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35. Wheatfield with Cypress by Vincent van Gogh
The wheat, the tree, the hills, even the earth and the sky, the very air itself - they all seem like living things, and are teeming around us.
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22. Crucifixion by Eugène Delacroix
Pictorial depictions of the crucifixion weren’t very common by the 19th century, but it was a theme Delacroix was drawn to repeatedly, and his versions were, as one might expect, very much products of Romanticism.
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14. The Scale Of Love by Jean-Antoine Watteau
There was a time when I used to think of Watteau merely as lightweight, trivial, decorative fluff. It took me some time to realise charm is more than merely lightweight and trivial.
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2. “Bathers” by Paul Cézanne. This huge painting seems to me like a puzzle awaiting a solution: the setting is outdoors, and those abstract nudes seem as solid & monumental as rocks or boulders. The forms & vibrant colours are compelling - but what does it all mean? Who knows..