All posts from: Royal Academy of Arts
Picasso and Paper: virtual exhibition tour
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Experience our Picasso and Paper exhibition from your own home in this video tour of the galleries, created before the Royal Academy had to close its doors due to coronavirus. Picasso didn't just draw on paper — he tore it, burnt it, and made it three-dimensional. From studies for 'Guernica' to a 4.8-metre-wide collage, this exhibition brings together more than 300 works on paper spanning the artist's 80-year career. Installation views of the Picasso and Paper exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts. © Succession Picasso/DACS 2020.
Can anyone draw us a dog in a coat?
— Royal Academy (@royalacademy) April 7, 2020
We've been inspired by these women who made garments out of dog hair while stationed here at the RA during WWI.#RAdailydoodle pic.twitter.com/pGBGI1ch0u
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Some thoughts on painting, by Lucian Freud
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“The painter’s obsession with his subject is all that he needs to drive him to work…” As his self-portraits go on show at the RA, we share Lucian Freud’s only published statement on his creative process. It reveals the uncompromising intensity behind his approach to painting.
The RA Collection in 250 Objects: Dogs
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The RA went for walkies through their Collection and found a pack of misfit mutts, and perfect pooches depicted by artists across the centuries. Here's a selection showing that today’s obsession with cute dog pics has its roots in art history.
Le Mystère Picasso
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Le Mystère Picasso is a remarkable documentary film made in 1956 by French director, Henri-Georges Clouzot, in which stop-action and time-lapse photography are used to capture Picasso at work. Not many of the works he created for the documentary survive – but three hang in our exhibition, Picasso and Paper; two especially restored for the show. Here’s the story of one of them, Visage: Head of a Faun.
LĂ©on Spilliaert
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Léon Spilliaert (1881–1946) was born in the coastal town of Ostend. He moved to Brussels at the age of 20, and would live and work between the two cities for the rest of his life. Self-taught, he forged his own artistic identity, which was shaped by the affinity he felt with writers and thinkers such as Edgar Allan Poe and Friedrich Nietzsche. This exhibition showcases some 80 works on paper – from images of Spilliaert’s home town and the coast, to later works capturing the tranquillity of the forest outside Brussels.
Okay your challenge today is to draw a cheerful apple#RAdailydoodle
— Royal Academy (@royalacademy) March 26, 2020
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Okay your challenge today is to draw a cheerful apple
Who can draw us a good lion?#RADailyDoodle
— Royal Academy (@royalacademy) April 1, 2020
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Who can draw us a good lion?
Please, because it’s Sunday, draw us your favourite flower.#RAdailydoodle
— Royal Academy (@royalacademy) March 29, 2020
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Please, because it’s Sunday, draw us your favourite flower.