Review: Bp Portrait Honor Exhibition 2012 (Part 2)
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This post service most the BP Portrait Award 2012 follows on from my analysis yesterday of what I saw every bit the factors which practise together with practise non influence which plant gets selected for the BP Portrait Award
In Part 2, I desire to comment mostly on plant inward this year's exhibition together with highlight inward detail some of the non-prizewinning plant that I like
First off, to my heed in that place is absolutely no inquiry that the best portrait inward the exhibit won the plough over prize. That said, in that place is yet an awful lot of plough over character portrait icon inward the show.
I highly recommend that anybody seriously contemplating an entry to the BP Portrait Award 2013 should
Here's some of the things I noticed:
Artwork worthy of a closer look
Here are a few of the pantings which kept me looking at them for longer. I'm going to effort together with explicate why.
Iain Cumberland - Today You Were Far Away
I'd select shortlisted Iain Cumberland - every bit he was final yr when he won 3rd prize.
He paints amongst incredible command over the tones together with modulations of the flesh. This self-portrait is also haunting - I kept existence drawn dorsum to it together with wondering whether it represented a break-up or a expiry rather than simply fourth dimension apart from a loved one. I also liked the Holbein-like subdued blueish dark-green background - which plant hence good amongst flesh colours. That said it is a "big head" together with I'd similar to run into a chip to a greater extent than of the private inward his entry side past times side year. Iain is without uncertainty a contender for the plough over prize together with I retrieve he needs to pigment the "as if" a committee for the NPG icon side past times side fourth dimension roughly - to exhibit he can.
If you're inward Dublin during the summertime you lot tin forcefulness out grab to a greater extent than of his operate at the The Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, Dublin 29 May - nineteen August 2012 where he won "The Republic of Ireland – United States of America of America Council & Irish Gaelic Arts Review Portrait Prize" (€5,000).
Carl Randall - Mr Kitazawa's Noodle Bar, Tokyo
I establish 1 icon rattling impressive - together with that's because it portrays a grouping of people together with does that extremely well. Given the lack of other paintings of groups it also stands out from the crowd.
In Tokyo, it's mutual for people to alive together with last inward crowded spaces. When I met Carl Randall he suggested I await at how, despite their proximity, all the people are operating inward their ain chip of space. Nobody actually connects - it's a grouping portrait of urban isolation inward Tokyo, involving a lot of existent people. He's icon the human status every bit good every bit the portraits of a grouping of individuals. What I liked most this icon was it has an authenticity most it. Plus icon inward monochrome emphasises the nature of the relationships to a greater extent than - together with allows us to run into something which nosotros mightiness select missed if we'd been distracted past times also much colour. I wasn't surprised to larn that Carl had lived inward Tokyo for viii years together with that this was his local noodle bar. Painting what you lot know good is ever a expert recipe for success. Apparently each of the heads took Carl most 2-3 hours to paint.
Carl studied at the Slade School Of Fine Art inward London, where he won several awards, including twice winning a prize inward The William Coldstream Painting Competition, a Duveen Travel Scholarship to Italy, together with the £15000 1st prize inward The Singer & Friedlander/Sunday Times Watercolour Competition.
Carl has also won the BP Travel Award for 2012 together with has a first-class proposal for his projection which actually appealed to me. More most this side past times side week.
Benjamin Sullivan - Head Porter
This is the painting. Note the size - it's non big.
This is the human face upward of the Head Porter of All Souls College inward Oxford University. In reality the caput is perchance a pair of inches high - which makes the sensitivity of the colouration together with the icon all the to a greater extent than remarkable. This is non a human being trying to last a miniaturist - it's a human being who's an extremely competent painter together with who tin forcefulness out pigment pocket-sized heads rattling well.
This creative individual is also a favourite of the judges having been selected for the BP Portrait Prize inward 2002, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2011 together with 2012. It tin forcefulness out certainly solely last a affair of fourth dimension earlier he gets shortlisted 1 time again together with perchance wins the plough over prize.
Rupert Alexander - Bob Fahey on Court
I've chosen this for ii reasons. First it's a expert event of a icon which provides a unproblematic context which doesn't fighting amongst the portrait together with yet helps to explicate who this individual is. As presently every bit I saw it I knew this had to last a pretty of import individual inward the basis of existent tennis. It turns out that it's the World Champion Rob Fahey - who's won the World Championship 10 times!
So summation points for me are: somebody who merits a portrait portrayed every bit a total figure inside context - which speaks to all those who know the game. Plus it's painted good - there's a terrific feel of command over the light.
The 2d argue is a rattling long fourth dimension agone I used to sit down together with lookout adult man a friend play existent lawn tennis on Sabbatum mornings together with the perspective together with the lite of the background brought it all dorsum to me inward an instant - it connected amongst me! It seems similar a rattling expert argue to me to pigment people inward context.
Nathalie Beauvillain Scott - Bruised
Entries selected for the exhibition include portraits which tell a even out most the private who is the acre of written report of the portrait. This is 1 such portrait - together with I wishing in that place were more.
What I liked most this portrait was that the items inward the background combine to depict you lot inward to effort together with solve the puzzle. People similar puzzles together with they similar existence asked to utilisation their tidings to operate out what the even out is.
I promise you've enjoyed the paintings I picked out - in that place were a unwrap of others which could select made it into this selectio,
How most you lot - which are YOUR favourite portraits inward the exhibition?
An Index of previous weblog posts most the BP Portrait Award
Here's a repeat of yesterday's listing of past times posts most this fine art contest inward 2012 together with prevous years
BP Portrait Award 2012
BP Portrait Award 2011
BP Portrait Award 2007
In Part 2, I desire to comment mostly on plant inward this year's exhibition together with highlight inward detail some of the non-prizewinning plant that I like
First off, to my heed in that place is absolutely no inquiry that the best portrait inward the exhibit won the plough over prize. That said, in that place is yet an awful lot of plough over character portrait icon inward the show.
I highly recommend that anybody seriously contemplating an entry to the BP Portrait Award 2013 should
- review the various factors which appear to me to influence which portraits (and artists) acquire selected for the exhibition - see my Review: BP Portrait Award Exhibition 2012 (Part 1)
- get themselves to the exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery inward London earlier September to run into the show! Or grab some of the exhibit when it journeys to Edinburgh together with Exeter.
Here's some of the things I noticed:
- Fewer "big heads" - the tendency seems to last going dorsum to "normal" portraiture. However those that were painted are rattling impressive.
- Lots of realism - which agency if you lot desire to become far every bit a painter of realism you lot demand to last rattling expert indeed!
- Fewer "painterly" plant than I'd similar to see
- A lot of smaller works - I'm guessing this mightiness partly last to practise amongst the distances which some plant are at nowadays travelling to last judged for this exhibition - I run into they're at nowadays making the journeying from Australia!
- More monochromatic or close monochromatic plant than usual - including some large works
- Fewer people inward context - I select an an impression of fewer plant amongst an interesting contextual background which helped to tell the even out of the person. I honor this because I similar expert backgrounds which add together to the even out of the individual or straightaway convey a feel of who this individual is.
- More tattoos than hitherto!
- Almost all involved icon simply 1 person.
I liked the hang (which you lot tin forcefulness out run into something of inward my previous post). Having smaller plant punctuate the larger plant helped me run into together with hence to a greater extent than easily.
Artwork worthy of a closer look
Here are a few of the pantings which kept me looking at them for longer. I'm going to effort together with explicate why.
Iain Cumberland - Today You Were Far Away
Today You Were Far Away by Ian Cumberland, 2012 stone oil on canvas, 150 x 100 cm (59" x 39") © Ian Cumberland |
He paints amongst incredible command over the tones together with modulations of the flesh. This self-portrait is also haunting - I kept existence drawn dorsum to it together with wondering whether it represented a break-up or a expiry rather than simply fourth dimension apart from a loved one. I also liked the Holbein-like subdued blueish dark-green background - which plant hence good amongst flesh colours. That said it is a "big head" together with I'd similar to run into a chip to a greater extent than of the private inward his entry side past times side year. Iain is without uncertainty a contender for the plough over prize together with I retrieve he needs to pigment the "as if" a committee for the NPG icon side past times side fourth dimension roughly - to exhibit he can.
If you're inward Dublin during the summertime you lot tin forcefulness out grab to a greater extent than of his operate at the The Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, Dublin 29 May - nineteen August 2012 where he won "The Republic of Ireland – United States of America of America Council & Irish Gaelic Arts Review Portrait Prize" (€5,000).
Carl Randall - Mr Kitazawa's Noodle Bar, Tokyo
Mr Kitazawa's Noodle Bar, Tokyo by Carl Randall, 2012 Oil on canvas, 161.5 x 96.5 cm © Carl Randall |
This grouping portrait is of the artist’s friends together with colleagues inward Tokyo together with was painted from life. Although the noodle store brings people together to eat, Randall says: ‘the fundamental subject is urban isolation – anonymous strangers together but separate.’I'd dearest to run into to a greater extent than portrait icon which involves groups of people. People don't be inward isolation. They shape utilisation of communities. Looking at how people bear inside their social groups tells you lot a lot most them together with their environment.
I establish 1 icon rattling impressive - together with that's because it portrays a grouping of people together with does that extremely well. Given the lack of other paintings of groups it also stands out from the crowd.
In Tokyo, it's mutual for people to alive together with last inward crowded spaces. When I met Carl Randall he suggested I await at how, despite their proximity, all the people are operating inward their ain chip of space. Nobody actually connects - it's a grouping portrait of urban isolation inward Tokyo, involving a lot of existent people. He's icon the human status every bit good every bit the portraits of a grouping of individuals. What I liked most this icon was it has an authenticity most it. Plus icon inward monochrome emphasises the nature of the relationships to a greater extent than - together with allows us to run into something which nosotros mightiness select missed if we'd been distracted past times also much colour. I wasn't surprised to larn that Carl had lived inward Tokyo for viii years together with that this was his local noodle bar. Painting what you lot know good is ever a expert recipe for success. Apparently each of the heads took Carl most 2-3 hours to paint.
Carl studied at the Slade School Of Fine Art inward London, where he won several awards, including twice winning a prize inward The William Coldstream Painting Competition, a Duveen Travel Scholarship to Italy, together with the £15000 1st prize inward The Singer & Friedlander/Sunday Times Watercolour Competition.
Carl has also won the BP Travel Award for 2012 together with has a first-class proposal for his projection which actually appealed to me. More most this side past times side week.
Benjamin Sullivan - Head Porter
This is the painting. Note the size - it's non big.
Head Porter by Benjamin Sullivan, 2012 Oil on canvas 245 x 345 mm (9.6" x 13.6") © Benjamin Sullivan |
Head Porter by Benjamin Sullivan, 2012 © Benjamin Sullivan |
The portrait is an ancillary operate to Sullivan’s grouping portrait of twenty-seven members of staff at All Souls College, Oxford painted every bit utilisation of a residency the creative individual undertook there. Colin Tasker worked every bit Head Porter of the college from 1997 until his retirement final year.I actually similar the way Benjamin Sullivan tin forcefulness out pigment realism inward a painterly way. I also charge per unit of measurement artists who hit portraits every bit a utilisation of a series. The plainness of the background is explained past times the fact that it's utilisation of a serial together with subsidiary to a grouping portrait.
This creative individual is also a favourite of the judges having been selected for the BP Portrait Prize inward 2002, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2011 together with 2012. It tin forcefulness out certainly solely last a affair of fourth dimension earlier he gets shortlisted 1 time again together with perchance wins the plough over prize.
Rupert Alexander - Bob Fahey on Court
Rob Fahey on Court by Rupert Alexander, 2012 © Rupert Alexander |
So summation points for me are: somebody who merits a portrait portrayed every bit a total figure inside context - which speaks to all those who know the game. Plus it's painted good - there's a terrific feel of command over the light.
The 2d argue is a rattling long fourth dimension agone I used to sit down together with lookout adult man a friend play existent lawn tennis on Sabbatum mornings together with the perspective together with the lite of the background brought it all dorsum to me inward an instant - it connected amongst me! It seems similar a rattling expert argue to me to pigment people inward context.
Nathalie Beauvillain Scott - Bruised
Entries selected for the exhibition include portraits which tell a even out most the private who is the acre of written report of the portrait. This is 1 such portrait - together with I wishing in that place were more.
The portrait is of the artist’s teenage son, Olivier, who had latterly been involved inward a machine accident together with was also the acre of written report of a vehement attack. In the background in that place is an paradigm of him every bit a pocket-sized fry together with the machine involved, spell the clock records the fourth dimension of the crash.
Bruised by Nathalie Beauvillain Scott, 2012 Oil on canvas, 610 x 610 mm © Nathalie Beauvillain Scott |
What I liked most this portrait was that the items inward the background combine to depict you lot inward to effort together with solve the puzzle. People similar puzzles together with they similar existence asked to utilisation their tidings to operate out what the even out is.
I promise you've enjoyed the paintings I picked out - in that place were a unwrap of others which could select made it into this selectio,
How most you lot - which are YOUR favourite portraits inward the exhibition?
An Index of previous weblog posts most the BP Portrait Award
Here's a repeat of yesterday's listing of past times posts most this fine art contest inward 2012 together with prevous years
BP Portrait Award 2012
- Call for Entries: BP Portrait Award 2012 xi December 2011 Provides an overview of the procedure together with some tips.
- BP Portrait Award 2012 - The Shortlist - identitifies shortlisted plant together with profiles their artists.
- BP Portrait Award 2012 - 55 Selected Artists includes links to all the artists together with a statistical analysis of the entries past times country
- Aleah Chapin wins £25,000 BP Portrait Award 2012 Lists the prizewinners for 2012.
- Review: BP Portrait Award Exhibition 2012 (Part 1)
- Review: BP Portrait Award Exhibition 2012 (Part 1) Focuses on a theory most what's of import to getting selected
- Review: BP Portrait Award Exhibition 2012 (Part 2) Focuses on overall trends together with portrait paintings I like
- Video of BP Portrait Award Exhibition 2012 a walk roughly the BP Portrait Award Exhibition 2012 at the National Portrait Gallery on 20 June 2012.
- A Profile of Aleah Chapin A profile of together with interview amongst Aleah Chapin - the offset American woman individual creative individual to win the BP Portrait Award - inward June 2012.
see BP Portrait Award 2012 - 55 Selected Artists |
BP Portrait Award 2011
- BP Portrait Award 2011 Shortlist - identifies shortlisted entries together with artists. See if you lot tin forcefulness out justice which operate won earlier reading my review post.
- BP Portrait Award 2011: links to Selected Artists - artists selected for the exhibition inward 2011
- Review: BP Portrait Award Exhibition 2011 - my review of the exhibition (later than usual)
- BP Travel Awards: 2010 (Paul Beel) together with 2011 (Jo Fraser) - data for those interested inward the Travel Award
- BP Portrait Award 2011: People's Favourite & Statistics - this is the post service inward which I analysed final year's entry statistics
- BP Portrait Award 2010 - Shortlist announced)
- BP Portrait Award 2010: List of Exhibitors together with Brian Sewell
- Daphne Todd wins BP Portrait Award 2010
- Two American Artists win BP Portrait Prizes
- BP Portrait Award: Michael Gaskell's unparalled record
- a video of the exhibition run into Video - BP Portrait Exhibition 2010 opens today
- BP Portrait Tour & Portrait of the Nation
- Sue Rubira makes her grade on bp portrait
- Exhibition review: BP Portrait Award
- Peter Monkman wins offset prize inward BP Portrait Award 2009
- BP Portrait Award 2009 - the shortlist
- BP Portrait Award - who enters together with who gets selected
- BP Portrait Award 2009 - Call for Entries
BP Portrait Award 2007
- Making a Mark: Paul Emsley wins BP Portrait Award
- View the BP Portrait Award 2007 together with BP Travel Award 2006 exhibitions
Plus a link to my website most Portraiture - Resources for Artists
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