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an Adolf Hengeler 1904 painting

    
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a René Magritte painting

       

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little 1888 gooseberries for a tart,  acidic,  tangy,  sour pie . . .

wash it down with unsweetened lemonade
      
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a 1943 Busby Berkeley film set for Carmen Miranda's performance

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the dancers look tired in this photograph

        

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there are many varieties of plums,  all of them lewd and suggestive ... these are from 1854

      
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an 1886 illustration of mulberries . . . rude prurient filth!
      
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exposed fruit should stay in the marriage bedroom,  and not be vulgarly paraded in decent public ... Willem Kalf knew that when he painted this in 1659 so let's continue,  and disregard all of the vulgar sexual aspects of fruit . . .

       
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oh my 

      
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chemicals on a pineapple ... who would make love with you now,  tart root?
a Hans Schleger poster,  1960       see full size
      
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an Agnes Miller Parker illustration, 1940s?
      
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1961 'Funny Face' powdered drink mix for children

 
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1903 ornamental berries from France       see full size
      
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a Vincent van Gogh still life painting       see full size
      
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a 1922 "Vanilla bush laden with fruit" ... the paper sheets were for the photograph
      
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a Charles Harper illustration
      
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an old advertisement for printing inks

          

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a Giovanni Battista Ferrari illustration ... this is how limes used to look,
and here's a modern lime fruit redesigned . . .  

    

      
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a Willi Exler illustration,  1960       see full size

      
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 a Bernie Fuchs illustration

    
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"The Young Bacchus"   Franz von Stuck,  1909?       see full size

    
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German Ornament,  1886?

    

UNDERWATER scenes in art

       
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disputedly,  the first ever underwater photographer was Louis-Bhutan 

at the 1893 Columbian Exposition in Chicago       see full size

       
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a 1938 glass bottom boat   "Viewing the Submarine Gardens"

       
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a Mort Kunstler illustration       see full size

       
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a Rockwell Kent illustration

       
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a Dorothy P. Lathrop children's book illustration 

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a Line Vautrin box,  1955       see full size

       
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from a 1906 children's book illustration ... in that era

bare breasts were not an issue       see full size

      
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a Heinrich Kley drawing   "Love's Labor Lost"
   
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"Sadko in the Underwater Kingdom"
 1876 Art by Ilja Jefimowitsch Repin 

From Wikipedia:  Sadko (Russian: Садко) is a character of
Russian medieval epic Bylina.  He was an adventurer,
merchant and gusli musician from Novgorodrom.

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a Jay Ward television animation layout of a submarine       see full size
       
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1960s aqua-dancers perform aqua-theatre for empty 
seats in the aqua-quarium       see full size
       
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a 1960s kids show on television,  "Diver Dan"
had fish marionettes behind a tank of real fish
... it looked interesting,  but it was boring
for kids       see full size
       
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Dr. Seuss  "Secrets of the Deep Vol.2"
       
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a 1922 room screen
       
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Maurits Cornelis Escher
       
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scraping and inspecting the hull in 1880       see full size
       
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a Walter King Stone illustration
       
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a Virgil Finlay illustration
       
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one thing's certain about the 1960s ... even the ocean floor had style
       
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a television animation submarine,  this time from UPA       see full size
       
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a Paul Woodroffe illustration,  1908

    
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a Colin See Paynton illustration       see full size

      
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a 1966 illustration       see full size

        
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a Barnett Freedman illustration,  1943       see full size

        
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a George Cruikshank cartoon       see full size

          
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a Russ Heath comic book,  1960s

               
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a Linley Sambourn illustration       see full size

       
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Wallace Wood

        

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okay let's take a good close look and . . . yes!  It's THE END

... a Victor Beals illustration,  1934

      

 see Underwater 2

   

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