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Art of Surf Exhibition

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When I first learnt about the Impressionists I found that they had to rent a space to hold their first exhibition and received terrible criticisms: EMILE CARDON, LA PRESSE, "The exhibition of the Revoltes", April 29, 1874 "There thus remain MM. Degas, Cezanne, Monet, Sisley, Pissarro, Mlle Berthe Morisot etc. etc., the disciples of M. Manet, the pioneers of the painting of the future, the most convinced and authoritative representatives of the  School of Impressionism . This school does away with two things: line, without which it is impossible to reproduce any form, animate or inanimate, and colour, which gives the form the appearance of reality. Dirty three-quarters of a canvas with black and white, rub the rest with yellow, dot it with red and blue blobs at random, and you will have an  impression  of spring before which the initiates will swoon in ecstasy. Smear a panel with grey, plonk some black and yellow lines across it, and the enlightened few, th

Journeys of Christ (playlist)

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