The Cooperative Work Process | How to Prepare for a Sitting | What Can Be Done with a Portrait In My Studio | Gallery | Calendar | About Anton Kumankov | Guestbook
Return to Main Page THE COOPERATIVE WORK PROCESS (From an interview by Professor Nikita Pokrovsky with the artist Anton Kumankov) II
Return to Previous Page      he process of creating a portrait is long and complex, but, by the same token, very exciting. It is, if you will, a game. It is a mutual expectation, both for the artist and for the model.        portrait brings together the interior worlds of the model and the artist. It cannot be otherwise. Otherwise, you won't have a good result. Besides that, the art of portraiture has been around for more than two thousand years. And that has its own seductiveness. Commissioning one's portrait today, you literally enter into that enormous painting gallery that has been created by history.      s a result (and you can count on this), you will see in a portrait some unexpected nuances of your own personality, you will discover in it things you never suspected, but that were found and expressed by the artist. This is the best-case scenario. It is for this, I believe, that one commissions a portrait. Therefore, if you wanted to achieve in your portrait the look of a "little painting", like a better version of a photograph, embellishing your external attributes (or, as many mistakenly think, "the artist can depict anything"), then, probably, there's no reason to approach a serious artist.	Y. Belousova
Continue
Copyright © 2004 Anton Kumankov