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The Rain Painting - The Most Soviet Thing Ever
This is part of a genre and maybe it's like the iconic work in a genre which treats industrial post-industrial landscapes. And landscape with ruin in it is all like called the rain painting, big hunk of abandoned aqueduct. I suppose it starts in the kind of late 18th century with people starting to paint mills as kind of fiery, spattered places in gothic romantic landscapes. But there are also all sorts of other ones. This is kind of, this is like sort of fantasy landscape in places. In places it's a kind of pastoral. There is some boats, yeah, which is kind of,. which is by far the nicest like place. And we
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