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Art is a word has migrated to Flickr. Bigger, better, sharper. And you can download the original high res images. And not a Klee-devouring bot in sight.

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I’ve just had a couple of Cezannes, a Derain (who would have thought!) and a Picasso flagged as “adult content”. I’m guessing there’s more. The Picasso (Boy Leading a Horse, 1905–1906, Museum of Modern Art, New York) was, apparently, considered to constitute a particularly serious violation of the community guidelines – the decision could not be appealed.

Two words: Fuck this.

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Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (1796–1875) Chalk Cliffs near Yport 1872

Oil on canvas 43 x 59.3 cm

Mesdag Collection, The Hague

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Georges Michel (1763–1843) Three Windmills c. 1814-1843

Oil on canvas 50.3 x 69.4 cm

Mesdag Collection, The Hague

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Jacob van Ruisdael (c. 1629–1682) View of Haarlem with Bleaching Grounds c. 1670-1675

Oil on canvas 55.5 x 62 cm

Mauritshuis, The Hague

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Jacob van Ruisdael (c. 1629–1682) Wheat Fields c. 1670

Oil on canvas 100 x 130.2 cm

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

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Paul Klee (1879–1940) “Or The Mocked Mocker” 1930

Oil on canvas 43.2 x 52.4 cm

Museum of Modern Art, New York

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Paul Klee (1879–1940) Actor's Mask 1924

Oil on canvas mounted on board 36.7 x 33.8 cm

Museum of Modern Art, New York

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Paul Klee (1879–1940) Fright of a Girl 1922

Watercolour, India ink and oil transfer drawing on paper, with India ink on paper mount Sheet: 29.7 x 22 cm Mount: 32.7 x 23 cm

Guggenheim Museum, New York

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Paul Klee (1879–1940) The Beginnings of a Smile 1921

Oil transfer drawing and watercolour on paper, spot-glued onto cardboard 62 x 25.2 cm

Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf

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Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775–1851) Rockets and Blue Lights (Close at Hand) to Warn Steamboats of Shoal Water 1840

Oil on canvas 92.1 x 122.2 cm

Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts

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Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775–1851) Snow Storm – Steam-Boat off a Harbour's Mouth exhibited 1842

Oil on canvas 91.4 x 121.9 cm

Tate Britain, London

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Eugène Isabey (1803–1886) A Storm off the Normandy Coast probably 1850s

Oil on paper, laid down on canvas 33 x 50.8 cm

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

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August Strindberg (1849–1912) Storm in the Skerries (The Flying Dutchman) 1892

Oil on cardboard 62 x 98 cm

Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen

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Hannah Höch (1889–1978) Flight 1931

Cut-and-pasted printed paper on paper 23 x 18.4 cm

Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen, Stuttgart

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Hannah Höch (1889–1978) Indian Dancer: From an Ethnographic Museum 1930

Cut-and-pasted printed paper and metallic foil on paper 25.7 x 22.4 cm

Museum of Modern Art, New York

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Gustav Klutsis (1895–1938) Postcard for the All Union Spartakiada Sporting Event 1928

Offset lithograph 14.1 x 10.5 cm

Museum of Modern Art, New York