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The great outdoors A vivid new exhibition charting the emergence of landscape painting shows how natural light became the end as much as the means
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Corot to Monet ????? National Gallery,
London WC2 (020 7747 2885) to September 20
In 1994, Russian artists Aleksandr Melamid and Vitaly Komar went
to the USA to conduct a survey, asking the public to nominate their
favourite genres (still life, portrait, landscape), their favourite
colours and their favourite forms (animals, humans, elements of
nature). They then combined the most popular elements to produce an
image that they decreed was 'America's most wanted' painting: a
landscape, with an inlet of water surrounded by hills, delicate
greenery, a few people (and a ...
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Obituary: Mary Leakey
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