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I went to the Frick museum in Manhattan, and they carry tons of art at the height of the naturalist period. It’s just tons and tons of portraits that took a crazy amount of skill. But I was bored through most of it, because nothing expressed any idea.

That’s when I started thinking about how to best formulate my idea on realism, which is basically: The only point of drawing/painting something to look real is to better express an idea since ideas are real. That’s why I actually like http://www.cordair.com/picart/icarus.php more than http://www.cordair.com/larsen/icarusstudy.php

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