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Originally Posted by Julie Deane
As Sharon Knettell put it in another post on this forum:
"I want this site to become a resource for those with a penchant to create transformative art that cannot be denied. We cannot do that if we are complacent and dismiss the criticisms, however distasteful of someone like Blake Gopnik."
Can a portrait fulfill the duty of pleasing the client and also be art?
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Jeez, am I pompous or WHAT!
Boy that is a hard one. Sargent gave it up at 50 and had to be coaxed to do any portraiture after that.
I love portraiture, I know many think I disdain it. What I hate is the feeling of being a bug under a clients thumb, when the rent is due. Give me a lady in a ballgown any day and I am in heaven.
You start out with great visions of the great thing you are about to do, then WHAM! The client comes in with his portrait already painted in his head and just wants to pay you to execute it. OR, they don't like anything you have to offer and point to another's painting for inspiration.
Here is an example of what I think is art that was hated by the client.