What are you looking at?
June 2012
143 posts
“I would wish my portraits to be of the people, not like them. Not having a look of the sitter, being them. As far as I am concerned, the paint is the person.”
—Lucian Freud, 2011
"This model, Emma, lived on a narrowboat and one day just sailed away. End of story."
Jack Purvis, Model in the studio, date unknown
“A painting needs a wall to object to
An image needs edges to relate to
And content needs a grave to go to.” —Marlene Dumas, 2008
An image needs edges to relate to
And content needs a grave to go to.” —Marlene Dumas, 2008
