Monday, 6 January 2014

London M.A. Uni trip 5.11.2013 (pt 1)


The Portrait Gallery, London


This was the first place I went to their were many Exhibitions but not all was available to photograph. 


By Alessandro Raho


I like this image because it shows Dame Judi Dench as a "down to Earth" character  and it is how I imagine her to be in real life! I have never met her but I have seen her acting in many roles where she has always played the straight comedienne delivering the laughter lines. The image above seems to highlight this ability of hers to be both ordinary and charismatic at the same time. I like the way that he has taken her into the studio and taken her out of the actor's comfort zone of having props to help her create a character. She is standing in a quite open stance but possibly a softened pose with one leg behind the other - if she had been standing with both legs equally distant from the painter she might have appeared totally different! Possibly a little uncomfortable? Her clothes are quite casual compared with some of the stage costumes she has worn - such as when she was M in 007 and Queen Victoria in Mrs Brown. To me she is being shown in a plain, realistic interpretation of how she actually is - possibly Judy "in the raw"?


Norman Foster 
By John Davies 





Michael G. Wilson on Sky fall movie set
By Anderson & Low






David Stephan Mach 
By Iain Clark





Stephen Conroy
Self portrait






Camila Batmanghelidjh
By Dean Marsh 








Jonathan Yea Portraits
















Robert Lowe, 1st Viscount Sherbrooke 
By Carlo Pellegrini




The Lobby of the house of commons,1886
By Liberio Prosperi






Albert Ball
By Henry Poole




French Master Chefs In the 1930s









stars with Vivien Leigh 




Emmeline Pankhurst 
By Georgina Brackenbury





Statue of the Amitabha Budha















These busts were in the gift shop I particually liked the Charles Dickens and Brunele




The British Museum 




'Rama with the axe'
18th 19th century AD












Seated Buddha 
From late 5th centuary





Rearing horse and warrior
17th century AD 









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