I saw the Dr Challoner's High A level exhibition tonight. Its a show I look forward to. The work always has a challenging self regarding intensity. It is engaging and at times moving, as these students at a girls; grammar school gaze unblinkingly and honestly at themselves and their world. This year is unusual. The course encourages individual responses and the department has a really good library of reference books in the department (probably the best that I know of in Bucks). These students also visit major London galleries and usually there will be a variety of different references and influences in the work.
This year it seemed all students were wholly engaged in portraits - large, painterly closely cropped and expressive - often anguished. References were Jenny Saville, Lucien Freud, Maggi Hambling and Egon Schiele. The work was excellent and it was clear that AS students had already fully exploited and mastered the techniques they were exploring. It will be really interesting to see what these students do for the A2 work next year they already have a mature and masterly painting technique. They are already at ease using portraiture and figures to make genuinely expressive pictures - what next?
This year it seemed all students were wholly engaged in portraits - large, painterly closely cropped and expressive - often anguished. References were Jenny Saville, Lucien Freud, Maggi Hambling and Egon Schiele. The work was excellent and it was clear that AS students had already fully exploited and mastered the techniques they were exploring. It will be really interesting to see what these students do for the A2 work next year they already have a mature and masterly painting technique. They are already at ease using portraiture and figures to make genuinely expressive pictures - what next?
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was this done by a student?
Yes a student in Yr 13 (18 yrs old)
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