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Brand New!! Bp Portrait Exhibition 2013 - Video & Review

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Every twelvemonth when reviewing the BP Portrait Exhibition I endeavour to:
  • identify the portraits I similar the best;
  • focus on things to retrieve almost for those who desire to acquire into side yesteryear side twelvemonth - as well as acquire selected!
  • AND upload a video of a walkround the exhibition at the destination of the Press View
This twelvemonth it's no dissimilar for the BP Portrait Award Exhibition 2013.

View of the get-go of the BP Portrait Exhibition 2013Photo © Katherine Tyrrell
First the video.

I should explicate that I stimulate got to hold off until the real destination of the Press View as well as and thus I acquire alone a few minutes to walk circular without having 1 optic on the paintings, 1 optic on what the camera's viewing as well as 1 optic opened upward broad to navigate circular all the other people.  Even alongside 2 construct novel eyes I withal alone stimulate got 2 - thus it's best to hold off to the real destination when there's real few people as well as and thus practise it fast.  What it does hateful is if I've skipped rather every bit good speedily over whatever aspect, there's no fourth dimension to stance as well as redo.



Every fourth dimension I practise a video I construct a resolution to write downwards what I'm supposed to practise inwards i-video as well as inwards YouTube. On the other mitt each fourth dimension I larn something novel - this fourth dimension it was color as well as good adjustments inwards i-video as well as how to annotate inwards YouTube.  Which way you'll meet iii notes popular upward every bit you lot acquire to the paintings which won the First Prize, Second Prize as well as the Young Artist Awards.

Overall Impressions


It's a adept exhibit but oddly no 1 slice made me acquire "Wow".  On the other mitt things I liked almost it included:
  • the multifariousness - the sheer hit inwards people, styles, approaches to ikon as well as size of portraits is absolutely amazing.  For me it illustrates why ultimately ikon is thus much to a greater extent than interesting than photography when it comes to portraying people.
  • the hang - I peculiarly liked the way the smaller industrial plant were typically broken upward yesteryear larger works.  In the yesteryear when every bit good many pocket-size industrial plant stimulate got been hung together the gallery has had log jams!
  • work yesteryear international artists from all over the place.  (see Heterochrome  and HK Park  Portrait Sketch of Charles 
  • My Diary No.5 my Miseon Lee
    750 x 1370 Oil Linen 
    © Miseon Lee
    Photo © Katherine Tyrrell
      withal lots of hyper-realism every bit good every bit realism      .  I prefer realism small, otherwise I acquire distracted yesteryear examining the technique.  However don't run away alongside the notion that realism gets you lot inwards every bit at that topographic point were lots of other styles of ikon although the vast bulk were straightforwardly representational
    • Some - such every bit Miseon Lee - role the realism to demonstrate that they're fabulous at ikon fabrics! (see right)
    • Oddly enough, given the liking for realism, at that topographic point are very few which are genuinely lifesize.  Think almost it - that's real odd.
    • I'm withal silent non seeing many sum figure or caput as well as trunk paintings.  As I said final year, you lot alone stimulate got to await at the portraits inwards the galleries higher upward to know that you lot in all likelihood acquire extra points for tackling a sum length portrait.  Note that the winner was a 3/4 length figure sitting down.
    • Very few grouping portraits or portraits involving to a greater extent than than 1 person.  I similar the fact that at to the lowest degree iv of these opted for a 'normal' setting which provided context for the people.  
      • I liked The Roadhouse Crew.  Each figure is painted real exactly as well as yet there's a lot of personality for a bunch of blokes inwards dark leather as well as helmets standing side yesteryear side to their customised motorbikes.
    BP Portrait Award 2013 - Selected Artists as well as Statistics )  This twelvemonth they had entries from lxx dissimilar countries.  I similar to retrieve that this spider web log has played a pocket-size share inwards spreading the give-and-take almost the contest as well as how to acquire into - as well as things to retrieve about!
  • the BP Travel Award exhibition - which is the best I've ever seen.  (More almost this on Sunday)
    • I also got the distinct impression that somebody on the judging panels likes acid yellow/ yellowish greenish shades - at that topographic point seems to move a lot of this color this year!

    BP Portrait Exhibition 2013 - View of share of the other side of the Gallery
    Photo © Katherine Tyrrell
    In price of the actual paintings:
    • big heads are VERY big - I counted 4
    • lots of pocket-size heads alone portraits
    • fewer children than inwards the past - or mayhap it's exactly that the children are older
    • I liked the theme of looking at portrait painters ikon portraits - accept a await at the industrial plant by Heterochrome  and HK Park  Portrait Sketch of Charles 
    • My Diary No.5 my Miseon Lee
      750 x 1370 Oil Linen 
      © Miseon Lee
      Photo © Katherine Tyrrell
        withal lots of hyper-realism every bit good every bit realism        .  I prefer realism small, otherwise I acquire distracted yesteryear examining the technique.  However don't run away alongside the notion that realism gets you lot inwards every bit at that topographic point were lots of other styles of ikon although the vast bulk were straightforwardly representational
      • Some - such every bit Miseon Lee - role the realism to demonstrate that they're fabulous at ikon fabrics! (see right)
      • Oddly enough, given the liking for realism, at that topographic point are very few which are genuinely lifesize.  Think almost it - that's real odd.
      • I'm withal silent non seeing many sum figure or caput as well as trunk paintings.  As I said final year, you lot alone stimulate got to await at the portraits inwards the galleries higher upward to know that you lot in all likelihood acquire extra points for tackling a sum length portrait.  Note that the winner was a 3/4 length figure sitting down.
      • Very few grouping portraits or portraits involving to a greater extent than than 1 person.  I similar the fact that at to the lowest degree iv of these opted for a 'normal' setting which provided context for the people.  
        • I liked The Roadhouse Crew.  Each figure is painted real exactly as well as yet there's a lot of personality for a bunch of blokes inwards dark leather as well as helmets standing side yesteryear side to their customised motorbikes.
      The Roadhouse Crew by Tony Noble
      1400 x 1660 Oil canvas © Tony Noble
      Photo © Katherine Tyrrell
        • What I similar almost Carl Randall's paintings of Japanese people is that each as well as every caput is a mini portrait painted from life - thus what nosotros stimulate got hither are multiple portraits.  His painting of Shinjuku - the world's busiest railway station - which handles to a greater extent than than 3.5 1000000 passengers every solar daytime - reflects contemporary life for the masses. It shows a current of people all moving slow along the platform, many alongside telephone inwards mitt alongside the railway lines, other platforms as well as the offices of corporate Nippon forming a backdrop.  It's a portrait of the people of Tokyo.
      Carl Randall ikon 1 of the portraits of a homo inwards the crowd in Shinjuku, Tokyo 
      Excerpted from "Carl Randall - Nippon Portraits" on YouTube

      Shinjuku, Tokyo yesteryear Carl Randall
      1060 x 2330 Oil canvass
      © Carl Randall
      Photo © Katherine Tyrrell

      So what I'd personally similar to meet side yesteryear side twelvemonth are to a greater extent than life size sum figures inwards 'normal' contexts.  It would also move prissy to meet a grouping win a prize.

      Viewer's Choice


      I'm non real adept at predicting the Viewer's Choice.  I've non yet voted every bit I ever similar to meet which portrait I desire to await at again.

      This twelvemonth I retrieve it's going to be  Pamela Newell Sellers 430 x 430 Egg Tempera Claybord Panel  by Leslie Watts, who's a a contemporary realist working inwards Stratford, Ontario, Canada.

      It's painted inwards Egg Tempera as well as I'm a large Egg Tempera fan.  It's also 1 medium where I excuse pocket-size portraits which are express to the caput due to the nature of the ikon using egg tempera.  If you're coming to exhibition you lot powerfulness similar to stimulate got a magnifying drinking glass (I had my magnifying spectacles on which are keen upward close!).

      It's also a real fine portrait - there's non many who pigment the skin, eyes as well as pilus of older ladies this well.  Plus I honey the pose - looking directly at me inwards a way which engaged me immediately.

      Pamela Newell Sellers by Leslie Watts
      430 x 430 Egg Tempera Claybord Panel

      25 years on......


      It was keen when the contest switched from beingness almost portrait painters nether the historic stream of forty to allowing anybody aged eighteen as well as over to enter

      My feeling is that every bit the sponsorship reaches 25 years inwards 2014, at that topographic point needs to move some other momentous stride forward.

      I'm going to comprehend my thought inwards a split postal service before long - I hit off to retrieve it would move keen for both portraiture at large as well as the Gallery inwards item as well as would introduce a whole novel challenge for portrait artists.

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