[ReNae Stueve]

Peggy,

I like the paradigm of your life as a portrait artist. I do feel though, that "icon art" as I call it, is strictly modern, masculine, violent, today, and as I suspect, what Cynthia was referring to was the all too common, feminine trying to suceed by emulating masculine.

I see by Marvin's response, that my point was missed. I KNOW that as artists, we all, see art as art, regardless of the gender of the creator. However, there is a difference between masculine and feminine presentation in representational art. The big show stoppers are more often than not, 90% more, images of war, the west, warships, warriors, patriarchal religious enactment , yadda yadda yadda.

I believe that the old saying, you are what you eat, goes for our society as well, we are what we idealize. And I would like to support all form of media that represent the nurturant ideal.