Thank you, Ilaria!
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Originally Posted by Ilaria Rosselli Del Turco
Alex, she looks like a little woman who could be holding the whole globe rather then a balsa shape, so positive and assertive.
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Definitely true. I am glad this came across.
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Originally Posted by Ilaria Rosselli Del Turco
My feeling is also that you had to hold back your mother/daughter relationship in order to paint her in this more official and formal situation.
In a sense I see more ease in the couple of architects you painted lately. I tried to paint my mother last year, but I found it difficult even to look her straight in the eyes.
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That is so true, also! I think you are right, that I made her more formal than the other architects, and it could be also that I have already painted her in a more "motherly" pose, so I was deliberately contrasting this with the other portrait. There is that dignified persona she presents professionally that is so "her." I did see the Venturis as more relaxed and informal, in a way. Maybe I did have to separate myself from her (as mother/daughter) in order to paint her this way. The expression in the other portrait tugs at me every time I look at it, and I always lean it against the wall in my studio and cover it with another painting. What does that say? Too much emotion? So I empathize with your not being able to look your mother in the eye.