[C19fan]

Never heard of this so called artist. But he and the writer are both engaged in artistic ******bastion. "Challenged old tropes"...where has this writer been. These "old tropes" have been beaten to a pulp for perhaps 150 years. Us "philistines" will be still admiring a Winterhalter or Ingres long after this "artist" and this writer have been long dead and buried.

[ifinnegan]

“I’ve been thinking a lot about portraiture…”

Liberals are insane.

[humblegunner]

How John Mitchell Shakes Up Portraiture Mitchell

What is Portraiture Mitchell?

I'll bet punctuation is a key to this mystery.

[llevrok]

John Mitchell shakes up portraiture? I bet Martha is behind this

[reformedliberal]

It sort of rings true to me, as an artist. While I haven’t painted for decades, I do enjoy thinking about how to render various surfaces and I will often spend time looking analytically at all sorts of people/things and the works of various artists.

Mitchell is a modern classicist, from the work shown. My major critique is that he renders fabric better than he renders flesh. His flesh isn’t convincing or even handled differently than the fabric, IMO. Also, I expect some poignancy in portraits. His are enigmatic, contained seperately within the canvas.

He’s no Reuben.

[RoosterRedux]

I wouldn’t buy them or hang them in my house, but I like them all. They were all interesting and evoked “something” in me but I’m not sure what at this point.;-)

[noiseman]

What they hate is the fact that white Europeans and their descendants are responsible for most of the cultural advancement in the world, while most of the historic cultures of what they call “People of Difference” (That’s a new one, POD people?) never advanced beyond tribalism and superstition. If they were objective, they might look at that history and conclude that primitive cultures need to abandon their ways and adopt what has worked so well for Western Civilization, but instead they hold up primitive beliefs and practices as some equivalent (or even superior) to actual civilization.

And when some individual “POD” wisely casts off the primitive nonsense and decides to adopt what works, namely Judeo-Christian values and western social and governmental principles, they are excoriated for “acting white.” Well, the indisputable fact is that what they derisively call “acting white” is what is necessary for all people, regardless of skin color or cultural background, to succeed. It has nothing to do with “whiteness” and everything to do with morality, diligence, and common sense.

[Boogieman]

What’s the point of portraiture when our society isn’t really churning out great men and women to memorialize anymore? Who needs a monument to the mediocre?

[jacknhoo]

“people of difference“

😂🤣😅😂

[Bigg Red]

Well said.

[drSteve78]

Thought this was about the singer Joni Mitchell that just lost two members of her family.