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Tag: Tate Britain

Lynette Yiadom-Boakye: Fly in League with the Night at Tate Britain

4th February 20214th February 2021  Toni Roberts

Before the second lockdown Toni Roberts saw Lynette Yiadom-Boakye’s show Fly in League with the Night at Tate Britain. Here, she recalls vibrant paintings alive with stories, brilliant studies of people, and human relationships that transcend the canvas’ edges.

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Posted in Art and design, ArtsTagged: Andrea Schlieker, art, Cézanne, Fly in League with the Night, Francisco de Goya, Isabella Maidment, John Singer Sargent, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, Manet, painting, portraits, portraiture, Tate, Tate Britain, Walter Sickert

Steve McQueen’s Year 3 at Tate Britain

8th December 2020  Shamini Sriskandarajah

Artist and filmmaker Steve McQueen’s epic Year 3 project brings together more than 3000 class portraits from over 1500 primary schools to commemorate a most formative time in a child’s educational life. The result, says our writer Shamini Sriskandarajah, is at once illuminating and moving.

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Posted in Art and design, ArtsTagged: Childhood, children, Duveen Galleries, dyslexia, filmmaker, learning difficulties, London, Maria Balshaw, Photography, portraits, Primary schools, Small Axe, Steve McQueen, Tate, Tate Britain, Year 3

Ophelia Redux

10th November 202010th November 2020  Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou

Millais’ painting, Ophelia, continues to inspire viewers and critics alike, but what if the heroine came back from the watery grave she was condemned to? Here, Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou considers the return of Ophelia in the artwork of Jada Bruney and Rolake Osabia, and the music visuals of Christine and the Queens.

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Posted in Art and design, Arts, Arts Essays, Creative Writing, Non-FictionTagged: Chris, Christine and the Queens, Griselda Pollock, Jada Bruney, Jaqueline Rose, John Everett Millais, Millais, music video, Nathaniel Telemaque, Ophelia, painting, Photography, Pre-Raphaelites, Pre-Raphealitism, Rolake Osabia, Tate, Tate Britain, Tate Collective, The Ophelia Letters

Aubrey Beardsley at Tate Britain

14th September 202015th September 2020  Christina Makri

The eccentric, grotesque and awe-inspiring legacy of Aubrey Beardsley is celebrated in Tate Britain’s largest exhibition of his drawings in 50 years.

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Posted in Art and design, ArtsTagged: Aestheticism, Art Nouveau, Aubrey Beardsley, Decadence, Edward Burne-Jones, Oscar Wilde, Pre-Raphaelites, Tate Britain, The Yellow Book, Victorian Art, Victorian Literature

Tracing the ‘bounding line’: William Blake at Tate Britain

13th February 20206th December 2020  Shamini Sriskandarajah

Dismissed in his lifetime as mad, William Blake is now lauded as a visionary genius, one whose art and poetry have influenced many generations of creatives. Shamini Sriskandarajah visits Tate Britain’s recent retrospective to find out why.

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Posted in Art and design, ArtsTagged: art, drawing, eighteenth-century, engraving, Mythology, Tate, Tate Britain, William Blake

The EY Exhibition: Van Gogh and Britain at Tate Britain

16th June 201916th June 2019  Jo Hemmings

Tate’s latest exhibition, Van Gogh and Britain, reveals the extent to which the artist was inspired by British culture and in turn, influenced it. In her review, Jo Hemmings asks why we’re still captivated by Van Gogh and his work.

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Posted in Art and design, ArtsTagged: At Eternity's Gate, Charles Dickens, London, Loving Vincent, painting, Starry Night, Sunflowers, Tate, Tate Britain, Van Gogh, Vincent van Gogh, Virginia Woolf

Edward Burne-Jones at Tate Britain

24th January 201924th January 2019  Miriam Al Jamil

Greek myths and Arthurian legends are colourfully brought to life in Tate Britain’s latest exhibition, Edward Burne-Jones.

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Posted in Art and design, ArtsTagged: Brothers Grimm, Circe, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Edward Burne-Jones, Legend, Mantegna and Bellini, Medieval Revival, Myth, Pre-Raphaelites, Romances, Sleeping beauty, Tate, Tate Britain, The Briar Rose, The National Gallery, The Wine of Circe, Victorian Art, William Morris
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