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Originally Posted by Marvin Mattelson
Oh garth ye know me too well. I saw the exhibit when it first opened. Stuart was a real wheeler dealer who lived a checkered existence. The vast majority of his portraits were quite formulaic. Same pose, same lighting, same color, same bat channel.
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Thanks Marvin for your candid insightful review. Now I really want to see this show. Good luck in Atlanta! Someday I'll have to scrape up an offering and attend one of your gospel tent revival meetings. In the mean time as a pilgrim I'll try to worshipfully learn more at the Met as I can pay the tolls and $35.00 parking.
Michelle: One thing that I am noticing about museum sites more lately is that the quality of their downloadable images is improving by leaps and bounds with the advent of high end digital captures. With the Met site in particular, they have an enlargement feature showing a detail of one-quarter of each painting at a time. What I have found is that by enlarging and downloading each four corners of the desired image, and reassembling the quadrants in Photoshop, a yield of a whole enlarged painting is created to file and keep for reference. It's a lot of work and certainly against the Met's intentions, but well worth it. That's my Secret of the Day!
Thanks,
Garth