After a long time, the painting was ready.

过了很长一段时间，画准备好了。

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Much of that time, for some of them, is spent taking photographs not even of the painting but of themselves with the painting in the background.

对他们中的一些人来说，他们大部分时间甚至都不是用来给画作拍照，而是以画作为背景给自己拍照。

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The more time one spends before a painting, the more valuable one finds it.

一个人在一幅画前欣赏的时间越长，他就越能发现画的价值。

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Many first time visitors recognize it because artists have been painting the beauty of Taos Pueblo for years.

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Rembrandt did have one time where he started painting kind of Catholic themes, but basically he's like these other guys.

伦勃朗也曾画一些天主教题材的作品,但基本上他和当时的其他画家一样

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Or a painting may strike you in a completely different way that you didn't even see in the first time.

或者一幅画以完全不同的方式给你留下另一种印象，而这个你第一次看的时候甚至没有发现。

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Since retiring, Pajaud spends a lot of time painting.

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They perceived this academic sterility to have descended from the followers of Raphael, and aimed to revive what they felt was a simpler, more direct, more honest style of painting before his time.

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Favorites are a recently acquired set of 17th-century Dutch silvered, painted and varnished leather wall hangings, shown with Pieter de Hooch's painting "Leisure Time in an Elegant Setting" (c. 1663-65) in which similar coverings appear.

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