Summer Exhibition 2025 - Royal Academy of Arts
Held every year without interruption since 1769, the Summer Exhibition showcases a diverse array of contemporary works, including prints, paintings, films, photography, sculpture, and architectural works.
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Feb 6, 2010 · 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
Feb 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 …
Start here: Florence c. 1504 - Royal Academy of Arts
Three artists in Florence . At the turn of the 16th century, three titans of the Italian Renaissance were in Florence at the same time. Michelangelo had completed his iconic, David; Leonardo had recently returned to his native Florence and was working on a portrait of Lisa del Giocondo, better known as the Mona Lisa; and Raphael, in his early twenties and hungry for success, came to …
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 ...
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Start here: Michael Craig-Martin | Royal Academy of Arts
Finding objects. After the minimalism of An Oak Tree Craig-Martin began looking for new directions to take his work. He continued to experiment with readymade objects, producing a series of works made using closed Venetian blinds and he made simplified drawings of everyday objects using neon lights.
William Kentridge's life, art, and studio | Royal Academy of Arts
Nov 1, 2022 · Soho Eckstein is a beneficiary of this history. His provenance as a character is complex. Eckstein was gestated in drawings Kentridge made in the 1970s and 80s for theatre and trade union posters, as well as the Hogarth-inspired print suite Industry & Idleness (1986). “He was absolutely the industrialist taking over Johannesburg”, said Kentridge of Eckstein’s introduction in 1989.
A History of Performance Art | Royal Academy of Arts
Oct 15, 2023 · 1951 Pollock’s painting performance. In 1951, German photographer Hans Namuth, after spending months capturing images of Jackson Pollock, became dissatisfied with the still snapshots he’d taken of the famous dripper of paint.Determined to chronicle Pollock’s mesmerising movements, Namuth swapped the artist’s canvas for a sheet of clear glass with a camera fixed beneath.
A brief history of the RA - Royal Academy of Arts
A company of artists . On a winter’s day in 1768, architect Sir William Chambers visited the king, George III. He brought with him a petition signed by 36 artists and architects including himself, all of whom were seeking permission to "establish a society for promoting the Arts of Design".