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Fiona Sampson [UK]

  After Goya     In Goya’s drawings the line’s frenzied even when the content seems less than disgusting that girl dancing for example    with or without the leering crowd the lightness of her feet                                          and the movement in her shift dress float almost       but in his portraits the face emerges from crosshatching as if the whole image were a rubbing taken of the face in which darker patches emerge                                                under the pencil shading   reg...