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Thomasin, obviously there has been a trend in the past couple of years toward photorealism and even last year I found the selection quite disppointing.
Up to last year it was specified on the rules of the competition that the portrait had to be painted from life...
There was an article recently by one of the judges. She admitted that the shortlisted pieces were maybe not the best, and that they all looked quite similar.
She blamed the selection process: when examining almost 2000 entries the big faces are what strikes more, and there is not much time to look carefully at each work submitted.
If this is where the british portraiture is heading I am not going !
Ilaria
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