Yes... thats pretty much exactly what I am saying. I would say that one thing she lacked is a consistent sense of self. Her work was stylistically diverse. Thou

Yes... thats pretty much exactly what I am saying. I would say that one thing she lacked is a consistent sense of self. Her work was stylistically diverse. Though some artists (e.g. David Bowie, Gerhard Richter) can get away with this, for her it comes across as an uncertainty of self. Another thing was that she was very well trained in the academic tradition. This gave her a set of skills which she could not un-learn, but were at odds with the spirit of the time. Another artist mentioned in this article was Henri Fantin De Latour. He was similarly skilled, but was also deadly focused on still life as subject matter. Though he was never a hip impressionist, still-lives were very much in agreement with much of the impressionist 'project'.