Exhibitions & Events - Royal Academy of Arts
Michelangelo, Leonardo, Raphael. 9 November 2024 - 16 February 2025. Exhibition. Brasil! Brasil! The Birth of Modernism. 28 January - 21 April 2025.
13 things to know about Francis Bacon | Royal Academy of Arts
Feb 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
Oct 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 ...
Ai Weiwei: 13 works to know | Royal Academy of Arts
Sep 14, 2015 · Ai 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 ...
10 works on grief and loneliness by Tracey Emin and Edvard Munch
Nov 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.
Jasper Johns: 10 works to know | Royal Academy of Arts
Nov 1, 2017 · 4. Painting with Two Balls, 1960 “At once, Johns extinguished speculation about the meaning of individual paintings and directed attention to them as objects among other objects”, wrote the critic Harold Rosenberg. Painting with Two Balls proclaims its own “objectness” by revealing the apparatus of its canvas panels – prized apart by wooden spheres.
Art and artists | Royal Academy of Arts
Our Collection spans 250 years of British art, from Constable and Turner to Hockney and Emin. It now contains about 935 paintings, 350 sculptures, 700 plaster casts, 25,000 prints and drawings and 5,000 historic photographs. Some were acquired as teaching materials for the RA Schools, or simply to inspire the next generation of artists.
A beginner’s guide to Lucian Freud | Royal Academy of Arts
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 intimate and ...
David Hockney | Artist | Royal Academy of Arts
David Hockney studied at Bradford School of Art from 1953 to 1957 and the Royal College of Art from 1959 until 1962. He was awarded the Royal College of Art gold medal in 1962 in recognition of his mastery as a draughtsman and his innovative paintings. His early work was stylistically diverse, combining graffiti-like images with quotations from ...
Eileen Gray: an architect and designer you should know
Published on 2 March 2021. A designer of decorative furniture and Modernist architecture, Eileen Gray found recognition aged 94. Here's our guide to the life of this overlooked master, and her infamous seaside villa, E-1027. It's a story as old as art history – a woman, ingenious and indefatigable, produces groundbreaking work while eluding ...