He experienced at first hand and for weeks on end "the jagged and fierce landscapes, brilliant light and savage colors" that Delacroix had experienced just 100 years earlier.
Two standouts: the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (www.ucca.org.cn) features massive installations and intense retrospectives, and Galerie Paris-Beijing (parisbeijingphotogallery.com) has a generous supply of photographs featuring China's fierce creative landscape.
When Hewlett-Packard, the world's largest computer maker, acquired Palm, the struggling maker of the Pre and Pixi smartphones, in late April, it was a much-needed lifeline for a company that was battling to stay afloat in a increasingly fierce mobile landscape.
We're constantly faced with new technologies, changing demographic trends and patterns, and a fierce competitive landscape bearing down on us.
Even though Happer, a physicist, has published exactly one paper that discusses climate change, he is apparently the top choice of the GOP to discuss "the ability to present data and information that can guide global warming solutions in a sometimes fierce political landscape".
But such battles can be particularly trenchant in Vermont, with its tourism-dependent economy and fierce protection of its landscape.
Enormous sandhills created by the venomous search for diamonds surround the town, and the fierce heat means the landscape is stripped down to the most basic elements of sea, sand and scrub.
The interest lies primarily in this young writer's fierce appropriation of a theatrical landscape that she can identifiably call her own.
Fierce winds whipped through the prairie landscape, creating shifting snow drifts and momentary whiteouts.
We reveal the production of a highly uneven landscape and waterscape through fierce political and power struggles.
