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Among National Portrait Gallery, London’s defining principles was the idea that, in considering a work for acquisition, the celebrity of the subject was of greater importance than the artistic merits of the work itself.
Portraiture was formerly an exclusive genre, accessible only to those with wealth or power and thus representing a very narrow sector of society.
Portraits record our outer selves, yet they are intricately connected to our inner lives also, and have long been held to evoke the living presence of their subjects.
In their purest form, portraits are visual studies that capture a physical likeness or delineate what makes the subject identifiable as a specific individual.
Portraiture is one of art’s oldest practices, yet for a genre that is often thought to be limited by convention and tradition, it has always been experimental.
It’s said that emerging artists paint themselves because they can’t afford models, and because it is preferable to perfect one’s technique with a compliant and always available subject.
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