Exhibitions & Events - Royal Academy of Arts
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Ai Weiwei: 13 works to know | Royal Academy of Arts
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 ...
13 things to know about Francis Bacon | Royal Academy of Arts
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.
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 ...
William Kentridge's life, art, and studio | Royal Academy of Arts
Published on 1 November 2022. William Kentridge's drawings, animations and installations bear witness to the history of his native South Africa. As his art expands across the Royal Academy’s galleries, take a deep dive into his immersive hand-drawn world. From the Autumn 2022 issue of RA Magazine, issued quarterly to Friends of the RA.
Flaming June - Royal Academy of Arts
Originally exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1895, Flaming June is one of the most important works by Frederic, Lord Leighton PRA (1830–1896). Now, almost 128 years after it was first shown at the RA, Leighton’s masterpiece returns to Piccadilly, on loan from the Museo de Arte de Ponce, Puerto Rico. Flaming June will be displayed alongside ...
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 ...
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.
10 works to know by William Kentridge | Royal Academy of Arts
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 ...
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.