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The Artist-Model Relationship |
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Standards for appropriate relationships between artists and models
are usually expected to follow the first approach described above:
models and artists are advised to maintain a "professional" distance
from each other, for fear that they might allow a personal attraction
which develops to become, suddenly and uncontrollably, a sexual one.
There are cases, even well-known ones, of times when this has
happened - but spelling out the possibility shows that it needs no
more care in this relationship than it does in any other. Prudence
belongs in any developing relationship.
Where model and artist find the second approach to life drawing
more appropriate, they begin with their relationship as a personal
one, with the development of art as one of its primary purposes.
Such a relationship can grow in all sorts of directions (as other
relationships grow); it can change in its nature, or dissolve - as
other relationships do. Even in its strict sense of being people
working with each other it can be exciting, fascinating, a source of
intense personal growth, and a fountainhead for marvelous art. A
good working relationship reaches its highest value, both personal
and productive, when it grows into a relationship of people working
together with love.
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