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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.
13 things to know about Francis Bacon | Royal Academy of Arts
WEBFeb 14, 2022 · 2. He revelled in chaos . Bacon’s Reece Mews studio (since relocated to Dublin) is the manifestation of chaos. By the time he died, his studio floor was feet-deep in thousands of photographs and magazines – a mix of high and low cultural images, historic paintings, scientific drawings and photographs as well as reproductions of his own work – which he described as "compost".
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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 …
David Hockney | Artist | Royal Academy of Arts
WEBDavid 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 ...
The life-drawing class you can take from home - Royal Academy …
WEBFeb 13, 2018 · It's a free online life drawing class you can take from anywhere! Life drawing is the artistic tradition of drawing the human body from a live model – something that the likes of Turner and Constable would have studied at the Royal Academy, and which still takes part in our Life Room today. Life drawing can be an important way for artists to ...