King Lear. William Shakespeare.
Needless to say that King Lear is perhaps the most powerful tragedy ever written. While drawing I was deliberating which King Lear I connect to the most- his madness, his sorrow or his profound sadness and disappointment in his children and perhaps the entire human race? The most I felt is his penetrating despair and the inevitability of the end. As some people say, each portrait artist draws is in a way a self image. I let you be the judge of that.
Needless to say that King Lear is perhaps the most powerful tragedy ever written. While drawing I was deliberating which King Lear I connect to the most- his madness, his sorrow or his profound sadness and disappointment in his children and perhaps the entire human race? The most I felt is his penetrating despair and the inevitability of the end. As some people say, each portrait artist draws is in a way a self image. I let you be the judge of that.
