The Relationship Between Words and Visual Art

The portraits of Mr and Mrs Wakeman by Hans Euth reunited actually in this exhibition for the first time in 60 years. Richard Wakeman says, why vaunter's thou thy changing face or hast of it such a store? It's as though he's saying to his wife, why have you even had your picture painted? And she, and I just want to remind you that she's 36 when this is painted, she says, my childhood past that beautified my flesh and gone my youth that gave me colour fresh. She can look at this picture and it reminds her of how she's spent her time implied - not necessarily entirely as she might have done, maybe. But what

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