13Th October 2013 - Who's Made A Compass This Week?

Back inward August I wrote about The £5,000 Bristol Art Prize and how the Bath Art Prize had changed cities - too moved to Bristol - but stayed inward the due south westward of England.

We straightaway direct keep a winner.

Beating pump of Bristol past times Adrian Sykes
acrylic painting, 120cm x 160cm
copyright the artist

This yr the winner is Bristol-based painter Adrian Sykes for capturing ‘the spirit of Bristol inward 2013’. His epitome "Beating Heart of Bristol" was judged the best of over 200 industrial plant which were created inward Bristol too entered inward the contest during the summer.

The epitome takes inward a panoramic persuasion of the urban pith stretching from the Victorian houses of Jamaica Street too Stokes Croft past times the spire of St Pauls too urban pith centre tower blocks to the hills inward the South too South East. The vogue is fanciful yet it includes the people too the architectural exceptional that makes this business office of the urban pith come upwardly alive.

As with the Bath Prize, artists who entered were each allocated ane of 34 locations inward the City too required to create at to the lowest degree ane move inspired past times what they saw there. For additional entries they could select whatever location inward the City.

More than one-half of the 114 painters contributing move to the exhibit were based inward the Bristol expanse with others attracted to Bristol from equally far afield equally Northumberland, Cornwall, London too County Clare.

You tin see the paintings produced on the contest website.  For the balance of this calendar month you lot tin also encounter The Bristol Art Prize Exhibition at The Guildhall Arts Centre, Small Street, Bristol BS1 1DW. Opening times : Tuesdays too Wednesdays 2pm to 5pm; Thursdays, Fridays too Saturdays 10am to 5pm

I mean value the prize is a neat idea. It's a compassion to a greater extent than cities don't practise likewise.

Artists too Art Blogs

Art

RECOMMENDED READ Grayson Perry being articulate again

• this time Grayson Perry’s Reith Lectures: Who decides what makes fine art good? which was reprinted inward the Financial Times.
• you tin also listen him shortly on BBC iPlayer Grayson Perry: Playing to the Gallery: 2013 Episode 1 of iv - which volition live broadcast on Radio on iv at 9.00am on fifteen October 

In Why no Nobel prize for art? It's equally eloquent equally literature, Jonathan Jones discusses the instance for a Nobel Prize for Art. He has a point!

edward-winkelman has an opened upwardly thread which aims to move out what is the side past times side large matter inward the
fine art basis - encounter A few pre-caffeinated thoughts on the side past times side large matter | Open Thread

I latterly wrote nearly a construct novel mag - or rather bookazine inward "Discover Art" Bookazine to launch side past times side month. My article has straightaway made the forepart cover!

Latest version of comprehend for Discover Art
sees my article promoted to the forepart age!

Botanical Art

• Take a expect at the botanical fine art of Lucy T Smith.  Back inward Apr she won the 2nd Prize, Margaret Flockton Award 2013. She also produces proper scientific illustrations inward pen too ink
• I loved Claire K Ward's (Getting ready
• Here's the collection Diane Sutherland made of botanical too nature paintings inward the Rijksmuseum

Drawing too Sketching

• Thanks to Jan Blencowe for spotting The Big Drawing Book Review 2013 however events direct keep conspired to instruct out me with non much fourth dimension for reviews to engagement - but I'm determined to construct amends.  Starting with buying a novel mass nearly drawing lastly calendar week which is fabulous!
• You tin notice my start review here Book review: One Drawing a Day (on Making H5N1 Mark reviews)

Painting

• Apparently Banksy is inward New York - too has a dedicated website for the visit too exhibition 'Better Out than In'.  
• According to this article inward the Guardian, some New Yorkers were non impressed too started to pigment over his move - see Banksy shows upwardly on the streets of New York for month-long residency. 
• Another article wonders Banksy makes a splash inward New York – but what volition instruct of the murals?
• David Poxon's pure watercolour epitome 'In a Farmyard' has won an honour at the National Watercolor Society's 93rd Annual International Exhibition (November 10th, 2013 – Jan 11th, 2014) inward San Pedro, Los Angeles,CA USA.

In a Farmyard past times David Poxon
 a prizewinner at the National Watercolor Society's 93rd Annual International Exhibition

• There's really picayune data on the Internet nearly epitome on vellum. Painting on Vellum in which she compares the dissimilar types of vellum too provides tips for those wanting to order it a try.  This is inward improver to the page on her website inward which she has Notes on Painting on Vellum.  Both are included in my website about Fine Art Paper & Vellum for Artists
• Pamela Curry Greene is writing nearly her sense on a Julian Merrow Smith epitome workshop inward Provence on her blog pamela curry greene art.  Meanwhile Julian's married adult woman Ruth is also posting pics of the painters on the Postcard from Provence blog.  Sounds similar this bunch are fast workers too are giving the vines a skillful workout!
  

Pastels too Pencils

• If you've non yet taken a expect at Tanja Gant's website of portraits inward coloured pencils you lot should.  These are non only technically skillful - they're portraits with attitude!
• Gayle Mason's (Fur inward the Paint) instant article nearly drawing animals too wild fauna inward coloured pencils tin live constitute inward the Nov edition of 'Leisure Painter'. 
• I was really struck past times Julie Podstolski's coloured pencil drawing of a Geisha inward the Pencil Art Society's first Online Juried Exhibition.  I dear the juxtaposition of the really traditional wearing clothing too everyday life. I direct keep a theory which is that people who direct keep an optic for producing an interesting perspective on good known visual images direct keep neat photos.  So I took at expect at her weblog juliepodstolski - too she's added to a greater extent than evidence to my theory.

Who painted this?

• Who Painted This? #48 - this fourth dimension the winner volition live the soul who provides the best respond nearly creative soul and/or painting.  
• Who Painted This? #47 - a novel twist asked for the best respond nearly the artist

Art Business & Marketing

Art Marketing

• Letter to an artist - was my post service nearly what to focus on when trying to marketplace your fine art online - too who gets featured on this blog!
• This is an splendid post service on Artsy Shark nearly why 15 Ways to Make Your Art Career More Successful
• Bookmark me!  I've made an about.me page . This is it http://about.me/katherine.tyrrell. It has links to all the other places you lot tin notice me online. I direct keep to state it powerfulness live an former chip of social media but it was only what I was looking for - all the primary bookmarks on ane page!

Selling Art

• A duo of really interesting posts for artists keen on selling their fine art on Alyson Stanfield's ArtBizBlog
• First Five Realities of Art Licensing 
• Next up, some other invitee blogger Vacation Leads to Quadrupling Art Sales
• Eric Maisel continues the topic with his post service about Turning Tourists into Art Customers

Art collectors & fine art economy 

Art Auctions

• Financial Times - These are the October fine art auctions inward London

Art Collectors

• Collecting artists, non art - Delfina Entrecanales is a legendary fine art supporter who is soundless feisty too breaking novel basis at 84

Art Fairs

• Fair crop: life beyond Frieze Week The tumble is awash with events selling emerging, affordable too editioned art

Art Competitions

• It's too thence lamentable that £10,000 Threadneedle Prize People's Choice Award didn't move to an creative soul who was making their career equally a fine creative soul producing figurative art. To encounter who won move to my review of the exhibition, move to the terminate too depository fiscal establishment complaint the slice which I indicated I was afraid would win - because (1) the creative soul industrial plant very, really difficult at their marketing too (2) the balance of his move is only "titillation art" with a gimmick - although I mean value he's cleaned upwardly his website since he won the prize. I shall inward hereafter live an advocate of the notion that the winner of a prize should NOT live the land of written report of a populace vote. Interestingly I can't exhibit you lot what this move looks similar equally I never fifty-fifty took a photograph of it.  
• The Artists & Illustrators Magazine Artists of the Year contest is an annual search for the best undiscovered artists.  I direct keep to state its shortlist for the prize Artist of the Year 2013 includes some artists who I would non depict equally 'undiscovered'!

Art Exhibitions

The New York Times has commented on what appears to live a electrical current tendency inward Europe - a breakout of birthday suits! With Money Tight, Museums Embrace Nudes - referencing:

• Musée d'Orsay - Masculin/Masculin (24 September 2013 - ii Jan 2014) is getting 4,500 visitors a day.  Its YouTube Video initially attracted an X rating!
• British Museum - Shunga sex too pleasure in Japanese art (3 Oct 2013 – five Jan 2014)

Plus there's a novel exhibition coming upwardly at the Wallace Collection - The Male Nude: Eighteenth Century drawings from the Paris Academy (24 Oct 2013 - nineteen Jan 2014)

Anybody who has ever doubted the Facebook Policy on "no nudes" should endeavor referencing them!

Art Society Exhibitions

• This is my review of the Pencil Arts Society Annual Exhibition - Selected Artists too Award Winners.  That's a jolly skillful start exhibition for a construct novel fine art society.

Opening this calendar week at the Mall Galleries are the Annual Exhibitions of:

• Royal Miniature Society exhibition 
• Royal Society of Marine Artists' 68th Annual Exhibition - featuring around nearly 300 paintings too sculptures is opening 16th Oct until 27th October.

Major Exhibitions inward London

• National Gallery (Sainsbury Wing) - Facing the Modern: The Portrait inward Vienna 1900 (9 Oct 2013 – 12 Jan 2014) - Portrait paintings past times Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele too Oskar Kokoschka
• my Review: Facing the Modern - The Portrait inward Vienna 1900 (8 Oct 2013)- I recommend it for portrait artists too those who bask fine art past times Klimt, Schiele too Kokochka
• Hothouse of the vanities Jackie Wullschlager takes the National Gallery to chore over its novel exhibit of Viennese modernism.  She articulates what was for me an unspoken niggle at the time.
• National Portrait Gallery - Review: 'Elizabeth I too Her People' at the National Portrait Gallery

Opening side past times side calendar week is

• Paul Klee at Tate Modern xvi Oct 2013 – nine March 2014. Paul Klee is ane of the neat innovators amid twentieth-century artists
• An American inward London: Whistler too the Thames at the Dulwich Picture Gallery (16 Oct 2013 - 12 Jan 2014). I'm actually looking forwards to what volition live a major nearly Whistler's paintings, drawings, pastels, watercolours too prints of Chelsea too the Thames River including his iconic Nocturnes 

Exhibitions inward the UK

• In Margate the Turner Contemporary has Turner too Constable: Sketching from Nature. Works from the Tate collection five Oct 2013 - five Jan 2014.  The exhibition has over 75 crude oil sketches, watercolours too finished oils from the Tate collection past times JMW Turner, John Constable too their contemporaries. shall live making a trip!

Exhibitions inward Europe

• Velázquez too the Family of Philip IV (October 8, 2013 - Feb 9, 2014) at the Prado

Exhibitions inward the USA

• Museum of Modern Art: ‘American Modern: Hopper to O’Keeffe’ (until 26 Jan 2014).  It's essentially a review of the industrial plant inward the MOMA Collection which belong to the catamenia 1915 too 1950. Artists represented include George Bellows, Stuart Davis, Edward Hopper, Georgia O’Keeffe, Charles Sheeler, Alfred Stieglitz, too Andrew Wyeth, amid many others. Here are the reviews:
• New York Times - Slideshow - plus review Comfortable Old Friends ‘American Modern: Hopper to O’Keeffe’ Opens at MoMA
• Wall Street Journal - A New Look at American All-Stars
• The New Yorker - American Modern: Hopper to O'Keeffe
• Color! American Photography Transformed - an exhibition showing at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art inward Texas until Jan five 2014.  Here's an instance of ane of the photographs on exhibit - it recreates the expect of an impressionist epitome - Snapshot: Still Life with Peaches, 1912, Laura Gilpin

Art History & Museums

• A novel Brueghel has come upwardly to lite - for the start fourth dimension inward 400 years - see Pieter Brueghel the Younger: ‘The Census at Bethlehem’ in the Financial Times
• Another surprising even out suggests that Velázquez portrait has pride of identify inward Prado – but master copy may live inward Dorset!  Next calendar month the epitome which currently lives inward a National Trust holding at Kingston Lacy inward Dorset volition live shown inward Kingdom of Spain for the start time, amongst an exhibition of Velázquez's portraits at the Prado.
• Keiran Long was an architecture journalist (currently to live seen on the boob tube commenting on architecture) before POLL: Who is your favourite artists' pigment manufacturer?
  
  

  Techies

  
  

  Facebook too Blogs

  • Facecrooks explains the major alter which happened this calendar week - All Facebook Users Will Now Appear inward Search.  
  • However depository fiscal establishment complaint that you lot tin soundless block private users from seeing your Facebook Account.  
  • Otherwise you lot demand to role your settings to command how you lot part the data on your account. 
  • My personal concern human relationship is express to friends too solid unit of measurement - with all weblog too other fine art data on my Makingamark Facebook Page which is ever public

  and finally......

  Thanks to Sophie Ploeg for spotting this ane - QUIZ: Can You Tell The Difference Between Modern Art And Paintings By Toddlers?
  
  I got vii out of xi correct but must confess haven't been looking at likewise much toddler fine art of late.
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