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I am rather undecided.
I do appreciate her personal departure from the strictures if not to say straight-jacket of classical realism, however I do find her images ugly.
I think Van Gogh was much more successful at it. Some of his portraiture was quite beautiful, but his florals are where he really is transcendent.
Klimt is another example of an artist who threw off the same deadening yoke and acheived figurative works of exceeding beauty and inventiveness.
Simply skill or technique in my opinion, is a crashing bore. The museums of the world are filled to the rafters with acres of these. With the advent of photography it is no longer necessary to paint many pictures which are best left to film.
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