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Portraiture as possible exploitation. Hmmmm... interesting idea.
In the movie "Girl with a Pearl Earring" the client who theoretically commissioned the portrait was certainly doing it as exploitation, but then he had already attacked her physically and wanted the portrait as a way of posessing her when he couldn't have her in reality.
Is it exploitation if I paint a portrait of a handsome male dancer (which I'm doing now)? Is it exploitation if other women admire his muscular form in the painting? Is it exploitation if he dances on the stage and women admire him then?
A fuzzy line....
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