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Two portraits
Look at Picasso’s portrait, below, of Dora Maar (1937). Traditional portraiture aimed
to capture the subject. But now, photography can do this. Picasso doesn’t reproduce
reality, but rather re-creates and in so doing explores its possibilities. Yet if you saw
her, you’d recognise her:
Compare this to a portrait by Otto Dix, of Sylvia von Harden (1927).
