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Thomas Buechner's portrait of Bill Zinsser.Thomas Buechner
Two Men and a Portrait
One wondered how an artist brings paint to life. The other showed him
- By William Zinsser
- Smithsonian magazine, April 2007
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Was nice being privy to the interesting 2-person journey that went into creating a telling portrait of the artist as much as of the subject.As a portrait artist myself, I'm intrigued by his categorization of portraits as being either about the person or about the moment. For me, drawing a portrait has always been about the play between the two- the person in a moment in time, which he cannot revisit, for not only has the moment passed; he shall not be that same person ever again. Humans, as i see, are ever-changing entities in the sea of life, which itself (as alluded by the metaphor) is as ever-changing - however passive or inert it may seem.
Posted by Namita Kulkarni on November 28,2007 | 08:29 AM