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Allan, what an interesting Paxton you posted - observe all those undulating, wavelike flowing lines. This also strikes me: if you turned her arms over, she would be cradling her arms as you would rock a baby. Paxton's women are always so ladylike and soothing, whereas Sargent's women usually have some dangerous edge somewhere,
Alex, what an interesting discussion about backgrounds! I've always felt that Sargent used a very subtle form of cartoonist's movement lines to show life in his subjects; depicting light radiation is another version of this.
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