How does this artwork elucidate its Description?
The painting has been described as depicting "a young, tanned and handsome Donald Trump dressed in a white tennis sweater". Cowan intentionally painted Trump in white clothes to differentiate him from his darker, more formal clothes that he wore in New York City. In a profile of Cowan for Oxford American, Nicole Pasulka wrote that Cowan's subjects are often depicted "twenty pounds thinner and twenty years younger, often surrounded by heavenly light, riding exotic animals, or framed by mountain ranges", and that Trump's portrait had a "standard Cowan sky shot".In his 1997 profile of Trump for Playboy, Mark Bowden described Cowan's appeal to Trump as "The kind of painter he can appreciate, one who truly sees Trump the way he sees himself in the mirror". Bowden likened the portrait to a "Sun God", feeling that it portrayed a "wide-shouldered, thin-hipped Donald, his youthful face eclipsing the sun itself, his skin glowing like the top floors of Trump Tower at sunset, the color of warm bullion." Cowan describes his style as "romantic realism". Cowan has said of his work, "Nobody ever dislikes my portraits ... I know how to make them 'healthy' is the way I put it".
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