Exhibitions & Events - Royal Academy of Arts
2024年11月9日 — 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
2022年2月14日 — 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 …
10 works on grief and loneliness by Tracey Emin and Edvard Munch
2020年11月20日 — 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.
Video: attitudes to nudity in art | Royal Academy of Arts
2023年12月14日 — Video: attitudes to nudity in art. Published on 14 December 2023. Watch Marina Abramović discuss her performance 'Imponderabillia' first performed over 40 years ago.
Strike a pose: 250 years of life drawing at the RA
2018年2月6日 — Charles West Cope RA’s depiction of a life class taking place at the Royal Academy in 1865 is an evocative image that seems to sum up the conventions of traditional academic training.The young, exclusively male, art students sit at their easels in a semicircular formation, facing a nude male model who strikes a heroic pose on a dramatically lit platform.
Flaming June - Royal Academy of Arts
2024年2月17日 — 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.
Ai Weiwei: 13 works to know | Royal Academy of Arts
Ai Weiwei: 13 works to know. By Harriet Baker. Published on 14 September 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 …
A beginner’s guide to Lucian Freud | Royal Academy of Arts
2019年10月21日 — He painted more than 160 people...including Queen Elizabeth, though she remained fully clothed.She joined Freud’s motley crew of performance artists, members of the criminal underworld, Lord Rothschild, a restauranteur, Kate Moss, a jobcentre manager, duchesses, drag queens, some of his 14 children, his mum, and himself.He worked on three or four portraits at once, with each subject painted ...
William Kentridge's life, art, and studio | Royal Academy of Arts
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.
Marina Abramović - Royal Academy of Arts
Marina Abramović Hon RA has earned worldwide acclaim as a performance artist. She has consistently tested the limits of her own physical and mental endurance in her work, subjecting herself to exhaustion, pain and even the possibility of death.