If you could commission your own portrait from any artist living or dead

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who would you choose and why..any media you like sculpture, conceptual, photographic, video, painting

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well, my saggy belly looks like something out of a lucian freud painting atm, so prob him.

Would obviously like a Mario Testino portrait or similar, but not sure what stylist could glam me up sufficiently for that.

ha! great minds, obviously, pruni

Undressed

i think he does a lot of long sittings doesn't he?

yes, I'd prob have to send ds to nursery while I was in his studio...

ooh good question
Holbein

cool HC! What props would you have in the painting to symbolise your life and work?

David Hockney.

I love his pictures.

I have in my mind's eye a fabulousy richly coloured frock and an enormous ruff
exquisitely dressed dd at my feet
some scales of justice dangling from my elegant fingers
some shees of music fluttering in the breeze
and, of course, an absolutely charming harpsichord

Vermeer. His paintings are so beautiful. Yet the subjects look real.

Ideally I'd actually own a Vermeer so I could just sit and look at it as long as I liked.

nbg are yo diving into a pool?

Harpsichord, you've thought about this before, haven't you?

I love pop art so it would be a hard choice between Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein.

my dh is a portrait painter and a member of the royal society of portrait painters, so i'd have to say him or it might be a divorce!

Hmmm, possibly next to one with an umberella!

Leonardo

caravaggio.....just sublime....

something ethereal looking by whistler maybe.
great question!

I'd like to be painted by Botticelli, rising barefoot from a gently rippling sea of freshly laundered nappies.

wearing a couple of strategically placed clam shells and a thread of wispy sea weed?
you exhibitionist....

Modigliani

Hah! I was thinking more along the lines of something gauzy and draping, as worn by in Venus and Mars, actually.

Chagall, I really love his stuff on a very emotional level.

Rodin