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Mari, what can one say.
The sensitivity of this piece takes my breath away.
It has inspired me to just draw.
You have endowed this face with inner feeling as well as drawing it beautifully.
There is so much trash out there I admire artists like you and Bill who are willing to sacrifice and not compromise to add real treasures to human civilization. It is sometimes a difficult and thankless task.
I hope this is not a digression, but I just came back from a trip around New England. One stop I made was at the Sterling Clark Museum in Williamstown Mass.
They have some of the most exquisite paintings like Tissots, Monets, Degas. I could have just LIVED there.
One painting stunned me with it's unparalleled beauty. It was a Bouguereau., "Nymphes et Satrye". This was a surprise as I am not a real fan of his work. To me this painting was the result of a consummate artist who never took shortcuts. He could not have painted this picture if he did. Anyone that does figurative work should make a pilgrimage see this painting in person. The outrageous DRAUGHMANSHIP! The figures going in and out of the dappled light! The buttery rendering of the skin in all its delicate permutations of color. You felt like they would continue out of the canvas and spill their joyful play onto the floor of the museum.
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