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Well-expressed @onorati66 and some nice use of vocabulary – it was a pleasure to read. (I think you could be right about the school programme being Eurocentric). I completely agree with you – I think he caught the anguish of normal people in a post-war world – universal emotions.
Let’s have a look at some corrections:
> harduous – spelling > arduous ✅
> art’s history – we use this as a compound noun > art history ✅
> Neither have I happened to see his paintings in ANY museum or art exhibition
(You must use present perfect here – do you know why?)
❌ he stayed clinged to the painting as a figurative art
⚠️ Cling is an irregular verb: cling, clang, clung
✅You can either say: he stayed clinging to …. or he clang to ….
He swimmed against the tide? – great expression. But swim is also irregular:
Swim swam swum
Good piece Roberto 👍