Art museums and galleries in London

This remarkable sculpture of the Greek hero Herakles is one of J. Paul Getty’s most prized possessions and inspired him to build this Museum in the style of an ancient Roman villa. The statue, representing the Greek hero Herakles with his lion skin and club, was discovered in 1790 near the villa of the Roman Emperor Hadrian (ruled A.D. 117-138) at Tivoli, Italy, It was purchased in 1792 by an English collector, the Marquess of Lansdowne, to become part of his extensive private collection of…

Designer Devan Kaufman said it best when he declared, “Frank Lloyd Wright houses have always just made sense.” Wright had a way of creating floor plans that was so novice and incredible that anyone of the twentieth century and now could tell that he was the architect of a house just by looking at it. His work was so amazing because of how contemporary and intelligent it was. Wright knew how to do certain things like creating pillars to be soundproof so that you couldn’t hear a busy road just…

editorial cartoonist for The Sunday Times and an illustrator for The New Yorker. His work includes graphics from Pink Floyd’s The Wall and Hercules. He is married to Jane Asher and they three children together. After a short period at the Royal College of Arts, he established himself as a satirical cartoonist and still does satirical cartoons today. Even though he his most known for his animations for Hercules, his work for Pink Floyd and Roger Waters is incredible. Roger Waters (bassist for…

When studying art through the ages, a person will begin to notice certain similarities and difference that come to light during different ages. Frequently, it can be seen that one work of art could not have come into being without their predecessor works. The two works of art that I will be discussing are The Fighting Temeraire by J.M.W. Turner [Fig 1] and The Manneporte near Étretat by Claude Monet [Fig 2]. To begin, The Fighting Temeraire is an oil on canvas painting, measuring 90.7 x 121.6 cm…

time and, to some people, the most variously talented person to have lived. His most famous paintings, Mona Lisa and The Last Supper, are still admired today on display. Mona Lisa/La Gioconda (painted between 1503 and 1506) has been fascinating art lovers and admirers all over the world due to the fact that the identity of the woman the portrait is of unknown and because of her cryptic facial expression. The…

of Vincent van Gogh has produced more than 2,100 art works. He was a very talented artist that is known in this day and age. One of his first pieces was “The Potato Eaters”. Many more of his art included oil paintings, water colors, drawings, sketches and prints. He helped develop art in a completely new way at such a young age, which has helped his art become prominent. At the age 27 Van Gogh infiltrated Academie Royal des Beaux—Arts in Brussels, Belgium. He fell in love with a…

in Bristol, England on June 6 of 1965, unique art pieces like “The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living” (1991) and “With Dead Head”(1991), provoked controversy in the artistic audience(theartstory.org). It is through his unique art pieces that the overlooked concept of death is illustrated, making the audience reflect on their own lives. The creation of rather irregular artworks emerged from his interest in punk music, pop art, and installations as a teen. As a teen,…

Part 1: Dallas Museum of Art “Power Play” 1. Spiritual. Mesoamerican peoples (artist unknown). Dog with human mask. Late Formative period, c. 100 B.C.E – C.E. 200. Ceramic. Dallas Museum of Art. Hollowed ceramic statue depicting a hairless dog wearing a mask. Gifted to the DMA by the Eugene McDermott Foundation and the Meadows Foundation, Incorporated. The dog is thought to be a tepescuintli, which was raised for food in Mesoamerica. Dogs are known to be used for spiritual reasons in the state…

He would suffer from “attacks” that would leave him confused (Van Gogh Museum). After several such incidents throughout 1888, he checked himself into an asylum at St. Rémy, in France, in May 1889. At first, he painted in and around the hospital but eventually moved to painting in the countryside. It was there that van Gogh…

with colour theory, Pointillism is more focused on the specific style of brushwork used to apply the paint. The term "Post-Impressionism" was invented by the English painter and critic Roger Fry as he prepared for an exhibition at the Grafton Gallery in London in 1910. The show, held November 8, 1910–January 15, 1911) was called "Manet and the Post-Impressionists," a canny marketing ploy which paired a brand name (Édouard Manet)…