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Brine Shine
Study of waves, wave-crests and foam by the Armenian artist Ivan Aivazovsky (1817-1900)
Aivazovsky was a citizen of Imperial Russia whose name is Հովհաննես Այվազյան in Armenian and Иван Айвазовский in Russian.
Glow with the Flow
Water Mill (1892) by the Norwegian impressionist Frits Thaulow (1847-1906)
Thaulow painted this almost identical “Bak møllene, Montreuil-sur-Mer” (1892):
Christusgleicher Kunstkönig
Albrecht Dürer, Selbstbildnis (1500)
Post-Performative Post-Scriptum
Christusgleicher Kunstkönig is German for “Christ-like Art-King”, because Dürer represented himself in a way traditionally reserved for images of Christ.
