Monday, 14 May 2007

NPG 20th C. Re-hang

Bryan Organ - Prince Charles (1980) © National Portrait Gallery, LondonThe National Portrait Gallery, London, has re-hung its late 20th Century display to give prominence to artists, rather than to their famous sitters. To read about Artists and Sitters, New Display of the Collection: 1960-90, click the title link. If the example shown - a young Prince Charles - is anything to go by, the art of portraiture died in the 20th Century. The likeness may be excellent (my enlargement to the right), but have you ever seen a more boring, badly composed painting? Is this how Bryan Organ "sees" Prince Charles, as a boring square trapped in a boring square world? Okay, I'm no royalist, but don't inflict the boredom on me.

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