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The real artist is striving to depict his subject’s character and to stress the caricature, but at least it is art which is alive.
I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the subject grow to look like his portrait.
A good portrait ought to tell something of the subject’s past and suggest something of his future.
Clothes should not be allowed to take over the portrait.
Clothes should not be allowed to take over the portrait. Read More »
Self-portraiture is a singular in-turned art. Something eerie lurks in its fingering of the edge between seer and seen.
If my people look as if they’re in a dreadful fix, it’s because I can’t get them out of a technical dilemma.
I loathe my own face, and I’ve done self-portraits because I’ve had nobody else to do.
I loathe my own face, and I’ve done self-portraits because I’ve had nobody else to do. Read More »
Artists with the lack of proper education and experience of working from life will copy whatever is visible on the photograph, without knowing what’s underneath. As a result, instead of creating the in-depth and full of character portrait, they draw a mask with no soul.
Get yourself a mirror and paint your own portrait, over and over. It’s a great chance to experiment, you’ll discover things about yourself, and you don’t have to pay the model!
With all the difficulties involved in painting, you still have to find a subject’s thoughts and intellectual world.
