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Suits/Exec's
Attached is the suit painting I referenced earlier in this thread. It's by Thomas S. Buechner and I can't imagine doing a better job of it. I will keep it as a humbling and inspiring example of what can be done with a suit.
I also must defend executive portraits. Having made a design career within 3 major corporations as Designer, Manager, Design Director and 9 years as Vice President of Color and Design I would say it a mistake to to think them any less open to possibilities then the doting mother or grandmother or any other portrait subjects you might face in this profession. In every case it's neccessary to define the end goal and sell the client.
You might be surprised how much the guy at the top has in his bag of skills. It's common also to assume that engineers and research are not creative but all artist are. Not true.
And I guess "money dictates" in the sense that if you make something and nobody is moved to buy it. But that seems to apply to all products.
I hope, Micheal, that you can pursue your ideals and live a long successful life in doing so but can't help noting that the painter Lucian Freud who has already achieved fame, fortune, and world wide recognition, painted Queen Elizabeth's portrait in what we must assume, (until we learn differently), was up to his ideals and check out what our fellow artist (the bar raisers?) had to say in Cafe Guerbois.
Drat! As Karin would say. The attachment didn't attach here but can be found below in my next post.
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