achieving some sort of beauty which can be commonly recognized as beautiful, and I think it is because of the immediacy of film — you get instant results — and also perhaps because I have been practicing with that particular medium for more than twenty years.
Jesse Waugh
Starry Night Cracker — Hamadryas laodamia
2014
Oil on canvas
Case Study of Another Artist in Practice
For the past ten months, I have been sitting for a well-known portrait artist — Allan Ramsay — as he paints my portrait.[24][25] I have been very impressed with his ability to recreate what he sees — whilst adding gracious proportion and colour to his completed works. He exhibits a strong and capable aesthetic. We have discussed the topic of aesthetics and beauty, particularly in their relation to 'contemporary' conceptual art. He believes that before we are able to intellectually rationalize our perception of art, we have already assessed it based on intuition or feeling, and that this is an inex-
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