London exhibitions Archives - Page 8 of 15

The Real Tudors: Kings and Queens Rediscovered in National Portrait Gallery

Posted on September 18, 2014October 17, 2022 by worldcityguides

The National Portrait Gallery will display The Real Tudors: King and Queens Rediscovered. Visitors will have the chance to rediscover the real Tudor monarchs through a really unique and complete presentation of their portraits.

The exhibition will help to understand the visitors why and how those portraits were made with a recent research commenced as part of the Making Art in Tudor Britain project. At the exhibition visitors will also meet a ‘real’ portrait of Lady Jane Grey from the sixteenth century and they can also explore a commemorative portrait of Jane which is dating back to the Elizabethan period. The monarch includes many kings and queens portraits such as Henry VII which is one of the oldest portraits on display or Elizabeth I who was Henry VIII only surviving child from Anna Boleyn. The exhibition The Real Tudors: Kings and Queens Rediscovered will be the base of a larger exhibition organised in partnership with Réunion des Musées Nationaux – Grand Palais at the Musée du Luxembourg, Paris, in 2015. The exhibition will take place at the National Portrait Gallery in central London. The exhibition will open its gates from 12th September 2014 until 1st March 2015.

Late Turner: Painting Set Free in Tate Britain

Posted on September 3, 2014September 19, 2014 by worldcityguides

The Tate Britain will have a closer look on one of Britain’s most famous painter, on William Turner’s late paintings and art work, the museum is based in Central London near to river Thames.

William Turner was an English romantic landscape painter who was born in 1775 and he died in 1851 in London. The exhibition will focus on his late work and paintings and it shows his art work after he turned 60 years old at the time when his most revered paintings were created. In the paintings we can see how an elderly man was still full of energy and vigour towards life. He had tour around Europe which had a big effect on his work and he was fascinated and inspired by the sea and sky. He had an effect later on the impressionists.

The exhibition has more than 150 paintings from the period of 1835 until 1850 from the UK and from abroad as well. The pictures on display shows inventive new techniques while using new materials.

The exhibition can be seen from 10th September 2014 until next year 25th January 2015.

For more information on Tate Britain, read the linked article.

Sherlock Holmes at the Museum of London

Posted on September 2, 2014September 19, 2014 by worldcityguides

This exhibition will take place at the Museum of London. The museum studies one of the greatest detectives in the whole world. The exhibition allows the visitors to have a look in the brilliant mind of the world wide known investigator which was created by one of the most famous English writers Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

Sherlock Holmes is questionably one of the most famous figures in fiction and the exhibition helps us to find out more about this amusing character. Visitors can analyze the traits that define the detective and to learn more about the character’s life which was born more than 125 years ago.

It seems like Sherlock Holmes became such a strong fictional character that can live and survive through the time and it is re-imagined by generations over and over again, seems that he will be forever stalking, searching and solving the mysteries of England’s streets.

The exhibition can be seen from 17th October 2014 to 12th April 2015. The entrance fee for adults is 12£.

You can read more about the Museum of London here, or if you are a really enthusiastic Sherlock Holmes fan, then you might want to visit the Sherlock Holmes museum as well!

How Germany saw the First World War

Posted on July 29, 2014September 19, 2014 by worldcityguides

The British Museum is one of the most famous museum in London, England. It was founded in 1753 and it was the first national public museum in the whole world. It became really popular from the beginning and the number of visitors have been just growing since that. The museum always has some new exhibitions to offer for those who are interested in historical facts and events.

The other side of the medal, how Germany saw the First World War

This exhibition shows a selection of medals that were made by an artist who lived and worked in Germany between 1914 and 1919 during the First World War. Some of the medals are provocative at times and showing critics against the war and the waste of human life. Many of the other medals were supposed to influence opinion against Germany’s enemies. Numerous artists were reflecting upon on the brutality of the First World War. On these medals Death stalks the battlefield, the sky and sea, hacking down soldiers, sinking ships and making an apocalyptic view on the conflict. The artist were also interested in the psychological effects of the war like people starving as a result of food shortages.

This exhibition is showing the First World War from a new view, the collection of the medals offers a fresh, a new perspective to understand the life and death during the First World War.

The exhibition is open and free for the visitors from 9th May until 23rd November. For more details about the exhibition and the museum check the official site!

Find out how to make colour in the National Gallery!

Posted on July 17, 2014July 17, 2014 by worldcityguides

A very interesting exhibition has been on display in the National Gallery in London since June 18th and it will be there available until September 7th.

In this exhibition you will find more information on what materials have been used and how they have been used throughout history in the process on developing and making colours. The exhibition is available in the Sainsbury Wing every day from 10.00 until 18.00.

Here you can read the official press release on the exhibition:
From lapis lazuli to cobalt blue, to dazzling gold and silver – travel through the story of colour with the National Gallery.

‘Making Colour’, the first exhibition of its kind in the UK, invites you on an artistic and scientific voyage of discovery. From sparkling minerals to crushed insects, learn about the surprising materials used to create pigments and the incredible journeys made by artists in their pursuit of new hues.

Span hundreds of years from the early Renaissance to the Impressionist movement as you take in displays of paintings, mineral specimens, textiles, ceramics and glass.

Journey from lapis lazuli to cobalt blue, ancient vermilion to bright cadmium red, through yellow, orange, purple and verdigris to deep green viridian – in a series of colour-themed rooms. Finally, enter a dazzling central room devoted to gold and silver.

‘Making Colour’ is complemented by an interactive display that introduces a new world of contemporary scientific thought on colour. Designed to demonstrate how we perceive and register colour, the experiment will reveal how the eye and brain respond to colour in unexpected ways.