If any portrait of Osceola is to be deemed REAL & AUTHENTIC then it would be one showing him IMPRISONED…Anything else would undoubtedly reflect Idealism and Artistic License…In the arts, Idealism encourages imagination and attempts to realize a mental conception of beauty, a standard of perfection, juxtaposed to naturalism and realism.In painting, idealism refers to the tradition of creating a “perfect” figure – one with a “goodlooking” face, “perfect” hair, a “good” body shape and no outward blemishes of any kind, rarely if ever painted or drawn from life…Essentially, it’s an “artificial” style of painting, that bears no resemblance to naturalism (caricature)A surprising number of people, do not understand that Museum Art, Movies, and Television, reflect what is called “Artistic license”It is a colloquial term, or euphemism, used to denote the DISTORTION OF FACT…Beginning during the 19th century and even earlier, Caucasian artists took to depicting historical people, as they hoped or imagined them to look…And in doing so, they made EVERYONE White, but that is not reality…
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