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"Ah, but for all that is modern art, without Fauvism you have no Van Gogh," Hernando smiled - pronouncing the name correctly, "He is the modern artist many students are most familiar with thanks to the internet and the popularity of Starry Night. He and Edvard Munch are two artists whom can be drawn upon to engage a class that might otherwise feel no way to relate to art at all, when Matisse and his movement may have been previously unknown to them. Once the connection is made and the class is more engaged, they're more receptive to learning about art through the ages to see where they can make other such connections. A working knowledge of art is seen, improperly, as a bastion of a higher class, though art appreciation is available to everyone if they can be enticed to take an interest."

And then he laughed and shook his head, casting Duke a mildly rueful look, "And now you can never again say you haven't been to an art lecture before. My apologies. You can take the professor out of the classroom but never the reverse."