BP National Portrait Award 2010
This weekend I went to see the BP Portrait Award Exhibition, I went to this because I envy artists, as a photographer I can only create things which are physically possible to make, but artists have the advantage of being able to create anything that their imagination and equipment allows them to. As someone who cannot draw very well I admire those who can paint and draw things to a realistic extent, some of the portraits featured in this exhibition showed artists with an amazing amount of skill, with some portraits looking as realistic as photographs – it is almost impossible to see the brush strokes. I was in awe of the talent that was presented in this exhibition and the amount of skill some of the artists showed.
Although some of the work captured you in a lock of amazement, there was some work which left me baffled as to why it was present in the exhibition. I also disagreed with the judges choice of winners, I thought of the artists that did not win deserved the prize more than the winners. But I do recommend the exhibition to everyone, there is a very talented group of people in the exhibition.
