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WEBDiscover artworks, explore venues and meet artists. Art UK is the online home for every public collection in the UK. Featuring over 300,000 artworks by over 50,000 artists.
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WEBSofonisba Anguissola (c.1535–1625) Rasheed Araeen (b.1935) Jean Arp (1886–1966) Clare Atwood (1866–1962) View all 400. View all. Discover artworks, explore venues and meet artists. Art UK is the online home for every public collection in the UK. Featuring over 300,000 artworks by over 50,000 artists.
Scandalous nudes: what's all the fuss about? | Art UK
WEBAug 12, 2021 — Nude 1927. George Spencer Watson (1869–1934) Harris Museum, Art Gallery & Library. It was the first painting in the collection of The Harris in Preston to feature a naked woman. As such, it was controversial, and some Councillors thought it would corrupt the morals of Prestonians. History has not …
Changing shapes: the art of Metamorphosis | Art UK
WEBPosted 25 Feb 2021, by Helen Cobby. The term 'metamorphosis' is elusive and multi-layered. Biologically it signifies a complete change of physical form, though it also describes a change by supernatural means and can relate to the inner psychological transformations of being and identity. Apollo and Daphne probably 1470-80.
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WEBArt UK is the online home for every public art collection in the United Kingdom. We are an art education charity and we democratise access to art. Our website brings together art from over 3,400 British institutions in one of the UK's biggest ever arts partnerships. It shows over 300,000 works by over 50,000 artists and is growing all the time.
Cleopatra's legacy in art: famous pharaoh and femme fatale
WEBMar 26, 2020 — Queen Cleopatra VII is remembered as history's temptress, a queen adept in the art of seduction – the ultimate femme fatale. But her story isn't so simple. Cleopatra's destiny as the ruler of Egypt expected much of her, and she faithfully obliged. Born in Alexandria, Egypt in 69 BC, Cleopatra hailed from the Greek-speaking Ptolemaic dynasty (named after Alexander the Great's general Ptolemy ...
Glasgow Style | Art UK
WEBThe Glasgow Style is the highly distinctive form of Art Nouveau developed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh and his circle in Glasgow in the 1890s. His group included his wife Margaret MacDonald Mackintosh, Herbert MacNair and Frances MacDonald. They drew inspiration from Continental Art Nouveau, the Celtic Revival and …
Sapphic sexuality: lesbian myth and reality in art and sculpture
WEBJul 27, 2020 — Anne Seymour Damer (1748–1828) was an English sculptor, traveller and actress who regularly exhibited at the Royal Academy at the turn of the nineteenth century. Damer moved in aristocratic circles and was a close friend of the prominent writer and Whig politician Horace Walpole. Anne Seymour Damer (née Conway) 1773.
Turner, Joseph Mallord William, 1775–1851 | Art UK
WEBJoseph Mallord William Turner (1775–1851) The National Gallery, London. Joseph Mallord William Turner, known as J. M. W. Turner (Born London, 23 April 1775; died Chelsea, Middlesex [now in London], 19 December 1851). English painter, one of the greatest figures in the history of landscape painting. His family called him Bill or William, but ...
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