store downtown—and they just grew bigger and bigge

      government doesn't think and cost a lot money for the department store that is the reason why the retail store becomes zombie mall.

    4. In New York City, A.T. Stewart pioneered this new format: his eight-story, 19-department “Iron Palace” offered goods carefully curated from around the world—from clothes to carpets, toys to china—for fixed prices, meaning no haggling was necessarily

      all the luxury items which all from the world makes the whole department store looks more expensive.

    5. The big difference was at a department store, all the individual shops belonged to the same business, so they had consistent policies.

      all the department store are under the same police which shows that department are controlling everything

    6. Of course, markets and bazaars featuring different vendors selling a variety of goods existed long before the department store.

      this shows that in the different retail store still sell the convenient items not just the old store only sell the expensive items, and it's more visual and real that consumers can smell or touch the stuff instead of online shopping.

    7. “In the mid-century, convenience was defined as a place to shop within your town. Our notion of convenience now is not leaving our houses.”

      the strong emotional quote that highlighted the whole article and compare the modern life and the previous life style.

    8. “To most people, they were aspirational spaces celebrating what you couldn’t have, unless you were extremely wealthy.

      strongly highlight that only wealthy people will go to the retail store in the old time, the more your'e wealthy the more retail stores you can go in.

    9. “In the early 20th century, department stores, located downtown, were opulent and over the top, reflecting the Victorian and Edwardian obsession with excess and wealth,”

      in 20 century, all the retail stores are located at main city area which reflects how important that retail stores are and only wealthy people will purchase items from retail store.

    10. Ultimately, Loewy didn’t just alter American style or tastes, he changed the way Americans consume.

      loewy is the person who changed American's taste and style and changed the consume, this proved that loewy started the situation that retail store became to zombie mall.

    11. untended planters near the darkened rest areas for bored dads, and empty indoor storefronts—the discolored shadows of their missing lighted signs lingering like ghosts.

      the details of the inside retail store shows the emptiness and scariness that happened in the retail store.

    12. Current numbers predict more than 200 existing big malls will collapse in the next 10 years.

      the big number of the shopping malls will collapse in the next 10 years also people are less interest to go to the retail store to purchase items.

    13. he once-vibrant shopping mall has one foot in the grave these days. About 20 percent of the 2,000 largest U.S. malls were failing in 2008, and by 2012, only 1,513 remained in operation.

      the big amount of the shopping centers are closed at the first sentence, it also gives the readers to understand the seriousness of the shopping mall becomes to zombie mall.

    1. “Why does design history still teach about male designers 80% more than women designers?

      the unfairness of women and man designer and it shows the number amount of the designer are way more of man designers are way more than womens also in design history still teach and educate male designer this shows that people still care about man designer.

    2. Why is it important to talk about the women of graphic design, specifically? What are the issues women still face in the design field? To better understand these questions, I sought out different voices from within the spectrum of graphic design.

      writer used the question sentences to catch the writer's attention and question the writer how important the women designer is.

    3. In a basic sense, women’s careers have rarely followed the same path of men’s,

      from the work industry, people still can't follow the gender equality, people think women can't achieve and don't believe female can do the job as good as man.

    4. In the design field, many women may have been assistants or “office girls” and so few held the top titles

      women has been defined as "office girl" or "assistance girl", it's really disrespectful to the women designer.

    5. In the UK it is lower, although the Design Council research found that 70% of design students in the UK are women, but 60% of the industry is male.

      the different in uk that female designer are more than male designer compare to uk the women designers are way more than male designer.

    6. The National Education Association reports of 2011 estimated that 54% of all US designers in the profession are women.

      this data shows the small amount of the women designer that found in design industry.

    7. three hundred and twenty-three independent designers listed — twenty-two women

      the huge amount of number of graphic designer but only 22 women, the contrast of the male and female designers also express that women designer is not as many as men designer.

    8. We are learning about the many designers and movements essential to the narrative of graphic design.

      the brief information of how she was learning about the designers and movements in graphic design.

    9. Women of Graphic Design, talks through some of the issues facing women in the past, and regrettably, in our industry today.

      she makes the important speech for the graphic women designer and also in now days the issues are still ongoing and happening on the women graphic designers.

    10. But why is retrospective accreditation important? And if it is getting better, do we need to keep talking about it?

      a question sentence to let readers the think that how it will getting better and to change.

    11. And while we can claim more progressive (and equal) laws and beliefs in present day society, the disparity between male and female representation in design lingers on

      even though people think male and female are equal in society but the female graphic designer has been unfair.

    12. that the presence of female designers missing from the history of graphic design is a sore oversight of the profession

      highlight the women right in design industry also in the design history, graphic design is a fading away.

    13. Women in Graphic Design (and why we need to talk about them)

      eye catching title also can let reader to deeply understand the situation of womens in graphic design.

    1. For much of its history London had been associated with poor living conditions and disease.

      From this information we can see that the construction was destroying the london living condition and it also shows that the london living condition was really bad and unhealthy.

    2. not just for its contribution to public health but also for its potential parallels to Cycle Space

      this is not the small healthy problems of the contribution in the society at that time, its the relate to the living environment.

    3. It was a tangible dimension of the newly established Welfare State.

      this expresses that this is the only way and result that to build a newly established welfare state.

    4. Again the catalyst was in part a disaster - the havoc wreaked by the Luftwaffe and the need for rapid reconstruction - and the solution was political

      this described the war and the consequences that happened after the war and the process of the war. the outcome of the war is really bad and it looks like a disaster.

    5. Of course, the fire and resulting devastation meant that much of London had to be rebuilt, and that these buildings would be brick.

      this information shows how seriousness that the event happened in london.

    6. I believe that cycling might just be the catalyst for a 21st Century urban renaissance.

      from this i can feel the writer has the confidences to say this and as the time going longer bicycle and cycle city will get develop and improvement.

    7. However, the real question is: will cycling actually change the city?

      the reason why the writer thinks about this question is that the good development for city and towards the good changing to the surrounding environment.

  2. Apr 2018
    1. Towards the end of my trip, it occurred to me that this explosion in cycling, ought to be put into an historic context, in order to enable the politicians and the public to recognize the scale of the opportunity, the change it might bring to our cities and our lives.

      the outcome that writer has been researched that the bike is starting to explore to everywhere in the country.

    2. When we were in Chicago at the end of June, the city launched its own bike share scheme.

      writer tells that Chicago as the bike share scheme which hint that the main city is starting to change and encourage that cycling city is important especially for the city like Chicago.

    3. I believe so. I believe that cycling might just be the catalyst for a 21st Century urban renaissance.

      writer conveys the strong message through the way of how writer has the confidence that bike can change the environment to more cycling.

    4. Wikipedia reports that there are 535 cycle-share schemes in 49 countries, employing more than half a million bikes worldwide.

      this shows the how important to keep the environment cycle and cleanly, also shows that global is all focusing on the environmental problems.

    5. There are now more than 8,000 Boris Bikes and 550+ docking stations in Central London.

      the huge amount number of the bike to highlight the bikes number which convey the important massages .

    6. London’s cycle hire scheme, named after mayor Boris Johnson – was the clearest indication to date that cycling was no longer just for a minority of fanatics but a healthy

      in my perspective, the use of bike is for changing and developing less pollution for the surrounding environment.