and, furthermore

she was a lover of gaugin; bright coloured, femme subjects of the native type, bordered the boundary of art and caricature. there is nothing subtle about this style, some say the style offends - depictions of the human form in an almost primitive sense - an exaggerated otherness, human looking but strangely akin to beast and not kin. gaugin's sense of tahiti (read: black) women sits nicely with the views of the creators of alek wek, standards standards, we all have 'em. i told her my style - dare i say - is perhaps more understated (understated in the "less is more tradition"), she understood