Henrik
Bering:
"While living in Paris
in 1895, the Swedish author and playwright August Strindberg asked his friend
Edvard Munch to create a portrait of him. Presented with the resulting
lithograph, Strindberg was not entirely satisfied: Munch had misspelled his
name "Stindberg"—stind is Swedish for "stout" and
carries a suggestion of pompousness—and had placed a naked woman along the
border, which somewhat detracted from the seriousness of the image. At their
next encounter, without saying a word, Strindberg placed a revolver on the
table. Munch got the message: In the new version, he corrected the spelling and
removed the lady."
Henri Cartier-Bresson:
“The most difficult for me is a portrait. You have to try
and put your camera between the skin of a person and his shirt”
Marathi daily Loksatta (लोकसत्ता) reported on July 28 2013 that the late Ms. Durga Bhagwat's (दुर्गा भागवत) portrait would be inaugurated on August 2 2013, tomorrow, at the Durbar hall of Asiatic Society of Mumbai.
The portrait is done by Mr. Suhas Bahulkar (सुहास बहुलकर).
A Marathi TV news channel interviewed Mr. Bahulkar in late July 2013 and, while he was interviewed, one could see the said portrait in the background. Mr. Bahulkar said it was still not finished.
I did NOT like the work-in-progress portrait at all. I did not like the spectacles used by the model. I did not like the slight plumpness of the model...It's likely that the TV screen is deceptive in this regard but I am stating my first impressions of it.
I have seen Mr. Bahulkar's portrait (only face) of S D Phadnis (शि द फडणीस) mounted on the wall of Mr. Phadnis's drawing room and I could not take my eyes off it, even though real Phadnis was sitting next to me!
I like to think of Durgabai as a Marathi middle-class home grown Albert Camus, a young, charming rebel.
"Camus's good looks and sex appeal, wearing a trench coat with upturned collar and the ever-present dangling cigarette"
I don't like to see her as a wise, kind, scholarly grandma who lived a long life. I know she was both but I am in love with the former.
Therefore, I wish the portrait was made using her following or similar picture.
courtesy: Jaya Dadkar (जया दडकर) and Lalit Magazine (ललित मासिक)