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For all those wondering why your art teachers or the really great art schools make you take/paint/draw realism, it is because... if you delve into it with acceptance and focus, try your hardest and master it (realism), you come out on the other side with an understanding an appreciation for the microcosms realism forces you into. Once you understand that realism is really just a bunch of micro abstract paintings, you leave realism and go at everything with a completely different attitude.
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From Pillars of Glass by *RSF24
