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gcse - artist suggestion needed

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Eve · 02/11/2013 10:02

DS needs to find a portrait artist whose style he can research and then copy for a piece of work.

Any suggestions... Our Google searches have been a bit fruitless.

Guidance as to how to search for artists would be helpful as well?

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Abitannoyedatthis · 02/11/2013 12:52

Art lessons don't sound very inspirational Hmm
Look on National Portrait Gallery site - annual BP exhibition - lots of choice. Saatchi gallery has a virtual tour on their website. Tate has a good website too.

NinjaChipmunk · 02/11/2013 12:58

hmm, what about hockney/ freud/bacon? All do some really interesting portraiture? I second looking at the NPG website too.

BOF · 02/11/2013 13:00

Look at Modigliani- a very distinctive style which is easy to pastiche. Interesting artist to research too.

HannahLaRouge · 02/11/2013 13:03

Zinsky is quite different and would be interesting to look at

mignonnette · 02/11/2013 13:07

Klimt. Example Here

Frida Kahlo's self portraits

Cecily Brown

Rhys Lee

Here

Thomas Wilmer Dewing [[
www.pinterest.com/pin/457326537130314107/ Here]] is an example

Komako Sakai Here

Egon Schiele

Alec Goss here

In fact Pinterest is a fantastic source of inspiration full of artists both reknowned and less so. The Frieze art Fair website is worth a look too here.

EBearhug · 02/11/2013 13:12

That sounds a lot more interesting than my GCSE art was.

I too recommend the National Portrait Gallery.

Does it have to be paintings, or could you have a photographer or sculptor?

EBearhug · 02/11/2013 13:12

That sounds a lot more interesting than my GCSE art was.

I too recommend the National Portrait Gallery.

Does it have to be paintings, or could you have a photographer or sculptor?

EBearhug · 02/11/2013 13:13

That sounds a lot more interesting than my GCSE art was.

I too recommend the National Portrait Gallery.

Does it have to be paintings, or could you have a photographer or sculptor?

EBearhug · 02/11/2013 13:15

That sounds a lot more interesting than my GCSE art was.

I too recommend the National Portrait Gallery.

Does it have to be paintings, or could you have a photographer or sculptor?

ancientbuchanan · 02/11/2013 13:23

Agree all the suggestions esp Freud, Hockney Modigliani, but also think

Picasso

And if more traditional
Holbein

Ramsay, great colouring

Lely or Van Dyck

Rembrandt

mignonnette · 02/11/2013 13:29

If photographic portraiture is allowed then have a look at Man Ray and the great Steiglitz photgraphs of Georgia O'Keefe.

tethersend · 03/11/2013 13:34

I'd go for an artist with a particular recognisable technique which will make the production of his own-work-in-the-style-of easier.

Someone like Julian Opie, Chris ofili or Cezanne

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