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Originally Posted by Thomasin Dewhurst
But also post -war feelings have crept in too - a sense of futility, depression, disappointment. Although these have metamorphosized into port-modern ideas of championing the sidelined people, places, ideas.
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That succinctly encapsulates my personal response to a lot of what I've seen in British portraiture. My personal take on what I saw was that there is a cold impersonality, to me the antithesis of the very idea of portraying a living human being as a human being. Harsh reaction? Okay, convince me otherwise.