The next major change in Winslow Homer's life was a decision to work in a new medium.
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Syndicated talk radio shows, such as those headed by conservative Rush Limbaugh, have given new life to the medium (radio actually reaches more households today than television).
Those conditions came happily together in Chagall's wonder years of 1911-17: new idioms in art, the persistence of Hasidic life in the shtetl, and an artist who found distance enough to reconfigure that life in the universal medium of paint.