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He was also a part of the *second generation* of Hudson River School artists, who took Thomas Cole's founding principles and ran with them.

Like Frederic Edwin Church. Here's his Twilight in the Wilderness, from 1860:

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Throughout the course of his career, during the 1920s and 1930s, Nash's art became increasingly abstract, surreal, and mystical.

Consider Winter Sea, from 1937:

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There have been numerous attempts around the world to combat the Digital Dark Age, but the sheer volume of data in the world - over 2.5 quintillion bytes are created every day - and rapid rate of technological development make this a difficult task.

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You need to listen to classical music.

Here are 7 reasons why:

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Despite being severely outnumbered, the Ten Thousand held firm.

But Cyrus the Younger attempted to charge his elder brother and was killed in the action.

Still, the Greek mercenaries didn't know. They kept fighting and repelled the Persian army; the battle ended in stalemate.

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In 401 B.C. a huge army of Greek mercenaries set out for the heart of Mesopotamia.

Only half of them would return to Greece, two years later.

This is the epic story of the March of the Ten Thousand...

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And at last we come to The Opening of the Fifth Seal, created not long before the end of El Greco's life.

This painting is from the earliest years of the 17th century.

Astonishing.

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El Greco's late career was littered with sui generis masterpieces of timeless fascination.

Like Laocoön, painted sometime towards the end of El Greco's life in 1614.

This was done three centuries before the eras of Surrealism, Cubism, and Expressionism.

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And soon El Greco started to break free of any existing artistic style.

In The Immaculate Conception (c.1610) you can see his total transition away from Renaissance realism and towards a fully proto-Expressionist style.

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View of Toledo (1600) is rightly one of El Greco's most famous paintings.

Its vibrant colours, intensity, and dramatic atmosphere have much in common with Expressionist landscapes of the early 20th century, over 300 years later.

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