No matter the medium, the Smith sisters communicate in the language of art.

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Frankenthaler's achievement is to have put the language of abstraction to the service of art's historic need to address large ideas.

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Even though languages have not been a priority for the school in the past, he wants to invest in "state of the art" language facilities.

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Like the Neanderthals, the newcomers had been busy, too, developing advanced tools and weapons, better navigational skills, trade, complex language, art and other forms of symbolic thinking.

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Visual art also transcends the barrier of language, making both the work and message able to be viewed by a global audience.

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The Mets may or may not sign Michael Bourn, but in their dealings with the center fielder, they've at least given baseball something new: the vaguely public contract negotiation as impenetrable art, along the lines of language poetry.

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Finally, this past visit, after she had organized an intensive summer course in History, Language and Art for her grandchildren, I gave her a small gift of cash, amid dire warnings to apply it to nothing other than a laptop that she would then use to start a blog.

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Their art is considered an emblem of national identity and the guardian of Azerbaijani language, literature and music.

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