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Surprising, isn't it, that much of American portraiture often looks to the past, and to artists who came from the European tradition, while a lot of contemporary European portraiture is far more cutting edge and, some would say, "forward looking".
I personally love the Sargent/Zorn/deLazlo tradition but I don't usually think of American artists as being outpaced by their European peers in the race toward "the next new thing". (I'm probably just being "Amero-centric", though, if such a word exists!)
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