Exhibitions & Events - Royal Academy of Arts
4 days ago · 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
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.
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The life-drawing class you can take from home - Royal Academy …
On 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 ...
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.