The phrase itself traces all the way back to the Renaissance and the French blue de jean, which was a reference to the blue fabrics imported from Italy.

For example, "As I said in the beginning, we might have a crisis on the horizon." The same goes for, "This relates to what I was saying earlier," or "This ties in with..." Emphasising a point: "The significance of this is..." or "This is important because..." or "We have to remember that..." Making reference to information: "Based on our findings..." or "Our data shows..." or "According to our study..." Explaining visuals: "I'd like to illustrate this point by showing you..." or "This chart shows a breakdown of..." A breakdown is often used in a presentation to show all of the smaller parts of something bigger.

with reference to our pasts, why. We must  never insist proudly or defensively on our  

So, why is there a reference to food in this headline about smoking?

And this is in reference to the chart that we just talked about where it is a big threat to U.S. equity markets.

Realism, and with reference to Socialist Realism, but also a label Richter wasn't too satisfied about. Richter was interested in current affairs, consumer society, new media and popular culture. He incorporated these elements into his painterly practice, depicting for instance televisions, design magazines, advertisements or political figures and events. This was the genesis of Richter's professional oeuvre, and photography was the starting point, something which used to be impossible with his academic background. He combined photography with his characteristic blurred effect, and immediately started to examine the relationship between both media, photography and painting, a true pillar within his artistic practice. The German artist was interested and fascinated by the dialectic relation between the objectivity and the subjectivity when painting photographs. For Richter, the photograph was the most perfect picture. He could eliminate conscious thinking, as the picture does not change, it is absolute, autonomous, unconditional and not linked to any style. With his blurred effect, he made everything equal, equally important and simultaneously equally unimportant. He was strongly drawn to depicting certain subjects from found photographic material. Think of military subjects, family portraits, images from newspapers or magazines. These selected images all have their very own narrative and motive to be painted, most often combining death or suffering, and its exploitation of death and suffering in media. From 1963 until 1964, Richter had his first exhibitions and commercial successes, collaborating with several galleries, and also collectors were starting to get really interested in his work and career. A landmark year for Gerhard Richter was 1966, for many reasons. The first, the birth of his daughter, Betty, whom he iconically painted in 1988. He also painted his wife

its situation in reference to himself, that the unseen eyes were looking at him keenly.

If we have a copy of the object or a clone, and that object, uh, makes some reference to another one, the garbage collector won't delete them, right?

Benny Blanco once tweeted, last night I met my idols in reference to meeting you and Blackpink.

It's very much a reference to antique painting styles, and therefore the story he's presenting is also a reference to one of China's great culture heroes.