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Originally Posted by This Is Not Here
But the amount of portrait painters on my course is rediculous, and people are wowed by the skill in them, but it fustrates me that no one can see the the painting says ABSOLUTELY nothing about anything. A portrait of someone's uncle just says 'this is my uncle'. In any other media, where the mastery and skill of painting is not there to distract from this, this total lack of conviction, statement or emotion would not be accepted.
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Sometimes I wonder what the artists
really think of the people whose portrait they're painting. I don't know how much soul one can expect to squeeze out of Kate Moss, but it can't be that much, as photogenic as she is.