Young Bomberg and the Old Masters in Room 1 of The National Gallery, along side Gauguin Portraits and Leonardo: Experience a Masterpiece, completes the Autumn programme for the gallery in 2019. David Bomberg might not seem a natural subject for an exhibition by the National Gallery, in deed not a single piece by him in…
Category: Exhibitions
Leonardo: Experience a Masterpiece
Sadly this, with the exception on only two parts of this exhibition it is a waste of time. Multiple rooms that are mostly empty space with a few words on the walls and digital images or light boxes to interact with and that is it. With no clear direction you run the risk of missing…
Gauguin Portraits
The one thing everyone knows about Gauguin and his work, is that he made a number of trips to Tahiti where he produced some of the most beautiful paintings of the day, representing the people of the islands with great care and love. That his love for some of the women of the islands was…
Bartolome Bermejo: Master of the Spanish Renaissance
As Sorolla comes to an end at the National Gallery, Room 1 continues the Spanish theme with its free exhibition’ Bartolome Bermejo: Master of the Spanish Renaissance. Such few works by this early renaissance master exist, to the extent that when the National Gallery acquired Saint Michael triumphant over the Devil with the Donor Antoni…
Van Gogh and Britain ★★★★
Every few years Tate Britain finds a way to link an , or group of Impressionist painters, to Britain as an excuse to hold an exhibition of Impressionist work. Why? Because, such is the popularity of the Impressionists, that it all but guarantees a sell out show and the sale of tons of merchandise, thus…
Sorolla at the National Gallery ★★★★★
Sorolla – Spanish Master of Light, is the spring’s major exhibition at the National Gallery and the first in a series of Spanish themed exhibitions. Not so well known in the UK today (only one of his major works is in a UK public gallery, the National Portrait Gallery), this is the first exhibition of…