Its amazing how things you've learnt in your past play on your subconcious. Theres a big difference between copying someones work and being influenced by it. The difference is ever so fine and quite often mistaken for the wrong one. I learnt of the Arnolfini Portrait a few years back, its one of the painting i studied at college. I thought it was all but a memory but i can see it emanating here in my current work. I was actually trying to create something entirely different but by chance i produce a picture thats formal elements are the same as Jan Van Eyck's. I love it when things like this happen all by chance.
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