Below are a number of academic studies made in Florence Italy.
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Threadneedle Prize 2009
Louis Smith was one of seven artists shortlisted for the Threadneedle Prize in 2009. Louis’s inspiration for this painting was a painting by Caravaggio the “Crucifixion of St Peter. He used the theme to explore issues dealing with the discrimination.......
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Louis Smiths portrait of George was chosen from a record entry of over 1,900 artists, that year’s exhibition presented fifty-six selected portraits.
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You can look at a portrait hundreds of years old and you can still feel the presence of that person looking out at you. Not every painter can achieve this illusion. We live in an age where art materials have never been so readily available yet artists lack the skills to use them, Louis Smith strives in a life long journey to attain the skills to capture perfectly the sitters personality as the great masters Velásquez and Sargent once did.
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Excellent work – just sublime.