Truth is I don't really like beer, and I rarely watch sports on TV until the end of the season. As I've watch it recently I see that the advertisers are convinced that the viewers are a collection of males who have two things in common -- they drink a lot of beer, and they are romantically challenged. I wonder if one doesn't have a lot to do with the other.
Regarding Daniel Greene -- I find that his portrayal of the subjects he paints far less glamorized than most. He instead seems to embrace the obvious humanity of the individual, instead of trying to create a false facade. In the case of Robert Beverly Hale -- the eyes cast down, looking as a man might who's lived a long life. The craggy hands painted not in suggestion, or hidden behind the coat, but up front in detail.
And to the right, the geometric guidelines suggesting some of the elements of draftsmanship. Yet, not eliminated at the end, but left as part of the composition.
I also see this exposed humanity in the portrait of Mr. Steinberg.
What is possible, what is appropriate, is limited only by the imagination and our own intestinal fortitude.
Having said all that -- When I was in the home building business there was among builders an unspoken competition to create the "new" look, that "cutting edge" design which would stand you apart. Having watched this transpire over the years it brought into focus the principal that there is a very fine line between dynamic "leading edge" design, and just plain goofy.