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Artist's Daughter with HairOils on canvas
10 x 8"
1985
I love girls' hair in their faces.
This shows almost all hair, lovely hair. But it doesn't disguise the expression on her face. She did not like to pose.
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Amazing! I'm just looking at the dates - early 2008 when you uploaded this here I was in a bit of a no-man's land in life unfortunately, and in 1985 I was minus 4 years old! beautiful in a way because this painting hasn't altered one bit (if you haven't altered it since) through the years, the births, the deaths, the troubles, the reliefs, war, peace - like the Mona Lisa, and I think all good art, just has an unchanging stillness through decades and decades, centuries and centuries - waiting to be seen by the viewer/read by the reader...
love the hair, expression - I literally always have messy hair. Very well done, Robert!
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Thank you very much, Iain. You've selected one of my own personal favorites to comment on.
No, I haven't changed this painting at all over the years. It hangs on the wall of our little living room, "an unchanging stillness" (thank you for this beautiful description of an ideal) with us and for us.
BTW, the model's name is, and was then, Heather Ayn Tracy. Was married at age 23, divorced (thankfully) four years ago. She'll be 40 in November and finally accepts it when people guess her age between 23 and 30. She's ageless, like the many paintings I've made with her as the model. I hope her father had something to do with that by saying things like "that old lady there has kept her youth because she's led a moral life." Her basic code is honesty.
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hmm, the mathematical worker in my head has calculated that she must've been about 13 at the time of the painting? I think that just by looking at somebody you're able to get some major hints of what they're all about, and even better in a painting because the painter has compounded his own feelings into it...and even better! because in this case, the painter is the father! yes, I detect real genuineness, honesty, in her face. 40 years old is not old!
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You have a good idea of what it's like on seeing a person for the first time. And on how the artist conveys that.
For a philosophical analysis of these ideas I offer quotes from Ayn Rand from her book "The Romantic Manifesto":
As to the role of emotions in art and the subconscious mechanism that serves as the integrating factor both in artistic creation and in manβs response to art, they involve a psychological phenomenon which we call a sense of life. A sense of life is a pre-conceptual equivalent of metaphysics, an emotional, subconsciously integrated appraisal of man and of existence.β
The sense of life of another person strikes one as an immediate, yet undefinable, impressionβon very short acquaintanceβan impression which often feels like certainty, yet is exasperatingly elusive, if one attempts to verify it.
It is the artistβs sense of life that controls and integrates his work, directing the innumerable choices he has to make, from the choice of subject to the subtlest details of style. It is the viewerβs or readerβs sense of life that responds to a work of art by a complex, yet automatic reaction of acceptance and approval, or rejection and condemnation.
The emotion involved in art is not an emotion in the ordinary meaning of the term. It is experienced more as a βsenseβ or a βfeel,β but it has two characteristics pertaining to emotions: it is automatically immediate and it has an intense, profoundly personal (yet undefined) value-meaning to the individual experiencing it. The value involved is life, and the words naming the emotion are: βThis is what life means to me."
What an art work expresses, fundamentally, under all of its lesser aspects is: βThis is life as I see it.β The essential meaning of a viewerβs or readerβs response, under all of its lesser elements, is: βThis is (or is not) life as I see it.β
There are two aspects of manβs existence which are the special province and expression of his sense of life: love and art.
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thank you for these - I found them very interesting! they definitely struck a chord in me! especially: 'There are two aspects of manβs existence which are the special province and expression of his sense of life: love and art.'
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I LOVE HER HAIR FALLING ALMOST DEFIANTLY DOWN HER CHEEKS AND HER FACE PEEKING OUT FROM UNDER IT ACCIDENTALLY. I THINK HER HEAD DOWN AND THE FALLING HAIR IS HER WAY OF ATTEMPTING TO SHUT THE WORLD OUT - HER SECRET HIDING PLACE. YOU HAVE CAPTURED THE EMOTIONS OF THE MOMENT IN A REAL WAY...I CAN ALMOST FEEL THE PAIN. ONLY SOMEONE WHO KNOWS DEEP PAIN COULD REPRODUCE IN SUCH A LIFE-LIKE WAY. THANKS FOR SHARING YOUR HEART. LOL, T
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Its nice to see someone else who loves girls hair in their faces. Its a very common comment of mine on photos around here. Theres something almost inherently feminine about it.
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Absolutely feminine. Can you stand your hair in your face? Girls just go on in the world and don't even seem to know their lovely hair is all over the place.
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Ive had long hair several different times in my life and I got used to being all over the place at times. But there were certainly times that I just had to put it back. I guess it depended on what I was doing. We can get used to anything if we're subjected to it enough. I used to hang insulation and eventually got used to itching everywhere, almost all the time.
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Same here.
After the Marines I wanted to grow my hair and did so down to my shoulders. Yet it was annoying to me.
Funny, in high school I was first to let my hair grow after falling in love with the Beatles. In one literature class a girl told the teacher, a nun, that I could look like Paul McCartney in a simple step by shaking my combed hair. The teacher was curious and the class wanted to see it so I did it. After that I had, from one girl who I met at our 40th class reunion, it be known that there were 6 girls who were in love with me. Huh! Why didn't anyone tell me? I would not have been a playboy (I had a girl who has been my wife now for a long time) but it would have been nice to know.
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That's very good to know.. knowing I'm right and more important, knowin that I'm gonna see more of ur lovely artwork.
Kindest Regards
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I feel that you have more talent than u are using.. I believe u can do more ..much more.
Agree?
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Ihab,
I agree. It's just a time in my life where I'm searching for new subjects.
Thank you.
Robert
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A wonderfully sensitive portrait. Once again, you excel in capturing the quiet moment
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Thank you Danny.
I love this thing. Just bought it back from the original buyer. I'd forgotten I'd even done it.
Robert
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Thanks Rinx
I'm a poet and don't know it: "Thanks Rinx".
Robert
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I thank you very much for that,
Robert
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She looks just like my niece, and I swear I am completely in love with it.
I don't know what to tell you, but I just keep coming back to this, and every time I love it even more.
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Thank you. I suspect that it's the girlish hair. What is it about females that they can have their hair in their face, wind-blown in their eyes and even in their mouth when speaking and they just go on with their moments? It would drive me nuts. Therefore I think it's a characteristic exclusive to the feminine sex.
Robert
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Must be. Those feminine wiles.. You know what it is, too? She makes me think a lot of my niece who will be 9 this year. I mean the expression, the hair everything is dead on. I absolutely love it.
Lovely ladies.
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I like your portraits. This one especially has such interesting mood to it. Pleasant work.
jml
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Excellent work Robert.. I love how you draw girl's hair in all your paintings so fluffy and shiny
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Thank you Sahar.
There's something only the females have that makes me love to paint their hair.
Robert
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Thank you very much.
Robert
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Amazing work..hairs stand out quite effectively and brilliantly rendered out..God bless ya..Cheers
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Thanks so much Hasan.
Robert
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stunning work!! great capture of mood in this
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fechap,
Thank you very much.
Today, at age 35, her hair is a passion. Don't let the wind blow. Her husband is with me. Let the wind make your hair a "mess". It's natural and beautiful.
Robert
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Yup, love the strokes and the colouring here, you even managed to put some eyelashes
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Yup, love the strokes and the colouring here, you even managed to put some eyelashes
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Happy you noticed the eyelashes. Yup, it's the only other feature you see of her expression besides her mouth.
Thank you,
Robert
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