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Which might lead some to despair that art isn't what it used to be.

But maybe we're looking in the wrong place. Painting is only *one* form of art, after all, and there are many others which continue to flourish, achieving both popular appeal and artistic greatness...

The Great Wave off Kanagawa comes from a series called Thirty Six View of Mount Fuji, created in 1831 by the master Katsushika Hokusai.

It is but one of thousands of beautiful different designs produced by the prolific Hokusai.

Here are four more from that 1831 series.

And so for the 1954 World Cup, to banish the memories of the Maracanazo, the "unpatriotic" all-white was replaced.

A 19 year old called Aldyr Schlee won a competition to design the new kit, basing it on the colours of the national flag - yellow, green, blue, and white.

This Madonna and Child, painted by Peter Paul Rubens in 1621, was commissioned to be part of the funerary monument of Anne Antheunis and her recently deceased husband - featuring portraits of them both offering thanks to Mary.

16. Stormtroopers Advance Under a Gas Attack by Otto Dix (1924)

In an age devastated by war like no other, Otto Dix's terrifying visions of the First World War seem to capture the horrors of the 20th century as a whole, with its mechanised, technological, all-destroying wars.

15. Napoleon Crossing the Alps by Jacques-Louis David (1801)

A portrait which speaks to the Enlightenment and to the French Revolution, to the ideals of rationality and universal rights, and to the conflicts which would accompany their progress around the world.

And this is something that, it seems, AI cannot (yet, at least...) replicate.

It is in this grey area of subjectivity - of deciding precisely what the art should look like & when it is finished - where the strange creative process behind any work of art reveals itself.

9. The languages of the world

But it was for his satirical portraits in which he constructed human faces from objects that Arcimboldo became popular.

They were almost certainly made as a form of frivolous entertainment for the Imperial Court.

You can imagine the laughter and intrigue when this was revealed:

Mediterranean Port at Night by Claude Joseph Vernet (1771)