Dollar General fixes the market share for water-paints. 

Bristles stay in cheap color, when dipped in tap water, mark the givings with charcoal hue. 

The concoction adapts to room temperature. 

A misstep qualifies the liquid’s leverage, taunting it to tipping point. 

Accidents will happen.

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Masterpieces contain a wall with triple-figure-income. 

Visual art attributes its value to hindsight. 

So long as the world burns, wooden canvases inherit their wealth.

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Gossip overlaps like brushstrokes. 

Silence reveals Caravaggio’s murder victim in color. 

Passersby discern Modica’s Charging Bull as an elaborate fraud, seeing red ruined Burden’s palms with stigmata instead.

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Religious concepts plagued aesthetic renderings, blanket terms draped an homage to Christ’s suffering,

As conformity attained the individual,

Art mirrored human anguish in lieu of God’s punishment.

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What was beautiful remains an academic study. 

Duchamp’s urinal is still lost to time.