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optom3:
--- Quote from: Penthesilea on March 02, 2008, 04:18:29 pm ---Here's the link to Fantauzzo's site:
http://www.vincentfantauzzo.com/index.htm
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Hi,
thanks for that.That is one seriously dark set of paintings.My goodness even the "innocence of youth" in the baby picture is tortured. If I was that babies mom I would be very concerned,if as is often said an artist captures what is going on inside someones mind!!!!!
Glad I am not the only one who dislikes the Heath portrait.
Think I will give his work a miss.I have enogh trouble with nightmares as it is.I only need to watch the news and see what is happening in the world to witness disturbing images.
Still maybe I am just a phillistine with regard to this artists work.
I find myself wondering what his friends and family feel about it.I certainly would not like it as the last formal portrait of some one I had deeply loved.It would torture me.
MaineWriter:
The first time I saw the portrait, I really disliked it. In the weeks since, it has sort of grown on me. I wouldn't want it hanging on the wall of my living room, but I do think it captures something of Heath's essence.
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LauraGigs:
--- Quote from: optom3 ---I find myself wondering what his friends and family feel about it.
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Optom, if you look at the news quote in Louise's entry a few posts back, it says: " . . . the Melbourne artist had second thoughts about entering after Ledger’s sudden death, and changed his mind only after talking with the actor’s family and friends."
So I would assume that they were at least okay enough with the work to encourage the artist to enter it for the Archibald Prize.
I'm with you though; I wouldn't want that to become my principal visual memory of Heath. (The two figures whispering to the center one are artistic flights of fancy and don't bother me so much. But the physical portrayal shows so clearly how exhausted and gaunt he was toward the end.)
Fran:
I'm having trouble with the prominent clavicle bones. Heath looks too thin in the painting.
OK. I'm going to say it: I don't think it looks like him at all
Katie77:
I dont like it either..
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