Present Joys

I accept and respect all schools of painting which have as their basis the sincere study of nature, the search for the true and the beautiful. As for the mystics, the impressionists, the pointillists, etc., I don’t see the way they see. That is my only reason for not liking them.

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Francisco Goya: Still-Life with Three Salmon Steaks
1808-12
Oil on canvas, 45 x 62 cm
Oskar Reinhart Collection, Winterthur

GOYA.

Hans Holbein the Younger, The Body of the Dead Christ in the Tomb (detail), c. 1520-22

As previously mentioned, this is one of my favorite things ever.