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Episode 1: "Aragosta's the name, guiding is my game! Come now, line up! You there! Line up by height, short everypets in the front! Move! Move! We have to have order here! When I call your name, respond 'Aye'! Hold it! HOLD IT! My pencil lead has broken, I must sharpen it to a point before we can move on."
"I will be expecting you to be on your best tour group behaviour while here at the Musee!"
"ARE YOU CHEWING GUM IN HERE?!"

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Episode 2: Aragosta dutifully recites his usual glowing description, "In Photo Fun we have a delightful collage of some of the lighter moments in the life of Badger Bivens, renowned wildpet photographer."
Xander recalled meeting this famous photographer awhile back. Charming fellow, if a bit eccentric...

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Episode 3: All Hallow's Eve can give one the shivers! Clear and crisply painted, this gem slowly fades into murky blackness, begging the viewer to wonder what is in the shadows, if that is standing in the light?

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Episode 4: Aragosta pumps out his chest, turning to Xander and the group, as he presents "Blue Waves", an amazing composition by a relatively unknown PnF artist. Surely Blue Waves will become a future masterpiece, and rival "Blue Poles" $350 million price tag, because squiggles are much more complex to draw than straight lines, are they not?

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Episode 5: Aragosta proudly presents one of the Musee's rare inverse silhouette pieces by a very talented PnF artist. Xander and the tour group are all suitably impressed, and hope they will see some more art by this amazing artist!

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Episode 6: Lunar New Year Dress
From the Pauli Hoh collection
Get out that little red dress for the Lunar New Year festivities! The colour red is vitally important to Chinese culture, representing fire and energy, vitality, good luck and prosperity. This dress, with its narrow waist and bell shaped skirt, in vivid shades of red embellished with bamboo leaves is the perfect fit for this time! The Festival traditionally begins on the first day of the first lunar month in the Chinese calendar and for the next fortnight visits are made to family and to friends. The visitor will come bearing a small gift to the household, most often citrus fruit, which is said to bring wealth and good fortune. Guests are welcomed with tea and sweet treats served on a round or octagonal tray, symbolising togetherness. Usually the sweets are arranged in amounts divisible by eight as this is a lucky number. The first day of Lunar New Year represents new beginnings with renewed hopes for prosperity and happiness. There is excitement outside provided by Lion and Dragon dances performed in the streets.

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Episode 7: Full Moon, Full Heart is supremely fitting, from what is arguably the most romantic place on earth, and Madame Cannelle could not resist adding it to her collection!

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Episode 8: "Love and romance are common themes, but Paper Lanterns in Moonlight is anything but common" Aragosta declares dramatically.
Xander can't help wondering, who is that lobster winking at?

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Episode 9: "About Time is a lighthearted take on a serious subject," Aragosta explains, as several students in the tour group step in for a closer look. Their teacher usually asks about abstract art, and they don't want to miss a thing!

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Episode 10: Rosie’s Follow Your Dream is a whimsical landscape that cleverly uses light to draw viewers into the image, until they can virtually feel the slippery rocks and icy water under their paws, and then feel compelled to move towards the deeper blue water in the distance… Xander feels sure that their hooman will be very pleased with Xander for bringing home such a delightful print of this famous PnF landscape!

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Episode 11: Aragosta draws the attention of Xander and the group to one of his favourite oil paintings, by an up and coming young PnF artist. Xander stands back, head tilted, gazing at the painting in a close approximation of how Xander thinks a genuine art critic might look at a painting. But Aragosta suddenly stops talking to scribble down some notes, realising just how easily this masterpiece might be replicated with a few dabs of paint! Oh noes Aragosta! I think that you will find out, as you progress through this Quest, that there are already plenty of good forgers in PnF Town, so please don't give up your day job as a tour guide!

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Episode 12: Star Shower is one of Aragosta's favourite works of art in the Musee! Star Shower was created by one of PnF's finest purveyors of tiny art, so it is hardly surprising that Xander and the whole tour group are mesmerised by the level of detail and the sense of whimsy this piece evokes!

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Episode 13: When Aragosta presents another work of art to Xander's tour group, everypet is amused when Xander's tummy rumbles at the sight of the cookies in the art! Aragosta uses this incident to illustrate the power art has to move pets and to illicit physical and emotional reactions.

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Episode 14: "This piece is long thought to be a representation of good vs. evil, and scholars have long debated the veracity of the claim," said Aragosta.

Personally, said Xander, I think it looks a lot like a delicious drink by the fire under the full moon.

Aragosta scowled and grunted................

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Episode 15: Xander does a little happy dance upon being given a print of Dana’s Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious! This is a remarkable example of classical black and white ink-and-wash painting! The scene has so much depth perception, that viewers often report feeling as if they are about to lift off when they gaze into it!

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Episode 16: Aragosta proudly presents The Baptism to Xander and the tour group. Everything about this image strikes Xander as calm and serene, from the use of colour in the flowers to the gentle pull of the current lapping at the riverbank.

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Episode 17: The Grape Escape is a whimsical fantasy piece, perhaps influenced by the artist's French heritage. Color and motion offer a lighthearted look at effervescence and the abundant life contained within.

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Episode 18: "Trio has been much debated by contemporary art critics," explains Aragosta, "do these creatures represent pets unknown to us? Do those blank stares see past our facades, and into our very souls?"
Xander doesn't know about facades, but they do look quite cuddly...

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Episode 19: Xander does a little happy dance upon being given a print of Dana’s Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious! This is a remarkable example of classical black and white ink-and-wash painting! The scene has so much depth perception, that viewers often report feeling as if they are about to lift off when they gaze into it!

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Episode 20: "The simple title Melodies seems quite suitable to this piece, making one wish to join in to the music the lovely young woman is hearing, yet the counterpoint of the cat reminds us that we must all march to the tune of a different drummer," Aragosta dramatically exclaimed.
Xander appreciated the enlightening descriptions, but sometimes it is nice to just look and enjoy...

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Episode 21: Aragosta directs the attention of Xander's tour group toward the next masterpiece awaiting their appreciation. Xander takes one look and blinks, because Xander is seeing an awful lot of yellow, which is pretty bright and sunny...but...all of that yellow is making Xander feel somewhat jaundiced! So Xander makes an instant decision to sign up for the Dry September movement, and join a gym, for the sake of Xander's liver and for Xander's overall health and well-being! Xander is pretty certain that most of the hares in this art are thinking the same thing, because they seem to be heading in the same direction...?

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Episode 22: "The simple title Sunflowers in a Vase seems quite suitable to this piece," Aragosta dramatically exclaims.
Xander appreciates the enlightening descriptions, but sometimes it is nice to just look and enjoy...

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Episode 23: So Aragosta is in full tour guide mode. He asks Xander and the group what they see here. One pet sees flowers first. Another sees a cross. Another sees a grave. Another sees "hope for the future" in the rainbow around a memorial. Xander asks Aragosta what this really is? Aragosta replies that this is art, so it is whatever it makes you see, think or feel. Thanks a lot, thinks Xander, none the wiser! Mostly what Xander sees, thinks and feels is pink, which would be perfect, if Xander even liked pink?

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Episode 24: Aragosta explains to Xander and the tour group that this piece of pop art, created by one of PnF's up and coming artists, depicts American hard rock band Guns n Roses. Xander and some of the other little pets level blank stares at Aragosta, while several others begin humming their favorite Guns n Roses song.
"Art and music are both in the eye of the beholder," Xander thinks, before moving on to the next piece...

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Episode 25: After viewing all of the inspiring works in this section of Musee d’Art de Cannelle, Xander is feeling a little sad to have to return to a gourd house that looks exactly the same as every other gourd house in PnF Land, which is not terribly exciting...because if you've seen one gourd house, you've seen them all!

But suddenly Xander stumbles upon an abandoned shack, which looks very similar to one in a Chagall masterpiece....
"A present for me?" asks Xander, hardly daring to hope!