On May 11, 2008, at 11:12 PM, aesthete aesthete wrote:
- Should a painting be unsaleable because it represented an ugly
woman, the
ugly woman would become a pretty young girl.
Yeah, well ... that's about a forger's strategy.
Here's an intersting take on painting "ugly" models:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7343999.stm
"...Ms [Sue] Tilley has modelled for Lucian Freud on several
occasions. She recalled a time overhearing a critique of her in
another Freud painting.
"The man was so mortified. It was the Whitechapel Gallery. There'd
been a big exhibition on and my painting had just been finished, so
they put it in for the last week.
"So I went with my friends to see it, and there was this man - you
know those so-called art lecturers who think they know everything -
'yes, this painting was painted because Lucian hated women, so he put
the dog high up and the woman was lying on the floor. The poor thing
with all her scabs and spots'.
"I started laughing. He was going 'excuse me madam' and I said, 'well
actually that's me'.
"Poor man, he thought was going to fall through a hole in the floor.
"He said: 'oh but you're really pretty in real life.'"
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Michael Brady
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