All sorts of portrayals of important people.
I liked seeing the gradual and slight changes in picture composition in the later portraits. The Tudor gallery showed almost everyone in the same pose, and I found out that there was actually a 'pattern' that the artists used. They would trace the pattern of the body, the standard, for the sitter since people usually did not sit for the portraits. The clothes were beautifully detailed, but there was a flat quality to them. Lisa Perrin, my friend and a New Paltz student who graduated with a BFA in painting and drawing, was interested in these types of portraits--the way they flattered and distinguished whoever the subject was.
There was also a photography exhibition titled 'An Englishman in New York,' which showed British people living and working in New York City. They consider it as their home, but some of them would like to return to the English countryside. I think I was more interested in reading all their descriptions than the actual photographs. I've fallen quite in love with living in London, maybe overly enchanted with the idea of living here in the future, so I was curious about their opinions of New York. From what I've seen of London, it is cleaner, more user-friendly, and the people are happier.
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