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Peter,
I don't know what "question begging" means and have no idea what the question: ("who is being primitive?") asks.
Otherwise I think I agree. The discussion has been more focused on Freud and Picasso but there are many other categories of art that should not be critcized because they fail to meet the standards of conventional portraiture. My failure, I guess, has been my attempt to say that we, as artists, should be more inclusive. I would not have participated in this thread except to answer the suggestion that the above artists (among others I would guess) are incompetent, mean spirited, and will otherwise reside in a portrait artist hades sniffing toxic solvents and forever cut off from north light.
As Micheal Killelman said in the New York Times recently fidelity in art is about integrity and that were he an artist he might also do anything to narrow the unbridgable gulf between greatness and he. Unfortunately there are no shortcuts to genius. Lets get back to work.
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