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Có nhiều điểm xem mà từ đó một bức chân dung có thể được rút ra-I244 có nghĩa là, tinh thần quan điểm. Và, như trong một cuốn tiểu sử, giá trị của công việc sẽ phụ thuộc vào cái nhìn sâu sắc và khác biệt của tác giả, nghệ sĩ. Thu đổi ngoại tệ của một người đàn ông tuyệt vời có thể viết một cuốn tiểu sử của ông chủ của mình có thể được khá đúng với quan điểm của mình, nhưng, giả sử ông là một người hầu trung bình, nó sẽ không là một công. | The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Practice Science Of Drawing by Harold Speed. Plate LI. SIR CHARLES DILKE BART. From the drawing in the collection of Sir Robert Essex M.P. in red conté chalk rubbed the high lights being picked out with rubber. There are many points of view from which a portrait can be drawn PfWean mental points of view. And as in a biography the value of the work will depend on the insight and distinction of the author or artist. The valet of a great man might write a biography of his master that could be quite true to his point of view but assuming him to be an average valet it would not be a great work. I believe the gardener of Darwin when asked how his master was said Not at all well. You see he moons about all day. I ve seen him staring at a flower for five or ten minutes at a time. Now if he had some work to do he would be much better. A really great biography cannot be written except by a man who can comprehend his subject and take a wide view of his position among men sorting what is trivial from what is essential what is common to all men from what is particular to the subject of his work. And it is very much the same in portraiture. It is only the painter who possesses the intuitive faculty for seizing on the significant things in the form expression of his subject of disentangling what is trivial from what is important and who can convey this forcibly to the beholder on his canvas more forcibly than a casual sight of the real person could do it is only this painter who can hope to paint a really fine portrait. It is true the honest and sincere expression of any painter will be of some interest just as the biography written by Darwin s gardener might be but there is a vast difference between this point of view and that of the man who thoroughly comprehends his subject. Not that it is necessary for the artist to grasp the mind of his sitter although that is no disadvantage. But this is not his point of view his business is with the .