The New York Times Dimitri Ehrlich, who described the album as "an artistic and commercial benchmark", credited Rakim for helping "give birth to a musical genre" and leading "a quiet musical revolution, introducing a soft-spoken rapping style".
And aren't dispassion and nonjudgmentalism, as in Tough Love, unassailable benchmarks of artistic integrity and quality?
The belle of the MTV Movie Awards ball Sunday was surely Shailene Woodley, and though the awards are hardly known as benchmarks of artistic achievement, the actress had the biggest presence onstage throughout the night at the Nokia Theatre at L.A. Live, winning the Trailblazer Award, best female performance, best kiss (with costar Ansel Elgort) and movie of the year.
"The work I saw in the festival," he said of his time in Adelaide, "has absolutely informed my artistic practice and set a benchmark for every festival experience since then".
Painted white and silk-screened red and blue, the wooden boxes mimicked the 60s cardboard packaging for Brillo pads and represented a benchmark in Warhol's artistic output.
Citing songs such as "Life's A Bitch", Guthrie Ramsay Jr. argues that Nas "set a benchmark for rappers in an artistic field consumed by constantly shifting notions of 'realness', authenticity, and artistic credibility".
Licence: The Artistic License, Version 2.0; CDB developed the benchmark data set and carried out the analyses described in this work.
Benchmark: Understands the perceived effectiveness of artistic choices found in dramatic performances Theatre Standard 6- Understheds the context in which theatre, film, television, and electronic media are performed today as well as in the past.
"There are no longer roots to sustain forms, no exact cultural base to serve as a benchmark for variations, no nucleus, no boundaries for artistic language", says Bourriaud.
Such cases provide a benchmark for a scientific understanding of how and why artistic cultures may change and develop.
