William asks for facts -- and it's very hard to prove that something happens
infrequently.
Are the works of the leading commission portrait painters of today ever hung
in major museums ?
Yes -- it turns out that Kinstler, Silverman, and Greene have made it into the
collections of the Metropolitan, the Butler Institute, The Columbus Museum,
etc.
But still -- it's enough of a rarity that I can't remember seeing them, or
any living painter like them, in any of the museums that I've visited over the
past 40 years. (and I've been to the Met hundreds of times)
Much less -- actually seeing a retrospective on any of them -- or anyone like
them -- which I doubt has happened in 50 years.
Just like the most successful current painters of landscapists, the foremost
living portrait painters are categorically excluded from consideration as
contemporary art -- and therefore are rarely found in art museums.
Perhaps, as William suggests -- they are all considered hacks.
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Miller's comment:
>
> The people who mostly make things on commission today are
> not recognized as
> the kind of artists worthy of museum display.
That's a very declarative statement. Perhaps Miller could back it up with
FACTS. Miller's thinking of the hack artists who do portraits of former
investment bankers in their best bespoke suits. But many artists who are well
represented in major museums do "commissioned" work for private collectors or
for public sites. But they don't retouch chins and noses.
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