London Art Studies

Not sure this is what they mean by hot girl summer, but this is our idea of it…

Check out these upcoming exhibitions on women artists, all opening in June 🌺

1. Meret Oppenheim @ Hauser & Wirth, Baser. Opens 4 June.

2. Louise Bourgeois: Drawings from the 1960s @ the Courtauld Gallery, London. Opens 20 June.

3. Jenny Saville: The Anatomy of Painting @ the National Portrait Gallery, London. Open 20 June.

4. Cindy Sherman: The Women @ Hauser & Wirth, Menorca. Opens 23 June.

 

The final A Level History of Art exam is on Monday… good luck to all of you revising 🥊 and don’t forget we’re here to help 💫

 

Best of luck to all those taking their Art History A Level today 📚

 

Sundays in May… 🌳👒

1. Alma Godin (née Broadbridge), ‘Spring in Regent’s Park, London’
2. John Singer Sargent, ‘Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose’, 1885-6
3. Michael Hindorff, ‘Victora Park, London Fields’, 1992
4. Dora Holzhandler, ‘Mother and Child in Holland Park’, 1997
5. Grace Golden, ‘Summer Evening, Embankment Gardens’, 1934
6. Esther Borough Johnson, ‘The Round Pond’, 1934
7. Nancy Carline, ‘Supper on the Terrace’, 1946
8. Henry Tonks, ‘Summer’, 1908
9. George Seurat, ‘A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte’, 1884-6

When you and your bestie have the same idea of the perfect Friday night 💞

🎨 Unknown, Terracotta votive statuette of two draped females, 4th–3rd century BCE.
🎨 Jean Claude Richard, The Two Sisters, 1770.
🎨 Unknown (Japanese, 19th century), Two women with falcons, 19th Century.
🎨 John Raphael Smith, The Weird Sisters (Shakespeare, MacBeth, Act 1, Scene 3), 1785.
🎨 Artist unknown. Three Women at Tea, 1860s.
🎨 José Guadalupe Posada, Demons dancing with women and bats flying through the sky, ca. 1889-1910.
🎨 David Teniers the Younger, Judith with the Head of Holofernes, 1650s.

REPOST 🌟

Happy Birthday to George Braque 🎂

In 1908, the art critic Louis Vauxcelles went to an exhibition in Paris where he saw some of George Braque’s landscape paintings 🖌️ He described them as ‘bizarreries cubiques’ (‘cubist oddities’), coining the term cubism! 🧊

🎨 The Portuguese, 1911
🎨 Bottle and Fishes, 1910-12
🎨 The Candlestick, 1911
🎨 Mandora, 1909-10
📷 George Braque by Ida Kar, 1960

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Chaïm Soutine was one of the leading painters in Paris in the 1920s and 30s 🎨

Between 1919 and 1927, Sountine painted a series of at least 30 portraits of hotel staff — of the people who were invisible in the hubbub of modern city life and existed behind the scenes 🎭

🎨 ‘The Little Pastry Chef’, 1922-23
🎨 ‘The Pastry Chef of Cagnes’, 1922-23
🎨 ‘Bellboy’, 1925
🎨 ‘The Little Pastry Cook’, 1927