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Thanks Ilaria! I find work at all of these websites truly inspiring. I don't quite understand the historical reasons for this difference between the US and UK professional portrait scenes.
I'm also very interested in the teaching of observational drawing. I teach in various venues, lately mostly to children. Again, doing internet research, I've found some of the most interesting work regarding the teaching of observational drawing is from the UK.
Is obsevational work is perhaps more valued and more integrated into the contemporary art world in the UK than in the US?
Maybe others on this forum will disagree, but it seems to me that the contemporary art world, as exemplified in NYC and LA, is very split off from the portrait world here, and that working from observation, in general, is less recognized as an aesthetically or intellectually significant activity within the mainstream art world.
Any thoughts?
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