Portrait

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Embracing the complexity of being human, Ivana Besevic creates digital portraits that don’t glamorize or glorify. She doesn’t shy away from sadness or pain, and she doesn’t smooth over the red splotches and tear streaks on her subjects’ faces. These are real people with real feelings—many of them directly engaging the viewer with an open,...

Wendy Ng: "Painting in the traditional form gives me the opportunity to experiment with the qualities of the paint, the juxtaposition of patterns and

Each year the Archibald Prize attracts some of Australia’s most talented painters, with many artists entering portraits year after year. For Del Kathryn Barton this was her fourth year entering the prestigious competition and the second time one of her portraits has been awarded the Archibald Prize. Barton’s winning portrait, hugo of Australian actor, Hugo Weaving …

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Manny Robertson. Painting of two different portraits, one in black and grey, the other in colour and then stitched together. This would be great to show people's flaws and perfections, using one of the portraits to show physical beauty/perfection/flaws and the other to show the same for personality in a person through facial expressions and extra features (face paint, Photoshop, etc)

Nothing beats seeing these paintings in real life but here's a preview of the prestigious prize's 2015 finalists. See them at the Art Gallery of New South Wales until September 27.

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