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      • About usAll about CBP, membership, our history, and how we operate.
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  • Features
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      • Critical TextsEssays and critical texts about painting.
      • Painting of the DayHow to send in your work for consideration for POTD.
      • Painter to PainterPainters in conversation.
      • PodcastsSomething to listen to in the studio.
      • VideoOnline interviews and video diaries.
      • PublicationsCatalogues available to buy and for free download.
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      • ApplyEverything you need to know to apply for the Contemporary British Painting Prize.
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Teachers’ Resource: Becoming Picasso

Matthew Krishanu reflects on three approaches to painting figuratively: from life; from photographs; and from memory / imagination in the essay ‘Painting the Figure – a Contemporary Practice Perspective’ as part of a new publication by the Courtauld for their current Picasso show ‘Becoming Picasso, Paris 1901’.

Heres’ the downloadable pdf resource (file size approximately 3Mb).

Matthew Krishanu, Two Boys

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