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People are for the most part uneducated in the classical arts. And even most artists today cannot create any realism because they were not classically trained. Picazzo was classically trained, but made an educated departure. Most people see it, and skip the training and think that they can go directly to the abstract.
An alumni of U of O art department said to me, "You portrait artists are such 'tight ass' realists. If I wanted to learn tio draw, I would just take a class!" He knows little about how difficult it is to master the art of drawing classically, or he would never have made that statement. He was just spouting the populer views of his professors, who do not know how to draw themselves!
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