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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.
Exhibitions & Events - Royal Academy of Arts
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.
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.
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 ...
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.
Art and artists | Royal Academy of Arts
WEBOur 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.
Ai Weiwei: 13 works to know | Royal Academy of Arts
WEBSep 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 …
The life-drawing class you can take from home - Royal Academy …
WEBOn 25 January 2018, with From Life, an exhibition about life drawing, on show in our galleries, we broadcast the world's first live-streamed, mass participatory life drawing class, led by renowned artist Jonathan Yeo. Featured on BBC Radio 2for its innovative approach, the class saw artists aged six to 92 – many of whom had never tried life ...
"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 ...
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 …