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Pictures of John Wayne are most often seen in the context of reproductions of
movie posters and photographs. Other pictures of John Wayne are often
amateur sketches or commercial-art type head studies which can be readily
seen at any local crafts fair. It is rare when a serious artist such as
Elena Roché embraces this popular subject in a classical manner, elevating a
portrait of John Wayne to high art. More often these pictures of John
Wayne are mere caricatures that debase the career of the man and the message of
his films.
Of course we must separate the man from the roles that he played, never
confusing what an actor "acts" with what he "does". At the same time we
must note that there was a theme in the films of John Wayne that spoke to the
ideals and yearnings of the man and there was a life where he struggled to
realize those ideals and yearnings. Thus, Elena Roché presents a portrait,
the theme taken from a movie role, which manages to capture the man and the myth
in a work of art that fulfills our highest expectations of the many and varied
pictures of John Wayne.
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