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I always paint without a model, because being a conceptual painter, being a painter whose interest is in ideas, the model gets in the road.
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The speaker says they do not paint from a physical model because their main focus is on ideas. A model would place a visible subject between the painter and the concept they want to express, so it “gets in the road.” The point is not that models are useless, but that they would distract from this idea-led way of painting.
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- National Portrait Gallery of Australia, “John Brack — In their own words”
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