Their solution was to yield most of the canvas or panel to the gray, fog-and cloud-filled sky (curator Emilie Gordenker, director of the Mauritshuis, calls them "our Dutch mountains"), with blue openings torn into the gray here and there so that spots of sunlight could illuminate parts of the land or water below.

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Likewise, past busy Benaulim and Cavelossim, you will encounter undisturbed golden sand that stretches south to the mouth of the River Sal at Mobor, where itinerant fisherfolk haul in their wares and the Blue Whale beach shack graces one of the most picture-perfect spots in all of Goa.

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