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Aldo,
With all respect -- because I admire your work, and have recently said so elsewhere to others before you joined us -- this Forum isn't much into labeling any portrait artists' work as dishonest or absurd. If you work your way through the SOG galleries from the home page of this site, I daresay you won't find a single dishonest or absurd work. It's instead representative of the best work of the highest practitioners of the art.
My assumption in response to your query is that the nature of the challenged presentations is what was desired and approved by the clients. There are worse things that a portrait artist can do than provide a finished piece, however influenced by the artist's personality and tastes, that fulfills the client's expectations.
It would be helpful to discussion -- which should be pursued elsewhere, perhaps in the Cafe section -- if you would mention instead the things that you look for, work for, and expect in a portrait, all of which I'm sure would be provocative subject matter.
Welcome, in any event, to the Forum community, in which many extraordinarily talented and very savvy portrait professionals reside, read, and participate. One of the "absurdities" in our modern, small world is that you may well run into some of them someday.
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