When we paint a face, we have to be aware of its
characteristics. The permanent traits or the structure of the head. The
changing features which depend on emotions. We emit different expressions in
accordance with what we feel. The essence, or the essential. The personality, a
sense of constancy which rules over a change of appearance. The personality is
the tone, the way of speaking, the appearance, vivacity, tension, elasticity. T
he aura.
Since we perceive all these characteristics and
constant expressions at the same time, when I paint a portrait, I exaggerate
it, distort and simplify it, sometimes reducing and suppressing, at other times
leaving the painting deliberately incomplete because if you try to obtain a
convincing physiognomy, the more you add, the more you lose the essence.
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