This exhibition brings together a network of artists inspired by scientific ideas and technologies. It tells a series of loosely connected stories about the early innovators of electronic art, from ...
While I was working on my photographic series Work Stations 1987–8, which attempted to capture the essence of office life in Margaret Thatcher’s Britain, I came across paintball for the first time.
Miss Alice Gostick was a teacher at Castleford Secondary School, which Moore attended between the ages of eleven and eighteen. A member of the Art Teachers’ Guild, Miss Gostick advocated a progressive ...
In 1886 the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche declared the sublime out of date. A number of artists of early and mid-twentieth century continued to engage with concepts of the sublime, though often in ...
This is one of four reports produced by researchers in the project Reshaping the Collectible: When Artworks Live in the Museum. Each offers a perspective from one of four practices that are changing ...
Contemporary artists have extended the vocabulary of the sublime by looking back to earlier traditions and by engaging with aspects of modern society. They have located the sublime in not only the ...
Two of Britain’s greatest painters, J.M.W. Turner and John Constable were also the greatest of rivals. Born within a year of each other – Turner in 1775, Constable in 1776 – they used landscape art as ...
Suspended, collapsed, stacked, wrapped or folded, the works of Phyllida Barlow spring from an interrogation of some of the most fundamental aspects of sculpture: its physical attributes and its ...
The Camden Town Group was composed of sixteen artists, judged by an inner core to be ‘the best and the most promising of the day’. Controversially, women were not allowed to join, though they formed ...
Unlock Tate Modern’s history and architectural secrets in our Architecture Tour Since Tate Modern first opened in 2000, it has become a London landmark, not just for the art it houses, but also for ...
Ibrahim El-Salahi is a Sudanese artist who was born in 1930 in Omdurman, Sudan. He currently lives and works in Oxford, England. He combines painting and drawing often using motifs from African, Arab ...
Fig.2 John Constable The Cornfield 1826 National Gallery, London Born into a prosperous family in the village of East Bergholt, Suffolk, Constable’s early display of aptitude and passion for painting ...