Please drop a line if you're another fan (I'm the only one I know). I'd love to discuss his work and even portraiture in general with someone.
2007-03-23 21:53:32 · 2 answers · asked by Eleen C 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Visual Arts ➔ Painting
Yes I have to admit I do !!! As a portrait painter myself I can admire them and understand the obvious joy they gave the the person who commissioned them . I am not exactly sure when the change came but who would truthfully want their darling child , wife or mother represented by Bacon or Freud ? These days the artist pleases himself and all the art critics adore this attitude before the artist pleased his client and this change is really , in the history of things very recent. I do hate I am sorry to say the phrase 'things have moved on ' Yes and stopped and are soooo boring Duchamp 1916 dirty beds 200? .
Sargent represented the aristocracy which also not fashionable .......I put on a accent when i applied for Chelsea and only got in on the strength of that I think
2007-03-23 23:21:28 · answer #1 · answered by shetland 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah, he's great but I don't want to talk about him. Art has gone way beyond him. Much has already been written...I don't think I could add anything more.
2007-03-24 05:01:07 · answer #2 · answered by Victor 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋