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| 02.05.05 An art form turning its face to the future Rebecca Rose, Financial Times "...Jonathan Yeo, who painted the first specially commissioned election portrait in 2001 - a powerful, lopsided triptych of the party leaders Tony Blair, William Hague and Charles Kennedy that played with the idea of power - is another for whom business has always been brisk. Having recently painted Rupert Murdoch and Dennis Hopper, Yeo is so busy that he can afford to turn down commissions that do not interest him. Someone who did interest him, however, was the supermodel Erin O'Connor, one of the most photographed women in Britain, who went to Yeo because she wanted to see herself in paint for once. O'Connor is not alone in her urge to shun the photograph. We have become so used to the manipulations of Photoshop and the idea of the doctored image that, as a portrait medium, photography is losing its documentary integrity. "Maybe we are beginning to trust paint more," suggests Yeo. "We trust Lucien Freud more than we do a photographer"......"
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