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You haven't listed Russia!!! I'd like to visit the Tretyakov Gallery in (I think) St Petersburg/Leningrad - a friend of mine did, and brought back a book (which sadly he later reclaimed) full of marvellous paintings by, eg, Ivan Repin. Russia tended to be isolated from the world following the revolution, and much art was hidden from the west though preserved in museums - great paintings of the Russian steppes, winter in the countryside, isolated families (ie, isolated from Moscow); paintings which caused huge misunderstanding, because it was assumed the revolution had unleashed creativity, which, on the whole, it didn't: artistic creativity had preceded revolution, and was not the result of it; and the quality of pre-revolutionary art was much greater than that which succeeded it. So much drivelling rubbish has been written by those who failed to understand this - and the story is there, in Russia. So that's where I'd like to go.
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It may not be quite answering the question but wouldn't it be nice to paint in a country where there is no history of art, no museums, no galleries, no other practising artists. In other words a country where there are no preconceived ideas, no prejudices, no elitism and where any art can be judged entirely on its own merit. Think I'm living in a dream world - and I bet I'd soon run out of art supplies! .
