He had something else in mind, portraits that looked more like fashion photography, taken against a blank canvas.
In "Father" a small adult man is cradled by a portrait of the artist as a 14-year-old whose clouded face, tied collar and ample hair brings to mind portraits of early-19th-century Romantics — Robert Schumann, for example.
One reportedly alluded to Einstein's theory of relativity and his unified field theory as a kind of mind-portrait.
Near the top, the initials "US" sit upon a silver crest that calls to mind the portrait on the obverse of a dollar bill.
Atwood's style and complexion also brought to mind Dutch portrait painters such as Frans Hals, whose work Dukovic drew upon in plotting his picture's composition.
Up the road, the Brancolini Grimaldi gallery is hosting Peter Fraser's new exhibition, A City of the Mind, a portrait of London inspired by Italo Calvino's novel Invisible Cities.
Blending café society portraiture kitsch with a contrasted light influenced by the avant-garde cinema of the period ("Metropolis" springs to mind), the portrait could be seen as one of the forerunners of Pop.
Since any advertisement is done thoughtfully and with a certain goal in mind, the portrait can be considered as an element in advertising.
His portraits are mostly of men, though I was lucky enough to be one of his few female subjects, presented larger than life on a 7.5 ft. canvas, strong and sturdy, resembling (at least in my own mind) a portrait of an Amazonian warrior from Rome.
The open lips could be softly uttering a lament, bringing to mind some portraits of martyrs by Zurbarán in 16th-century Spain.
In its mixture of the mundane and the extreme, "Far Away" also brings to mind the portraits of disrupted, dehumanized lives in "Mad Forest" (1990), Ms. Churchill's study in post-revolutionary Romania.
