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WEBTate is a family of art galleries in London, Liverpool and Cornwall, known as Tate Modern, Tate Britain, Tate St Ives and Tate Liverpool + RIBA North. Tate art museum houses the UK's collection of British art from 1500 and of international modern art
Baroque | Tate
WEBBaroque. Baroque was the dominant style in art and architecture of the seventeenth century, characterized by self-confidence, dynamism and a realistic approach to depiction. Gilbert Soest. Henry Howard, 6th Duke of Norfolk (c.1670–5) Tate. At its height in Rome from around 1630–1680, Baroque is particularly associated with the Catholic ...
Expressionism | Tate
WEBExpressionist art refers to the expression of subjective emotions, inner experiences and spiritual themes, as opposed to realistic depictions of people or nature. Examples of expressionism exist across painting, music, photography, performance, film and other media. In expressionist painting, colours may appear intense and non-naturalistic ...
Frida Kahlo | Tate Modern
WEBOct 9, 2005 · The Mexican artist Frida Kahlo (1907–1954) is now regarded as one of the most significant artists of the twentieth century and this will be the first major UK exhibition dedicated to her work to take place for over twenty years. Severely injured in a bus crash in her youth, Kahlo took up painting when confined to her bed. Kahlo's life was ...
History of Tate Modern | Tate
WEBTG 12/10/8/33 Tate Modern Project, Tate Public Records. Since it opened in May 2000, more than 40 million people have visited Tate Modern. It is one of the UK’s top three tourist attractions and generates an estimated £100 million in economic benefits to London annually. In 2009 Tate embarked on a major project to develop Tate Modern.
Understanding David Hockney's A Bigger Splash | Tate
WEBA Bigger Splash is inspired by a photograph Hockney found in a book about building a swimming pool, while the building in the background is taken from one of Hockney’s drawings of Californian buildings. It wasn’t just ‘found’ …
Impressionism | Tate
WEBImpressionism was developed by Claude Monet and other Paris-based artists from the early 1860s. (Though the process of painting on the spot can be said to have been pioneered in Britain by John Constable in around 1813–17 through his desire to paint nature in a realistic way).. Instead of painting in a studio, the impressionists found that they could capture …
Caricature | Tate
WEBCaricature. A caricature is a painting, or more usually drawing, of a person or thing in which the features and form have been distorted and exaggerated in order to mock or satirise the subject. The term is originally Italian, ‘caricatura’, and caricature appeared in Italian art about 1600 in the work of Annibale Carracci.
Tate Modern | Tate
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Renaissance | Tate
WEBRenaissance. French word meaning rebirth, now used in English to describe the great revival of art that took place in Italy from about 1400 under the influence of the rediscovery of classical art and culture. The Renaissance reached its peak (known as the High Renaissance) in the short period from about 1500–1530 in the work of Michelangelo ...
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