It's an odd link, but this painting goes
right back to an early
painting: Jean Harlow (was
it Dorothy Parker who said that Harlow
was spelt with a silent 't'?) in it's design approach. I have always
liked
the idea of the isolation of rich detail against a flat background. As
the
eye focusses on the details, the brain fills in that which is not shown
much better than if everthing is laboriously depicted.
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