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82 — Otto Wagner — 4/5 — Secession

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The Importance of Wall Painting in the Secession

The idea of using the whole facade of a large building as a single canvas flat canvas for a single graphic image is very unusual. One of climped's tricks is to take allegories and like established allegories and symbols and then paint them in a realist way so you'll have i don't know it's kind of symbols from greek painting whatever they have or sort of group like sort of greek or classical art  or um i'm trying to remember an example now.

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