Royal Ontario Museum (7 kníh )

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  David Anfam, Susan Davidson Abstract Expressionism

  In 1946 the art critic Robert Coates, writing in the New Yorker, first used the term 'Abstract Expressionism'. The two words combine the emotional intensity of the German Expressionists with the anti-figurative aesthetic of the ...

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  Gonzalo Herrero Delicado, Rose Thompson Eco-Visionaries

  In autumn 2019, the Royal Academy of Arts is organising 'Eco-Visionaries: Confronting a Planet in a State of Emergency', an exhibition that will examine how contemporary practices of art and architecture are responding to current global ...

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  Alan Donnithorne Leonardo da Vinci

  Leonardo da Vinci’s drawings are among the most accomplished and technically varied ever made. Detailed study of those in the Royal Collection – the finest group in existence – reveals much about his materials and techniques and his innovative ...

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  David Dawson, Joseph Leo Koerner, Jasper Sharp, Sebastian Smee Lucian Freud

  In 1964 Lucian Freud set his students at the Norwich College of Art an assignment: to paint naked self-portraits and to make them 'revealing, telling, believable... really shameless'. It was advice that the artist was often to follow himself...

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  Kate Heard Maria Merian's Butterflies EN

  In 1699, the German artist and entomologist Maria Sibylla Merian set sail for Suriname, in South America. There she would spend two years studying the animals and plants which she encountered, aiming to explore the life-cycle of insects (the only partially understood). Those studies led to the publication of the Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium (The Metamorphosis of the Insects of Suriname), a luxury volume,…

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  Natalia Murray Revolution EN

  Explores the extraordinary flowering of the arts during the first 15 years of the Soviet state up until Stalin's brutal suppression of the avant-garde in 1932 Published to coincide with the centenary of the 1917 October Revolution. Accompanies the Royal Academy show based on the landmark Russian exhibition of 1932, running from February 11th until April 17th in the Academy's Main Galleries. This far-ranging…

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  John MacDonald The Arctic Sky EN

  An exploration of the arctic sky — its constellations, legends and mythology, the sun, moon, planets, and 'shooting stars, ' as well as atmospheric phenomena such as aurora borealis. Combining interviews with the Inuit elders and the historical records of arctic explorers and other keen observers, The Arctic Sky is a guided tour of the arctic universe.