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Old 11-10-2010, 11:13 AM   #1
Sara Lasso Lopez Sara Lasso Lopez is offline
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Tao of painting people




James Gurney has written a post with that title (http://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/20...ng-people.html) that says:

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Old 11-11-2010, 10:35 AM   #2
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Nice quote!
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Old 11-11-2010, 06:33 PM   #3
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I second that! Some of the best portraits are not so much a good likeness, as they are a good presence.
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Old 11-16-2010, 08:08 AM   #4
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Old 11-16-2010, 01:00 PM   #5
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Andrew Wyeth frequently eliminated the images of the actual people and represented them via objects from their daily life. That's taking an "inward reality" to an interesting level!
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