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Bp Portrait Exhibition 2013 - Video & Review

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Every twelvemonth when reviewing the BP Portrait Exhibition I endeavor to:
  • identify the portraits I similar the best;
  • focus on things to scream back almost for those who desire to travel into adjacent twelvemonth - in addition to acquire selected!
  • AND upload a video of a walkround the exhibition at the halt of the Press View
This twelvemonth it's no unlike 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 guide maintain to hold off until the really halt of the Press View in addition to hence I acquire alone a few minutes to walk circular without having 1 oculus on the paintings, 1 oculus on what the camera's viewing in addition to 1 oculus opened upwards broad to navigate circular all the other people.  Even amongst 2 construct novel eyes I withal alone guide maintain 2 - hence it's best to hold off to the really halt when there's really few people in addition to hence produce it fast.  What it does hateful is if I've skipped rather likewise rapidly over whatsoever aspect, there's no fourth dimension to sentiment in addition to redo.



Every fourth dimension I produce a video I construct a resolution to write downward what I'm supposed to produce inward i-video in addition to inward YouTube. On the other mitt each fourth dimension I acquire something novel - this fourth dimension it was color in addition to good adjustments inward i-video in addition to how to annotate inward YouTube.  Which way you'll run into 3 notes popular upwards every bit yous acquire to the paintings which won the First Prize, Second Prize in addition to the Young Artist Awards.

Overall Impressions


It's a expert demo but oddly no 1 slice made me acquire "Wow".  On the other mitt things I liked almost it included:
  • the multifariousness - the sheer hit inward people, styles, approaches to prototype in addition to size of portraits is absolutely amazing.  For me it illustrates why ultimately prototype is hence much to a greater extent than interesting than photography when it comes to portraying people.
  • the hang - I specially liked the way the smaller industrial plant were typically broken upwards past times larger works.  In the past times when likewise many pocket-sized industrial plant guide maintain been hung together the gallery has had log jams!
  • work past times 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 past times examining the technique.  However don't run away amongst the notion that realism gets yous inward every bit at that topographic point were lots of other styles of prototype although the vast bulk were straightforwardly representational
    • Some - such every bit Miseon Lee - purpose the realism to demonstrate that they're fabulous at prototype 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 really odd.
    • I'm withal soundless non seeing many amount figure or caput in addition to body paintings.  As I said final year, yous alone guide maintain to await at the portraits inward the galleries inward a higher house to know that yous in all probability acquire extra points for tackling a amount 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 4 of these opted for a 'normal' setting which provided context for the people.  
      • I liked The Roadhouse Crew.  Each figure is painted really merely in addition to yet there's a lot of personality for a bunch of blokes inward dark leather in addition to helmets standing adjacent to their customised motorbikes.
    BP Portrait Award 2013 - Selected Artists in addition to Statistics )  This twelvemonth they had entries from lxx unlike countries.  I similar to scream back that this weblog has played a pocket-sized component subdivision inward spreading the give-and-take almost the contest in addition to how to travel into - in addition to things to scream back 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/ xanthous light-green shades - at that topographic point seems to last a lot of this color this year!

    BP Portrait Exhibition 2013 - View of component subdivision of the other side of the Gallery
    Photo © Katherine Tyrrell
    In damage of the actual paintings:
    • big heads are VERY big - I counted 4
    • lots of pocket-sized heads alone portraits
    • fewer children than inward the past - or perhaps it's exactly that the children are older
    • I liked the theme of looking at portrait painters prototype 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 past times examining the technique.  However don't run away amongst the notion that realism gets yous inward every bit at that topographic point were lots of other styles of prototype although the vast bulk were straightforwardly representational
      • Some - such every bit Miseon Lee - purpose the realism to demonstrate that they're fabulous at prototype 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 really odd.
      • I'm withal soundless non seeing many amount figure or caput in addition to body paintings.  As I said final year, yous alone guide maintain to await at the portraits inward the galleries inward a higher house to know that yous in all probability acquire extra points for tackling a amount 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 4 of these opted for a 'normal' setting which provided context for the people.  
        • I liked The Roadhouse Crew.  Each figure is painted really merely in addition to yet there's a lot of personality for a bunch of blokes inward dark leather in addition to helmets standing adjacent 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 in addition to every caput is a mini portrait painted from life - hence what nosotros guide maintain hither are multiple portraits.  His painting of Shinjuku - the world's busiest railway station - which handles to a greater extent than than 3.5 1 G one thousand passengers every hateful solar daytime - reflects contemporary life for the masses. It shows a flow of people all moving slow along the platform, many amongst telephone inward mitt amongst the railway lines, other platforms in addition to the offices of corporate Nippon forming a backdrop.  It's a portrait of the people of Tokyo.
      Carl Randall prototype 1 of the portraits of a human being inward the crowd in Shinjuku, Tokyo 
      Excerpted from "Carl Randall - Nippon Portraits" on YouTube

      Shinjuku, Tokyo past times Carl Randall
      1060 x 2330 Oil sheet
      © Carl Randall
      Photo © Katherine Tyrrell

      So what I'd personally similar to run into adjacent twelvemonth are to a greater extent than life size amount figures inward 'normal' contexts.  It would also last prissy to run into a grouping win a prize.

      Viewer's Choice


      I'm non really expert at predicting the Viewer's Choice.  I've non yet voted every bit I e'er similar to run into which portrait I desire to await at again.

      This twelvemonth I scream back 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 inward Stratford, Ontario, Canada.

      It's painted inward Egg Tempera in addition to I'm a large Egg Tempera fan.  It's also 1 medium where I excuse pocket-sized portraits which are express to the caput due to the nature of the prototype using egg tempera.  If you're coming to exhibition yous powerfulness similar to guide maintain a magnifying drinking glass (I had my magnifying spectacles on which are nifty upwards close!).

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

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

      25 years on......


      It was nifty when the contest switched from existence almost portrait painters nether the historic catamenia of twoscore to allowing anybody aged xviii in addition to over to enter

      My feeling is that every bit the sponsorship reaches 25 years inward 2014, at that topographic point needs to last some other momentous pace forward.

      I'm going to encompass my thought inward a dissever postal service shortly - I spill out to scream back it would last nifty for both portraiture at large in addition to the Gallery inward detail in addition to would acquaint a whole novel challenge for portrait artists.

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