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@Tarnport I'll never forget the story of surrealist movie director Luis Buñuel, who used to work at the Prado in Madrid, giving tours to tourists.

He would skip past the undisputed masterpieces like Las Meninas by Velázquez, and instead heap praise on some unremarkable portrait from some obscure, long forgotten painter. It happened only rarely, he said, that a member of the tour group would approach him afterward to ask for an explanation.