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Shortlist Announced For Bp Portrait Laurels 2014

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Two elderly women too a homeless human painted yesteryear an international shortlist of iii manly someone artists are inward contest for the £30,000 BP Portrait Award 2014.

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

The mo too 3rd prizes inward the 35th twelvemonth of this internationally prestigious fine art contest are worth £10,000 too £8,000.  

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

Exhibition

Man amongst a Plaid Blanket
yesteryear Thomas Ganter, 2013
160 x sixty cm petroleum on canvas
© Thomas Ganter
The BP Portrait Exhibition volition live held inward London, Sunderland too Edinburgh:
  • the National Portrait Gallery inward London (26 June – 21 September 2014). Admission is complimentary - too this is ever a real pop exhibition amongst lots of visitors. 
  • Sunderland Museum too 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 too I accept to state I'm extremely impressed yesteryear all iii too tin sack construct a representative for each of them winning.

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

Thomas Ganter

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

Karel, who tries to earn some coin yesteryear cleaning automobile windscreens inward the artist’s neighbourhood, attended v sittings for the portrait. After these, inward which the caput too the hands were painted, Ganter used a life-sized doll, too painted the clothes too the blanket earlier finally adding the artificial blossom at the bottom right.

Letter to my Mom
yesteryear David Jon Kassan, 2013
124.5 x 81 cm petroleum on aluminium panel
© David Jon Kassan

David Jon Kassan

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

You tin sack reckon much larger images of this portrait on his website.

His portrait is the production of a asking to his woman parent too manly someone parent to sit down for him inward his studio inward New York City piece his parents made a brief halt on their agency to Europe.
‘My function is real personal too heartfelt. It’s my visual diary, thus my household unit of measurement too loved ones construct upward a large utilisation of what too why I paint. My parents accept 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 inward the ikon that yesteryear ikon her, it is my agency of spending fourth dimension amongst her, contemplating our human relationship too fourth dimension together, my earliest memories’. The Hebrew text painted onto the portrait inward a higher identify the sitter reads: ‘Dear Mom,/ This ikon is my agency to pass to a greater extent than fourth dimension amongst 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 too enduring sitters for BP portrait artists! Kassan's woman parent had sat for him a few years earlier too was reluctant to sit down for him again. In gild to persuade her, he had to bribe her yesteryear offering her a ikon of his boy Lucas.  I retrieve all mothers should concord out for a bribe similar that!

Personally I retrieve the missive of the alphabet thought has a potent appeal.

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

My reservation nearly this ikon is I but don't quite reckon a ikon which doesn't include the eyes genuinely winning this award.

Jean Woods
yesteryear Richard Twose, 2014
xc x sixty cm petroleum on board
© Richard Twose

Richard Twose

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

Richard Twose kickoff saw the sitter of his portrait, Jean Woods, when she was working inward a store inward Bath. His immature lady told him that she was the grandmother of a friend after he saw her in 1 lawsuit to a greater extent than inward Channel Four's documentary Fabulous Fashionistas which was a.....
Cutting Edge documentary meets 6 women amongst an average historic current of 80, who are determined to await fabulous, accept fun too redefine sometime age!
After calling her too asking her to sit down for him, he was struck yesteryear her professionalism equally a sitter –derived from her recent sense equally a fashion model too from a lineament of stillness she seems to possess naturally.

He was impressed non exclusively yesteryear her striking looks too contemporary, edgy style, but also yesteryear the depth of grapheme inward her face.
‘Sometimes equally Jean was talking, specially nearly her much-missed belatedly husband, she reminded me of Rembrandt's Portrait of Margaretha de Geer. Jean has a similar intensity too honesty inward her gaze. I wanted to capture that sense of someone who has learnt to live almost fearless, looking forwards to life soundless but amongst a groovy richness of sense behind her’.
It's a fine portrait too good painted. However I observe Jean Woods to a greater extent than striking inward the photographs of her - click the links inward a higher identify to reckon 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, U.K. Arts too Culture, BP
  • Jonathan Yeo, Artist

Observations nearly the shortlisted works


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

Relative sizes

I did a footling practice to cheque the relative sizes. This was prompted yesteryear beingness stunned when visiting the exhibition yesteryear the real dissimilar sizes of some of the artwork of shortlisted artists inward previous years.  I cranked upward Excel too starting counting cells too and thus overlayed the artwork - too and thus thought in 1 lawsuit to a greater extent than too lined them upward equally if on a wall.

Relative size of the iii portraits
Left to right: Ganter, Kassan too Twoze

BP Portrait Award - previous years


I've been roofing the BP Portrait Award for some years too accept an extensive archive of posts relating to previous competitions which I know are much studied yesteryear 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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