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WEBFriday night life drawing: Renaissance figures. 15 November 2024. Event sold out. The Royal Academy of Arts, located in the heart of London, is a place where art is made, exhibited and debated.
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WEBThe Royal Academy of Arts, located in the heart of London, is a place where art is made, exhibited and debated.
13 things to know about Francis Bacon | Royal Academy of Arts
WEBFeb 14, 2022 · 4. He was allergic to animals. Bacon was fascinated by animals (over his career he painted monkeys, baboons, chimpanzees, dogs, owls, bulls, elephants, rhinos) but he was effectively allergic to most of them. Dogs and horses were a trigger for his asthma and although he painted dogs, horses are notably absent in his work.
10 works to know by William Kentridge | Royal Academy of Arts
WEBOct 17, 2022 · 4. Black Box / Chambre Noire . Set inside a miniature wooden theatre run by motors and wheels – something between a puppet show and a mechanical theatre – Black Box / Chambre Noire solidified Kentridge’s interest in entwining opera, art, theatre and film within immersive, ambitious productions. The work examines Germany’s colonial force and genocide in South West Africa (now Namibia ...
10 works on grief and loneliness by Tracey Emin and Edvard Munch
WEBNov 20, 2020 · How to revisit a work. Emin created I am The Last of my Kind in 2019 whilst preparing for the RA exhibition The Loneliness of the Soul.Built up in pale pink and bluish hues, this almost sketch-like painting portrays a naked female figure – arms hanging limply and head looking downwards, avoiding the gaze of the viewer.
David Hockney: The Arrival of Spring, Normandy, 2020
WEB11 August - 26 September 2021. The Gabrielle Jungels-Winkler Galleries, Burlington Gardens, Royal Academy of Arts. In the midst of a pandemic, David Hockney RA captured the unfolding of spring on his iPad, creating 116 new and optimistic works in praise of the natural world. • We have prioritised access for Friends and supporters but cannot ...
Ai Weiwei: 13 works to know | Royal Academy of Arts
WEBAi Weiwei has worked in everything from paint to readymades. As our landmark exhibition examines work from 1993 up to the present day, we take a look at some of the key works to know from across Ai's career. In Ai Weiwei’s work, there is no division between art and politics. Throughout his career, the artist has never shied away from ...
A beginner’s guide to Lucian Freud | Royal Academy of Arts
WEBOct 21, 2019 · He is one of art’s most influential portraitists. Lucian Freud (1922–2011) changed how we look at people. He filled his canvases with bodies rarely given space elsewhere: fat bodies, ageing bodies, queer bodies, exhausted bodies. Some have described his portraits as ruthless, pitiless, clinical and cruel; others see them as …
"I only do something if I’m afraid of it, because that’s the whole ...
WEBAug 24, 2023 · Abramović’s practice commits to taking up space, to placing her body in galleries and rooms and eschewing privacy and comfort: in the raised rooms of The House With The Ocean View (2002) – which will be reperformed in the RA exhibition – where she lived for 12 days and the ladders offering escape had knives for steps; in the airless heat of a Venetian basement scrubbing animal bones and ...
Jasper Johns: 10 works to know | Royal Academy of Arts
WEBPublished on 1 November 2017. Over the past six decades, Jasper Johns’s paintings, sculptures, drawings and prints have left an indelible mark on art. With the RA showing a major survey of his practice to date, here’s a closer look at ten of his key works. Jasper Johns - Flag, 1958 More. Encaustic on canvas. 104.4 x 153.7 cm.