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This week, behold Pablo Picasso’s Le Rêve (The Dream).
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Never forget
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I come bearing gifts of flowers and revolution
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Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836 The Hudson River was a group of New York-based...
The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of...
The Symbolist Movement was born in 1886 as a literary movement by Jean...
