By Tania Rivilis, 2022
The William Lock Portrait Prize 2022 for the most timeless portrait with a real feeling for paint and its aesthetic potential (Royal Portrait Society, London UK) original oil painting on pressed wood panel 80 x 80 cmI reinterpreted Frantisek Kupka’s self portrait which is painted with absolutely magical vibrant yellow tones. In my expressive style I use gradients, connections, voids, and tense colour fields. In this painted I also wanted to depict Kupka’s love for Orphism (a branch of cubism wh…