"Soul of the Sitter"
"Was it not a futurist painter who, exhibiting a triangle in a fit, described it as the soul of a wqrnau?" asks an English writer.-' "Some years..ago another artist, Mr. Augustus John,'entertained his town : with' a sensational show of feminine portraits. We were never quite sure whether they were the souls of women or not. Now the distinguished Spanish painter, Senor Bel-tran-Masscs, who boasts that he uuacrstands women absolutely, says that he studies the soul of the sitter. "Wo suspect that the courtly Latin is merely being complimentary. Who knows what the soul is? But it sounds very mysterious, and women love mysteries. The secret of material success in portrait painting is flattery. But no artist should . admit it. Personality, youth, elegance,, even immodesty, if made attractive, are. essentials which the painter must handle with skill. Souls —we know nothing about them."
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 137, 6 December 1930, Page 19
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146"Soul of the Sitter" Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 137, 6 December 1930, Page 19
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