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Beach at Apia, Samoa by Louis Eilshemius, 1905
Apparently he really did sail out to the South Pacific and came back with a stack of scenes like this one. They say almost nobody took him seriously for decades — until Marcel Duchamp, of all people, started calling him a genius, which only half stuck.
Erisava: This looks like a postcard. Is that all it needs to be?
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Luxe, Calme et Volupté by Henri Matisse, 1904
The title comes from a line in a Baudelaire poem, apparently — luxury, calm, pleasure. He'd spent a summer down on the Mediterranean coast with a painter who worked entirely in separate little dots, and it looks like he tried the method on for size here before heading off somewhere else with it.
Erisava: Everything here is dots and pastel. What stops it being wallpaper?