In the next, he would reject traditional artists' tools in favor of found objects, black tar paper (textured and pebbly and quite iridescent, giving the impression of a midnight sky) or sentimental postcards, eliminating, in a sense, all traces of technique and skill--and even of the artist (some of the "objects" were assembled by carpenters).

FORBES: Miro's Creative Destruction

The ancient Greeks and Romans understood this technique for creating the illusion of depth, but the skill was lost until Brunelleschi rediscovered it.

FORBES: Dome of the Brave

Just as slack productivity and skill shortages were concealed by finance-fuelled economic growth, beneath the players' renown lay a hobbling deficiency in technique.

ECONOMIST: The intertwined fates of a people and their football team