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Originally Posted by Marina Dieul
Garth,
Yes you're right, the baby is real, but you're wrong, it's not a little guy ! It's my second daughter, who was 18 months at that time ( It will be her second birthday tomorrow : she doesn't no more consider herself like a baby !)
I would not have been able to create that from imagination, maybe in some years ( 20, 30 ?)
Even if it's a portrait of my daughter, I wanted the painting to be a sort of idealization of a baby, it could be any baby.
Thanks for the comment.
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Dear Marina,
My foot is in my mouth; I was going by the ordinary conventions of relative hair length, which means nothing at a baby's age! Oops! She is lovely, real, and cute!
Congratulations to you for such an adorable, inspiring daughter! You are right that she could represent any baby in this painting's context, as an ideal. I'll echo Cindy that this is a hugely successful painting, and hope this inspires more to come.
Garth