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Van Gogh thought a painting was "in the raw" without one. John Bratby thought they impaired the "artist's pristine visual conception". Howard Hodgkin paints on his. John Wilson explores the history of the picture frame and the complicated relationship with the art it surrounds. How might the Mona Lisa look, for example, encased by aluminium? Producer Mohit Bakaya

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