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Originally Posted by Clayton J. Beck III
Often times, I believe, the sitter's emotional response to the artist and the artist's emotional response to the sitter so strongly comes out on the canvas and is so unique to that situation that others may not recognize or see a likeness in the face of the sitter simply because they've never seen the sitter in that situation. I believe this explains much of the poorly received and dissatisfactory results of some portrait sessions. The artist can only paint his point of view and if that point of view does not match the viewer's than the resulting portrait is often deemed a failure. The portrait itself may be mechanically perfect and the result still dissatisfactory.
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I think this is the whole key to the thing, and I could not have said it better. I have had this exp