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#1 | Arshile Gorky | Water of the Flowery Mill | 1944 | oil on canvas107 x 124 cm | The Metropolitan Museum of Art: New York, NY

#3 | Mark Rothko | No. 5/No. 22 | 1950 | oil on canvas297 x 272 cm | Museum of Modern Art: New York, NY

#5 | Michelangelo Buonarroti | Delphic Sibyl (ceiling detail) | 1508-12 | fresco350 x 380 cm | Sistine Chapel: Vatican City, Italy

#2 | Henri Matisse | Portrait of Madame Matisse (Green Stripe) | 1905 | oil on canvas40 x 32 cm | Statens Museum for Kunst: Copenhagen, Denmark

#4 | Pablo Picasso | Melancholy Woman | 1902 | oil on canvas100 x 69 cm | Detroit Institute of Arts: Detroit, MI

#6 | Jacques-Louis David | Oath of the Horatii | 1784 | oil on canvas326 cm × 420 cm | Louvre: Paris, France

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COLOR SCHEMESCOOL

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