Número del objeto
M.2009.26
Título
Portrait of Vivian Richards
Fecha
2006 - 2006
Creador
Razón de producción
Commissioned as part of the Lord’s Portrait Project (2005 – 2011)
The artist was inspired by the drip (or chance) technique employed by American Abstract Expressionist painter Jackson Pollock. Although Kelly gives the impression of spontaneity through his dynamic paintwork, he actually carefully planned every mark. The result is an incredible likeness of the sitter combined with immediacy.
Painted with a hand-drill and paint brush loaded with paint, this is only the second time the artist painted in this style. The first was a painting of his brother Paul (2005) who had been in a car crash.
Painted in the artist’s London-based studio from photographs. The artist met and photographed the sitter in Antigua. The warm Antiguan light is important to the choice of colour and sense of bounced light in the composition.
Material
Rango
193 x 193cm
Descripción
Head and shoulders, large-scale, frontal portrait of Richards.
Portrait of Vivian Richards, 2006
Brendan Kelly (1970)
Oil on canvas
The massive scale, direct pose and explosion of paint creates a powerful portrait of the former West Indian batsman Vivian Richards, widely known as the "Master Blaster" for his destructive power at the crease.
The dynamic splashes of colour are applied with force and energy by artist Brendon Kelly who described the technique as ‘slamming and whipping the paint over the canvas to echo that “crack” as he hit the ball’.
This was only the second time Kelly had painted in this style. The first was in 2005 for a portrait of his brother Paul who had been in a car crash. The idea of the crash influenced Kelly's broken brushwork which lent itself to the idea of Richards smashing the ball around the ground.
This portrait won the Changing Faces Prize awarded by the Royal Society of Portrait Painters in 2007.
MCC Collection: Commission, 2006
M.2009.26
Documento digital
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