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For someone who missed formal art education, this PDF provides a structured self-guided tour. You can start at page 1 (cave) and page through to the end (contemporary), watching how perspective was invented, forgotten, and reinvented; how paint left the tube to drip onto the floor; and how the frame was eventually broken entirely.

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