ART: MUSEUMS: PAINTING: SCULPTURE: COMPETITION: National Portrait Gallery

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ART:  MUSEUMS:  PAINTING:  SCULPTURE: 
COMPETITION:  National Portrait Gallery


National Portrait Gallery Competition
http://www.portraitcompetition.si.edu/index.html

FACE IT. PORTRAITURE IS BACK.

Since the beginning of time, artists have expressed
their thoughts, feelings, hopes, and ideals by
depicting something we all possess—the human
form. Cavemen did it. Rembrandt did it. Andy Warhol
did it. Now the Smithsonian’s National Portrait
Gallery is inviting artists all over America to do it.

The Gallery is welcoming portraiture into the 21st
century with its first-ever Outwin Boochever Portrait
Competition 2006. Named for Virginia Outwin Boochever,
a former NPG volunteer whose generous gift endowed
this program, the inaugural competition and resulting
exhibition will focus on innovation and excellence in
portrait painting and sculpture.

Painting and sculpture are two of the most traditional
media employed by artists. During the last few
decades of the 20th century, artists such as Lucien
Freud, Duane Hanson, Alice Neel, Chuck Close,
Philip Pearlstein, and Alex Katz—all made innovative
and compelling portraits—were few in number.

Recently, however, many of today’s emerging artists
are using portraiture or self-portraiture to explore
complex issues of identity. At the same time, those
artists are also testing the boundaries of the genre of
figurative art. Others are finding success through a
renewed attention to classical training in representational
art. Artists who regularly create portraits on commission
are also experiencing a higher level of interest in their
work. In short, portraiture has become the rising star
of contemporary art.


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People’s Choice Award
Portrait of an Artist
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You must be living and working in the United States
to be eligible to enter this competition.


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