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Tom, thanks for the link: both artists have nice work posted.
I agree that art based on personal observation is by far more convincing and more able to withstand scrutiny over time then some fantasy imagery. I find nothing wrong with nostalgic paintings as long as the artists depicts something that they have personal knowledge of.
Having read many art history books, and especially books about Orientalism, it has come to my attention, how paintings are used by historians to reconstruct an era and it
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