Debra Morgan / Jennifer Carpenter Portrait - Page 4

On January 06 2013 05:51 ajxPurpleRain wrote:
Good technique again, but why this person? And what is that expression on her face? The pencil detail and the nuances like your subject's hair seem to be your main focus and I suppose that's fair, but I just can't relate to what you're trying to do. It's not like art needs explicitly to be about promoting some non-art agenda, but I think it is inherently meaningless as a pursuit if the challenge in the work is only to be a photocopier, an impressive rendering tool and nothing more. As with the Steve Jobs picture which was an exact reproduction of that same fascist image we saw on his official biography (and I mean fascist in a real technical aesthetic sense--not that he was a nazi or something, but that those wise eyes staring into the future reproduced millions of times is the artistic currency of fascism), you are taking from a source rich in implication and simply reinscribing all the same stuff on to it without comment, without a voice, without soul. I challenge you to make your own images, glider. gl hf