A landscape by Arkhip Kuinji. I could spend quite a few weeks studying Russian painters, there are so many incredible ones. But I've already been told "are you just gonna draw trees?"

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"if you meet korean who does not know these works, he is a spy from north"
Monkey by Owon.

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Cockatoo and pomegranate in the night by Ohara Koson. It's like a co-crow.

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The pigeon week went too fast, allow me to make a second one. This is an eagle by Au Ho Nien, one of the great masters of Lignan School.

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Today pigeon is adorable and proud little falcon (and sun) by Hokusai.

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Today pigeon is another deadly predator, the kingfisher!
It is by Zhao Shao'ang, and I still can't find words to say how much I love his work.

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Came accross this painting, "Christmas Eve" by George Inness. A lone figure on an icy landcape, coldly isolated by the moonlight. A reminder that Christmas will be hard for some.

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Ivan Shishkin's rye fields. They really take on a new life in
It seems safe to say the original muted tones were a limitation of the medium, while the painting screamed for decently saturated colors!

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Doctors told him that his OCD would make any serious career impossible.
Hokusai proved them wrong by achieving great success through his Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji. This is no. 33.

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Despite being a prolific writer, ZhuangZi is mostly known as an entomologist, for his work on butterflies.
(based on Michael Hofmann's painting).

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The enigmatic and seemingly ever-changing expression of da Vinci's Mona Lisa remains an intense subject of investigations of art historians to this day.

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