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This is interesting Enzie.
Trying to read through and give everyone equal weight, I think everyone has touched on the reasons being...
We might say that the older guys were merely documenting their travels, but I would also think they became enamored by the people they found to be so different, it might have been the color of their costumes or the starkness of the surroundings, whatever grabbed them it was different.
Sharon you love to do dancers, did Degas paint dancers because of his passion for them (yes) did he continue to do it because it became financial lucrative? I am guessing yes.
One can feel the difference as Tom mentioned in the painting of a cowboy and the painting of a cowboy to have painted a cowboy, there is a feeling. But I really think contemporary artist still discover a passion for a subject and put it too financial use, I don't think it lessens the art, when as Tom referenced you can get the feel of the subject.
Does that make sense?
What else could have led this fella from Cincinnati, OH to paint this:
[I]Frank Duveneck, Guard of the Harem, Cincinnati Art Museum
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