Going against the grain

Jake thinks he can start a new genre in painting.

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Jake: I call it realism.

Pete: Realism?

Jake: Yeah. Painting what I see. Make it look like it looks like. Seeing it as it seems.

Pete: That’s new?

Jake: After all the impressionism, expressionism, cubism and all, think of it as a renaissance.

Pete: You go backwards and you call it progress? That's a shortcut to becoming unfamous.

Jake: Sometimes you have to go back to go forward.

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