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Brand New!! Shortlist Announced For Bp Portrait Respect 2014

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Two elderly women as well as a homeless human being painted past times an international shortlist of 3 virile somebody artists are inwards contest for the £30,000 BP Portrait Award 2014.

These are:
  • Thomas Ganter (Germany) for Man alongside a Plaid Blanket
  • David Kassan (USA) for Letter to my Mom and
  • Richard Twose (UK) for Jean Woods.

The minute as well as 3rd prizes inwards the 35th twelvemonth of this internationally prestigious fine art contest are worth £10,000 as well as £8,000.  

The winner of the BP Young Artist Award of £7,000 volition also live announced at the Awards Evening on the eve of Tuesday 24 June 2014 (the appointment is inwards my diary!)  I truly similar the thought that nobody has whatsoever thought who this volition live until the black itself.  Should build for a large turnout past times those aged xviii to 30! 

Exhibition

Man alongside a Plaid Blanket
past times Thomas Ganter, 2013
160 x lx cm crude on canvas
© Thomas Ganter
The BP Portrait Exhibition volition live held inwards London, Sunderland as well as Edinburgh:
  • the National Portrait Gallery inwards London (26 June – 21 September 2014). Admission is gratis - as well as this is ever a really pop exhibition alongside lots of visitors. 
  • Sunderland Museum as well as Winter Gardens (4 October, 2014 – xvi November, 2014) and 
  • The Scottish National Portrait Gallery (28 Nov – 12 April, 2015.)

Artists shortlisted for the BP Portrait Award 2014

I've got the high resolution images of these portraits as well as I bring to state I'm extremely impressed past times all 3 as well as tin build a illustration for each of them winning.

My gut says Ganter volition win. There's something really penetrating as well as yet enduring virtually that portrait as well as themes it raises. Plus I've never ever seen some other ikon similar it inwards the BP as well as originality counts for a lot.

Thomas Ganter

Age: 40
Nationality: German
Occupation: Artist as well as illustrator
Current home: Frankfurt/Main, Germany
Art education: ?
Previous appearances inwards this award: ?
Website: none
Subject: Karel, a homeless man
‘After existence inwards a museum, I saw a homeless human being as well as was stunned past times a similarity: the clothes, the pose, as well as other details resembled what I simply saw inwards diverse paintings. However, this fourth dimension I was looking at a homeless somebody wrapped inwards a blanket as well as non at the ikon of a saint or noble inwards their elaborate garment. By portraying a homeless human being inwards a mode reserved for nobles or saints, I tried to emphasise that everyone deserves honor as well as care. Human dignity shouldn’t live relative or subject on socio-economic status’. 
His shortlisted portrait invites the viewer to contemplate the coexistence of wealth as well as poverty.

Karel, who tries to earn some coin past times cleaning auto windscreens inwards the artist’s neighbourhood, attended v sittings for the portrait. After these, inwards which the caput as well as the hands were painted, Ganter used a life-sized doll, as well as painted the clothes as well as the blanket earlier finally adding the artificial bloom at the bottom right.

Letter to my Mom
past times David Jon Kassan, 2013
124.5 x 81 cm crude on aluminium panel
© David Jon Kassan

David Jon Kassan

Age: 37
Nationality: American - born inwards Little Rock, Arkansas
Occupation: Artist
Current home: Brooklyn, New York
Art education: ? withal he has 2 lists of recommended books and recommended materials
Previous appearances inwards this award: ?
Website: http://www.davidkassan.com
Blog: http://blog.davidkassan.com
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/kassan
Interview alongside the creative somebody on Youtube
Subject: Letter to my Mom is a portrait of his mother.

You tin take in much larger images of this portrait on his website.

His portrait is the production of a asking to his woman parent as well as virile somebody parent to sit down for him inwards his studio inwards New York City patch his parents made a brief halt on their agency to Europe.
‘My run is really personal as well as heartfelt. It’s my visual diary, therefore my household unit of measurement as well as loved ones build upwards a large purpose of what as well as why I paint. My parents bring ever been inspirational to paint. This portrait is a missive of the alphabet to my mom, who hates it when I pigment her. But I tell her inwards the ikon that past times ikon her, it is my agency of spending fourth dimension alongside her, contemplating our human relationship as well as fourth dimension together, my earliest memories’. The Hebrew text painted onto the portrait inwards a higher identify the sitter reads: ‘Dear Mom,/ This ikon is my agency to pass to a greater extent than fourth dimension alongside you./ My agency to meditate on our life together./ And all of the earliest memories I have/All of my earliest memories from you’.
Mothers are perennial as well as enduring sitters for BP portrait artists! Kassan's woman parent had sat for him a few years earlier as well as was reluctant to sit down for him again. In fellowship to persuade her, he had to bribe her past times offering her a ikon of his boy Lucas.  I recall all mothers should concur out for a bribe similar that!

Personally I recall the missive of the alphabet thought has a rigid appeal.

The ikon also reminds me a lot of Aleah Chapin's portrait from 2 years ago which inwards a agency I'm surprised about.  The notion is that "me too" paintings should live avoided at all costs.  However this is a really fine ikon judging past times the high resolution paradigm I've seen.  Maybe the similarity is to do alongside a trend of ikon inwards New York?

My reservation virtually this ikon is I simply don't quite take in a ikon which doesn't include the eyes truly winning this award.

Jean Woods
past times Richard Twose, 2014
xc x lx cm crude on board
© Richard Twose

Richard Twose

Age: 51
Nationality: British
Occupation: Teacher as well as creative somebody - he currently teaches Painting as well as Drawing as well as Art History at a 6th cast college inwards Bristol
Current home: Bath
Art education: ?
Previous appearances inwards this award: ?
Website: http://www.richardtwose.co.uk
Subject: Jean Woods, a 76 grandmother living inwards Larkhall, Bath

Richard Twose start saw the sitter of his portrait, Jean Woods, when she was working inwards a store inwards Bath. His immature adult woman told him that she was the grandmother of a friend after he saw her 1 time to a greater extent than inwards Channel Four's documentary Fabulous Fashionistas which was a.....
Cutting Edge documentary meets vi women alongside an average historic current of 80, who are determined to await fabulous, bring fun as well as redefine sometime age!
After calling her as well as asking her to sit down for him, he was struck past times her professionalism every bit a sitter –derived from her recent sense every bit a fashion model as well as from a character of stillness she seems to possess naturally.

He was impressed non exclusively past times her striking looks as well as contemporary, edgy style, but also past times the depth of grapheme inwards her face.
‘Sometimes every bit Jean was talking, specially virtually her much-missed piece of cake husband, she reminded me of Rembrandt's Portrait of Margaretha de Geer. Jean has a similar intensity as well as honesty inwards her gaze. I wanted to capture that sense of someone who has learnt to live almost fearless, looking forrad to life soundless but alongside a nifty richness of sense behind her’.
It's a fine portrait as well as good painted. However I discovery Jean Woods to a greater extent than striking inwards the photographs of her - click the links inwards a higher identify to take in what I mean.

Judging Panel

This year’s judging panel are:
  • Sandy Nairne, Director, National Portrait Gallery (Chair)
  • Sarah Howgate, Contemporary Curator, National Portrait Gallery
  • Dr Alexander Sturgis, Director of the Holburne Museum, Bath
  • Joanna Trollope, Author
  • Des Violaris, Director, United Kingdom of Great Britain as well as Northern Ireland of Britain as well as Northern Republic of Ireland Arts as well as Culture, BP
  • Jonathan Yeo, Artist

Observations virtually the shortlisted works


Note that:
  • not 1 of the portraits is a portrait of simply a head.  As I've pointed out inwards previous posts (see below), the panel desire to know whether you lot tin do to a greater extent than than pigment a caput - because that's what commissions for the NPG unremarkably involve.
  • all portray the private inwards a higher identify the waist
  • all build a characteristic of the hands - demonstrating abilities inwards that really of import area
  • colour palettes are really varied but impressive - these are people who know how to occupation colour
  • backgrounds are non apartment - fifty-fifty if 1 is flattish

Relative sizes

I did a piddling practise to banking venture gibe the relative sizes. This was prompted past times existence stunned when visiting the exhibition past times the really unlike sizes of some of the artwork of shortlisted artists inwards previous years.  I cranked upwards Excel as well as starting counting cells as well as and therefore overlayed the artwork - as well as and therefore thought 1 time to a greater extent than as well as lined them upwards every bit if on a wall.

Relative size of the 3 portraits
Left to right: Ganter, Kassan as well as Twoze

BP Portrait Award - previous years


I've been roofing the BP Portrait Award for some years as well as bring an extensive archive of posts relating to previous competitions which I know are much studied past times those contemplating an entry!

BP Portrait Award - Shortlisted artists on Making Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Mark:

BP Portrait Award 2012

BP Portrait Award 2011

BP Portrait Award 2010

BP Portrait Award 2009

BP Portrait Award 2008

BP Portrait Award 2007

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