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Heath Ledger - News Accounts
LauraGigs:
"I'm very aware of my spending, but I'm not very aware of my income. There are certain times when I speak to my accountant, or something will pop up, and I'll be like, 'Oh', but it's not really a frontrunner in my head. I know that it definitely helps with, for example, if I'm really in a place where I need someone, some of my family, they can come."
Damn.
Regrets like these are useless, I know. But if Heath . . . if he'd asked someone . . . a sibling were staying with him for a while . . . or a cousin or somebody . . .
sigh.
Marge_Innavera:
--- Quote from: Penthesilea on March 02, 2008, 03:20:50 pm ---But to put things in perspective, all other portraits I've seen of the same artist have this dark, disturbing quality to them. I'll look for the link and post it here.
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I would like it somewhat better if the artist had conveyed Heath's shadow side in terms of how he looked in life. The image seems to have advanced him to a late middle age that, unfortunately, no one in this life will see. The picture that Fran LauraGigs posted shows a man of Heath's age with a dark side; the portrait shows a man with skin texture, especially under the eyes, that suggests someone much older.
(reference corrected by Marge_Innavera)
Fran:
--- Quote from: Marge_Innavera on March 05, 2008, 09:25:11 am ---I would like it somewhat better if the artist had conveyed Heath's shadow side in terms of how he looked in life. The image seems to have advanced him to a late middle age that, unfortunately, no one in this life will see. The picture that Fran posted shows a man of Heath's age with a dark side; the portrait shows a man with skin texture, especially under the eyes, that suggests someone much older.
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Marge, LauraGigs gets credit for posting the photo.
I have to agree with you about the age progression. Maybe that's the part I wasn't getting when I couldn't see the portrait's resemblance to Heath.
TOoP/Bruce:
In an "I'm not there" kind of way, the portrait captures one aspect of Heath. It is dark and dramatic. The heavy use chiaroscuro and tenebrism recall the work of Caravaggio (but in contemporary dress -- or is it contemporary undress?), and that play of dark and light is the defining feature of all the portraits by this painter featured in his web gallery.
Clearly Heath was attracted to this painter's work. He appreciated the artist's work enough to sit for him. Whether or not it bears a likeness to us is less important than the fact that Heath clearly must have seen something of himself in this picture.
oilgun:
I just reads a few of the preceding posts and maybe it's just me but I don't see any age progression at all in the Heath figures and I find the likeness amazingly accurate, almost photorealist.
Anyway the painting is now one of the finalists and we'll find out on Friday if it gets honoured with the Archibald Prize
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