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"An Oak tree" by Michael Craig-Martin

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"The Little Pastry Chef" by Chaïm Soutine

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"The Sistine Chapel Ceiling" by Michelangelo

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"Sculpture Park (Tony Smith)" by Erin Shirreff

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London Art Studies Catherine Opie Self Portrait Cutting

"Self-Portrait/Cutting" by Catherine Opie

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Trigger Warning - Contains depictions of self-harm which some viewers may find distressing. Viewer discretion advised.

Scratched into Opie’s back is a childlike drawing. Ben Street examines the way in which the artist uses a traditional format to speak of a subject that is anything but.

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02:56

"An Oak tree" by Michael Craig-Martin

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"Fray Hortensio Félix Paravicino" by El Greco

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"The School of Athens" by Raphael

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"Whistler's Mother" by James Abbott McNeill Whistler

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"Madonna del Parto" by Piero della Francesca

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"Whistlejacket" by George Stubbs

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"An Allegory with Venus and Cupid" by Agnolo Bronzino

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"The Triumph of David" by Nicolas Poussin

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"The Passing Winter" by Yayoi Kusama

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"Queen Henrietta Maria with Sir Jeffrey Hudson" by Anthony van Dyck

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"Ecstasy of Saint Teresa" by Gian Lorenzo Bernini

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"Dead II" by Gerhard Richter

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"The Kiss" by Auguste Rodin

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"Metamorphosis of Narcissus" by Salvador Dalí

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London Art Studies Gustav Klimt The Kiss

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