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| Michael Wishart Arab Courtyard, Fez 1971 oil on canvas New Art Gallery, Walsall, West Midlands |
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| Charles Meurer Trompe-l'oeil Still Life 1904 oil on canvas Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio |
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| Spencer Gore Rule Britannia 1910 oil on canvas Tate Britain |
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| James Ensor Fireworks 1887 oil on canvas Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York |
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| Brendan Neiland Brighton 1993 acrylic on canvas University of Brighton Gallery |
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| Bryan Pearce Art School Interior 1959 oil on board Royal Cornwall Museum, Truro |
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| Patrick Procktor Figures by the Sea II 1962 oil on canvas Burton Gallery, University of Leeds |
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| Jackson Pollock Untitled ca. 1942-44 oil paint, watercolor and ink on paper Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh |
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| Maurice Denis Paradise 1912 oil on panel Musée d'Orsay, Paris |
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| Ludwig von Hofmann Tanzende in weiter Landschaft ca. 1918-24 oil on canvas private collection |
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| Max Klinger Tritons and Naiads ca. 1884-85 oil on panel Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin |
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| Antonio Salvetti Summer on the Elsa River 1894 oil on canvas Museo San Pietro, Colle di Val d'Elsa |
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| John Collier Mother-of-Pearl 1932 oil on canvas The Hepworth, Wakefield, Yorkshire |
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| George Sheringham Midsummer Madness (stage design) 1924 oil on panel Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| Louis Reckelbus The Fountain of the Little Faun 1934 tempera on paper, mounted on panel The Wilson, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire |
"Woe, I must exclaim, over an age that practices art merely as a frivolous plaything of the senses."
– Wilhelm Wackenroder, writing in 1796, quoted by E.H. Gombrich in The Preference for the Primitive: Episodes in the History of Western Taste and Art (London: Phaidon, 2002)