Friday, January 11, 2013

LA ISLA DEL TESORO: ARTE BRITÁNICO DE HOLBEIN A HOCKNEY


  

 

 

LET´S GO FOR A WALK TO:

 

  

(1) Britain Seen from the North, 1981,Tony Cragg ©Tate

 

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 Destruction and reform (1520 – 1620): Elisabeth painting, gold leaf, rescued religious statues of the brutallity of the reform. Featured artist: Hans Holbein the younger, Marcus Gheeraerts, Nicholas Hilliard and Isaac Oliver.

 

 

(2) Catherine Carey, Countess of Nottingham  (Robert Peake el Viejo, c. 1597)

 

 Revolution and Baroque ( 1620 – 1720): reviews the courtesan painting at the reigns, portraits of the high class leaving aside the solemnity of the previous period. Artists: Anthony van Dyck, Peter Lely, Godfrey Kneller, James Thornhill and Jan Siberechts.

 

 Society and satire (1720-1800): In this section we can observe daily scenes, where the pieces have some irony. There is a special section where you can see illustrations which tell moments of street, explicit, worldly, own of the satirical columns that there are in newspapers nowadays. Great precursors. Artists: Joshua Reynolds, Thomas Gainsborough, Thomas Lawrence, James Gillray and Thomas Rowlandson.

 

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(3) Vauxhall Gardens, Joshua Reynolds

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(4) Drunk Society, Mortimer

 

 Landscapes of the mind (1760-1850): soft, huge, realistic and little accurate landscapes. Styles and elements of a same time intersect in this part of the exhibition. Very different, very intense. Artists: John Constable, George Stubbs, Turner, James Barry, Joseph Wright, William Blake and John Frederick Lewis, David Roberts.

Special detail to the pre-Raphaelite movement, so difficult to detect by dedicating its tendency to something own of previous centuries. Artists: John Everett Millais and William Holman Hunt.

 

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(5) Joshua Commanding the Sun to Stand Still upon Gibeon, 1848 John Martin

 

 Realism and reaction (1850-1900): My favorite section. Brushing the perfection of the photo on occasions, in other ones, small precursors of Impressionism as the delicious work of James Abbott, which I couldn’t avoid to take it on a sheet format to my house. Artists: Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Edward Coley Burne-Jones, Frederic Leighton and sculptures by George Frederic Watts and Alfred Gilbert.

 

Nocturne: Blue and Silver - Cremorne Lights

(6) Nocturne: Blue and Silver – Cremome Lights 1872 James Abbott McNeil Whistler

 

 Modernity and tradition (1900-1940): Breaking with the guidelines by the beggins of the photography, are initiated in the -isms through traditional, war scenes in this case, characteristic of the war in the first half of the XIX century. Artists: Walter Richard Sckert, Henry Lamb or Spencer Gore, Wyndham Lewis, Duncan Grant, David Bomberg, Edward Wadsworth, Paul Nash or Edward Burra, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska and Henry Moore.

 

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(7) Escena de la guerra, Meredith Frampton

 

 A Happy World (1945-1980): Masters of the second half of the 20th century wrapped you in this last space dedicated to a variety of modern movements including Pop art. Artists: Oil paintings by Lucian Freud, R.B. Kitaj or Frank Auerbach, sculptures by Barbara Hepworth, Reg Butler or Anthony Caro. In this final space shine self-portraits of Francis Bacon and L.S. Lowry paintings.

 

 Portrait of Nick Wilder, 1966 - David Hockney

(8) Portrait of Nick Wilder, 1966. David Hockney

 

WHAT COMES TO YOUR MIND?  

 

WRITE ANY IDEAS YOU LIKE IN RELATION TO THESE PAINTINGS OR  TO ANY OTHERS YOU COULD SEE...

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