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The Art of Beloto
The King of Poland loved Beloto's paintings because they showed a full range of society, not just the elite. The communists also liked his paintings because they were of the city before the heyday of capitalism. A group of architects and students did painstaking work during the war creating blueprints for Warsaw reconstruction. In reality, so his sort of flights of fancy were materialized in the way that the building looked after the war.
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