Martin's world, a world of crusty foregrounds, of cities constructed on clean lines and bright blue distances, was a world for ever under threat.
Here, Duncanson recalls the landscapes of Claude through compositional layering: he paints a dark foreground with a large tree to the side, a brighter middle distance with a body of water and classical architecture on a hill behind it, and a background of blue mountains.
Erin Bright covered the distance in 4 00 4/5 on the fast track to record his second victory in nine starts this year.
This was a large, though not unprecedented, distance (bright clusters of galaxies had been identified at similar distances), but 3C 273 is about 100 times more luminous than the brightest individual galaxies in those clusters, and nothing so bright had been seen so far away.
This isn't the first time that Curiosity's camera caught something very bright in the distance at the Red Planet.
As the music crescendos, their cars speed out of their pasts, racing toward their futures as the song ultimately fades into the unknown, bright, major-key distance.
Bright has since distanced herself from the group's name, claiming it has been "hijacked" by aggrieved parents.
They reflect the character of this summer: like Lizzie Grubman, they don't like being told where to park; like Michael Bloomberg, they glow brighter from a distance; like Derek Jeter, they glow fitfully when we hoped they'd burn strong.
The combination of all these factors affects how people see the landscape (bright, clear desert distances; soft, mysterious, changeable foggy landscapes), what they expect from design (shade from the sun, protection from the wind, shelter from rain and snow), and how gardens and landscapes are designed.
