José Lerma's Patron Portraits Come To MCA Chicago (PHOTOS) Back in the golden age of civic portraiture, a powerful painting didn't just capture a subject's likeness, but communicated status, power and wealth. Instead of aiming for the truest resemblance, artists created idealized versions heavy on the theatrics.
July 2, 2013 - The Huffington Post
Robert Kennedy in WACH Eulogizing his older brother, Sen. Edward Kennedy said, "My brother need not be idealized, or enlarged in death beyond what he was in life; to be remembered simply as a good and decent man, who saw wrong and tried to right it, saw suffering and...
Daniel Edwards in USA Today I admire her. This is an idealized figure,Edwards said Tuesday in a phone interview from his home, which is near his studio in Moosup, Conn. "Everyone is coming at me with anger and venom, but I depicted her as she has depicted herself -...
Meryl Streep in San Francisco Chronicle I was doing an idealized version of her and my mother,says Streep, seated at a conference table with Tucci. "My mother had a similar joie de vivre. I wanted to be more like my mother. This is my homage to her."