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Old 11-07-2002, 03:20 PM   #11
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Thanks for playing Beth. I don't think anybody should feel foolish. One of my unstated hypotheses is that the task is essentially impossible. I agree with Margaret that an accomplished artist could work in such a way that the method/sources are opaque to the viewer. My suspicion is that even a rookie can fool the experts most of the time if we stick to what's in the paintings themselves.

I certainly had no idea which of Linda's works were done from life based only on looking at them. I consider her to be an accomplished artist. I got lucky and guessed one right, but only because it was a self-portrait and I thought to myself: "No problem getting the subject to pose in that case." From what was in the self-portrait itself I was clueless!
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