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00:00:33 Edinburgh, Princes Street. EXT day, sunny, view from above of busy high street by bus stop. 1970s fashion. Shops: British Home Stores, Romanes & Paterson, The Scotch House. Traffic, buses. Bus 44 to Eastfield pulls away from kerb. West End of Princes Street visible in background, Scottish National Gallery on left. Bus 16 goes past.
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Artist Rooms @ Edinburgh Art Festival
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art - ARTIST ROOMS
The Modern Art Galleries, situated in idyllic parkland in the west of the city, comprise the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art and the Dean Gallery.
The main displays at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art are drawn from the ARTIST ROOMS collection of over 700 works, recently acquired jointly by the National Galleries of Scotland and Tate, through the very generous donation of Anthony dOffay. At the heart of the collection is the concept of individual rooms devoted to particular artists, so that their work can be seen in depth. Highlights in the opening displays include Vija Celmins delicate images of seas, deserts and the nights sky, Francesca Woodmans intimate and moving surrealist influenced photographs, and an extensive display of work by Damien Hirst, including the iconic Away from the Flock.
A further room opens on 6 August especially for the Festival dedicated to the work of the influential American abstract artist Agnes Martin.
Exhibition runs until 8th november.
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John Singer Sargent - Paintings by Sargent in the Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland.
John Singer Sargent (American, Florence 1856-1925 London) - Paintings by John Singer Sargent in the National Galleries of Scotland, Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.
John Singer Sargent (January 12, 1856 – April 14, 1925) was an American expatriate artist, considered the leading portrait painter of his generation for his evocations of Edwardian-era luxury. He created roughly 900 oil paintings and more than 2,000 watercolors, as well as countless sketches and charcoal drawings. His oeuvre documents worldwide travel, from Venice to the Tyrol, Corfu, the Middle East, Montana, Maine, and Florida.
He was born in Florence to American parents, and trained in Paris before moving to London, living most of his life in Europe. He enjoyed international acclaim as a portrait painter, although not without controversy and some critical reservation; an early submission to the Paris Salon, his Portrait of Madame X, was intended to consolidate his position as a society painter, but instead resulted in scandal. From the beginning his work is characterized by remarkable technical facility, particularly in his ability to draw with a brush, which in later years inspired admiration as well as criticism for a supposed superficiality. His commissioned works were consistent with the grand manner of portraiture, while his informal studies and landscape paintings displayed a familiarity with Impressionism. In later life Sargent expressed ambivalence about the restrictions of formal portrait work, and devoted much of his energy to mural painting and working en plein air. Art historians generally ignored society artists such as Sargent until the late 20th century.
Madame X or Portrait of Madame X is the title of a portrait painting by John Singer Sargent of a young socialite named Virginie Amélie Avegno Gautreau, wife of the French banker Pierre Gautreau. Madame X was painted not as a commission, but at the request of Sargent. It is a study in opposition. Sargent shows a woman posing in a black satin dress with jeweled straps, a dress that reveals and hides at the same time. The portrait is characterized by the pale flesh tone of the subject contrasted against a dark colored dress and background.
The scandal resulting from the painting's controversial reception at the Paris Salon of 1884 amounted to a temporary set-back to Sargent while in France, though it may have helped him later establish a successful career in Britain and America.
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The Creative World Of Alan Davie @ Edinburgh Art Festival 2009
'The Creative World of Alan Davie' celebrates the remarkable breath of work from one of Scotland's most respected and influential artists.
The exhibition runs 5th August - 26th September 2009.
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Buckingham Palace gallery explores portraits in all their forms
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Buckingham Palace's art gallery is unveiling a new exhibit which explores artists' portraits in all their various forms - from small sketches to a sprawling, five-metre wide oil painting.
Among the famous faces hanging on the walls: Queen Elizabeth, Prince Phillip, Rubens, Rembrandt and Reynolds.
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Portraits can take on several different meanings. This self-portrait by Flemish artist Peter Paul Rubens was an apology.
It was sent to English monarch Charles I after an earlier piece had been found to be a studio work and not from the artist's own hand.
Rubens had sent the earlier work not knowing it was intended for the monarch. This replacement was intended to showcase his talents.
It's now taking pride of place in a new exhibition at The Queen's Gallery, Buckingham Palace.
'Portrait of the Artist' features over 150 paintings drawn from the Royal Collection.
It shows there's more to portraits than just faces - sometimes they can be used for self-promotion, at other times they show artists at work.
This is very much not an exhibition of a series of faces, it's not just a series of self-portraits of similar-looking people through time, says Anna Reynolds, a senior curator at the Royal Collection Trust.
There are themes within this exhibition which include the cult of the artist, for example, all about the artistic personality, what it means to be an artist.
So artists at various times have been esteemed and raised to the same level as a prince or an emperor, but some have felt very rejected, so it's the idea of what it means to be an artist.
But we also have images of artists at work, and we artists dressing up or playing different roles, so playing the role or a personification, or a figure, or wearing very strange clothing.
This 1908 self-portrait by French painter Jean-Baptiste Edouard Detaille shows him sporting an extravagant moustache and puffing a pipe.
He's wearing the uniform of a Red Lancer from Napoleon's Imperial Guard from almost a hundred years earlier.
With their rising status from the Renaissance onwards, artists increasingly acknowledged their own profession in self-portraits, perhaps showing a brush or palette.
Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh makes an appearance. And his art does too.
The exhibition features these reciprocal portraits of the Duke of Edinburgh and British landscape artist Edward Seago.
They were painted onboard the Royal Yacht Britannia during Prince Philip's world tour in 1956-7.
The Duke of Edinburgh, one of his favored artists was Edward Seago and he invited Seago to accompany him on a trip on HMS Britannia back from Australia in 1956 because he thought that Seago might see some amazing landscapes as they sailed past Antarctica for Seago to paint, explains Reynolds.
And while they were there, evidently, they painted each other.
Bringing things right up to date, there's this etched self-portrait by Lucian Freud. It was done in 1996 when he was 74-years-old.
Freud also makes an appearance in this photograph, showing him painting a portrait of the Queen in 2001.
The sittings happened in the conservation studio at St. James's Palace, says Reynolds.
And when you see the photograph, you see how bare the walls are and there's a pipe running. This is not a grand palatial interior to be painting in. And it shows the reality of what it was like to sit for a portrait.
The largest work in the exhibit is this sprawling, five-metre wide oil painting of revelers escorting a 13th century altarpiece through the streets of Florence.
But sometimes it's the smaller details which matter. Like this self-portrait by Italian painter Artemisia Gentileschi.
Some portraits can poke fun.
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'The Monarch of the Glen' by Edwin Landseer
As we prepare for Sir Edwin Landseer’s iconic painting ‘The Monarch of the Glen’ to return to the Scottish National Gallery in Edinburgh, join the conversation about the significance of this iconic image for modern Scotland.
In March 2017 the National Galleries of Scotland was able to secure Edwin Landseer’s iconic painting ‘The Monarch of the Glen’ (1851) for the nation. After initially hanging in the Scottish National Gallery in Edinburgh, the painting embarked on a nationwide tour of Scotland. It was on loan to four venues across the country, giving the public a chance to see and interact with it. We want to know what the public think about it and how it makes them feel.
In this film, staff from the National Galleries of Scotland, Inverness Museum and Art Gallery (the first venue on the tour), and artists Ross Sinclair and Allan Whyte discuss the painting and its national significance.
See the Monarch of the Glen at the Scottish National Gallery from 17 April: ow.ly/XJh230odjV3
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Samson Young / Real Music. Talbot Rice Gallery.
Talbot Rice Gallery and the University of Edinburgh are proud to present the first solo exhibition in the UK by acclaimed Hong Kong artist and composer, Samson Young (b. 1979).
At the heart of the exhibition is an ambitious collaboration with the University of Edinburgh’s Next Generation Sound Synthesis (NESS) research group, who have developed pioneering software that can generate the sound of virtual instruments.
For historians this offers the opportunity to hear lost objects, while for Samson Young it is an opportunity to hear
the impossible.
Talks & Lectures | The Monarch of the Glen and Popular Cultural Images of Scotland
Edwin Landseer’s 1851 painting The Monarch of the Glen has become one of the most globally recognised and frequently reproduced visual images of Scotland and Scottishness. That story involves traversing a cultural landscape as dramatically varied as the physical one that the artist originally depicted on canvas.
In this illustrated talk, Dr Jonathan Murray, Edinburgh College of Art, considers both the historical roots and the enduring cultural resonance of Landseer’s work.
Buckingham Palace gallery explores portraits in all their forms
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1. Various of self portrait of Sir Peter Paul Rubens, 1623 on display at The Queen's Gallery's new exhibit 'Portrait of the Artist'
2. Various of 'Self-Portrait in a Flat Cap' by Rembrandt van Rijn, 1642
3. Wide tilt down of The Queen's Gallery exhibit space
4. Various of self-portrait by Thomas Frye, 1760
5. Various of 'St. Luke Painting the Virgin and Child' by Eduard von Steinle, 1851
6. Various of 'The Tribuna of the Uffizi' by Johan Jospeh Zoffany, 1771-7
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Anna Reynolds, Senior Curator of Paintings, Royal Collection Trust:
This is very much not an exhibition of a series of faces, it's not just a series of self-portraits of similar-looking people through time. There are themes within this exhibition which include the cult of the artist, for example, all about the artistic personality, what it means to be an artist. So artists at various times have been esteemed and raised to the same level as a prince or an emperor, but some have felt very rejected, so it's the idea of what it means to be an artist. But we also have images of artists at work, and we artists dressing up or playing different roles, so playing the role or a personification, or a figure, or wearing very strange clothing.
8. Various of self-portrait by Jean-Baptiste Edouard Detaille, 1908
9. Various of 'A Landscape with Ruins' attributed to Claude Gellee, 1630
10. Various of 'HRH The Duke of Edinburgh painting on the deck of the HMY Britannia' by Edward Seago, 1956-7
11. Various of 'Seago Painting' by HRH Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, 1956-7
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Anna Reynolds, Senior Curator of Paintings, Royal Collection Trust:
The Duke of Edinburgh, one of his favored artists was Edward Seago and he invited Seago to accompany him on a trip on HMS Britannia back from Australia in 1956 because he thought that Seago might see some amazing landscapes as they sailed past Antarctica for Seago to paint. And while they were there, evidently, they painted each other.
13. Various of 'Self-Portrait: Reflection' by Lucian Freud, 1996
14. Various of photograph by David Dawson showing the Queen sitting for Lucian Freud, 2001
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Anna Reynolds, Senior Curator of Paintings, Royal Collection Trust:
The sittings happened in the conservation studio at St. James's Palace. And when you see the photograph, you see how bare the walls are and there's a pipe running. This is not a grand palatial interior to be painting in. And it shows the reality of what it was like to sit for a portrait.
16. Various of 'Cimabue's Madonna Carried in Procession' by Frederic Leighton, 1853-5
17. Pan right to 'Self-Portrait as the Allegory of Painting (La Pittura)' by Artemisia Gentileschi, 1638-9
18. Close pan right of 'Self-Portrait as the Allegory of Painting (La Pittura)' by Artemisia Gentileschi, 1638-9
19. Setup shot of Estelle Lovatt, Art Critic, looking at painting
20. Tilt up of 'Titian and his Friends' by Titian, 1550-60
21. SOUNDBITE (English) Estelle Lovatt, Art Critic:
The wonderful thing about portraits or self-portraits is that it can show you at work so you see the artist standing at their easel, but you also see the artist how they want to be depicted. So if you see them in the role of some great character form the Bible, it's fantastic, it's almost like dressing up for Halloween.
22. Wide of man looking at 'A Self-Portrait of Sir Joshua Reynolds' by Henry Bone after Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1804
25. Various of 'Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun' by Leopoldo Dumini, 1893
32. Mid of band marching
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Fay Godwin photography exhibition 'Land Revisited'
To mark the 25th anniversary of Fay Godwin’s seminal exhibition and book Land, we displayed a selection of prints from the original exhibition.
All images shown with permission of The British Library Board.
Stills Talks: Martin Parr. Documentary Photography: Asset or Liability
Parr is known for his work on social classes and the wealth of the Western world, photographing the working classes for The Last Resort (1982-85) and the middle classes for The Cost of Living (1987-89). He achieved Recognition for Significant Contribution in the Field of Visual Arts (Royal Academy) in 2016 and an Outstanding Contribution to Photography prize (World Photography Organisation) in 2017. Parr had a retrospective at the Barbican in 2002, is a member of Magnum Photos and supports the Martin Parr Foundation at the Paintworks in Bristol. Parr won a Lucie Foundation award in 2014 and Exceptional Achievement in Photography from Amateur Photographer magazine.
Stills:Talks is a new online library of artist talks, art history lectures and unreleased archive footage from the brightest minds in photography. Commissioned by The Space for #Stills40, we will be digitising audio and film footage from our archive enabling everyone to learn about photography. Find out about feminism in photography and the politics of representation, documenting conflict and war, photo montage, and more.
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David Batchelor: On Colour and Darkness
Batchelor’s work comprises three-dimensional structures, photographs, paintings and drawings, and it mostly relates to a long term interest in colour and urbanism. He has exhibited widely in the UK, continental Europe, the Americas and, more recently, Asia. Recent exhibitions include Flatlands, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh/Spike Island, Bristol (2013/14); Magic Hour, Gemeentmuseum, The Hague (2012); Chromophilia: 1995-2010, Paço Imperial, Rio de Janeiro (2010); Color Chart, Museum of Modern Art, New York (2008) and Tate Liverpool (2009); Extreme Abstraction, Albright Knox Gallery, Buffalo, New York (2005); the Biennial de Santiago, Chile (2005); Shiny Dirty, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham (2004); the 26th Bienal De São Paulo (2004); Sodium and Asphalt, Museo Tamayo, Mexico City (2003); and Days Like These: Tate Britain Triennial of Contemporary Art, Tate Britain, London (2003). In January 2015 Batchelor will be making a large-scale installation at the Whitechapel Gallery, London, as a part of their exhibition Adventures of the Black Square: Abstract Art and Society 1915-2015.
Chromophobia, Batchelor’s book on colour and the fear of colour in the West, was published by Reaktion Books, London, in 2000 and is now available in eight languages. His new book on colour, The Luminious and the Grey, was also published by Reaktion Books in February 2014. Colour (2008), an anthology of writings on colour from 1850 to the present, edited by Batchelor, is published by Whitechapel, London and MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass. His book of photographs, Found Monochromes: vol.1, nos.1-250 (2010), is published by Ridinghouse, London.
Queen Victoria | Transformation From 1 To 81 Years Old
Birthday: May 24, 1819
Nationality: British
Famous: Leaders Empresses & Queens
Died At Age: 81
Sun Sign: Gemini
Also Known As: Alexandrina Victoria
Born In: Kensington Palace
Famous As: Queen Of The United Kingdom Of Great Britain And Ireland
Family:
Spouse/Ex-: Prince Albert Of Saxe-Coburg And Gotha (M.1840-1861)
Father: Prince Edward, Duke Of Kent And Strathearn
Mother: Princess Victoria Of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld
Children: Alfred, Duchess Of Argyll, Duke Of Albany, Duke Of Connaught And Strathearn, Duke Of Saxe-Coburg And Gotha, Edward VII, Prince Arthur, Prince Leopold, Princess Alice Of The United Kingdom, Princess Beatrice Of The United Kingdom, Princess Helena Of The United Kingdom, Princess Louise, Princess Royal, Victoria
Died On: January 22, 1901
Place Of Death: Osborne House
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Her reign as the Queen of United Kingdom is known as the Victorian Era, for it was her stern and rigid view on morality, and the urge to watch United Kingdom ascend and become supreme and powerful on the world stage that helped define the age! Queen Victoria was one of the most prolific monarchs of the country. She became the longest reigning monarch in England, British and Scottish monarchy, a record that stands till date. It was during her succession to throne that the United Kingdom experienced a massive expansion in almost every sphere - be it technological, communication or industrial. The underground railways that have become an integral part of British transportation system have its foundation dating back to the Victorian era. Similarly, loads of bridges, roads and rail lines that are present today first came into form under her rule. Industrial and technological feats apart, she worked to transform the face of United Kingdom by eradicating poverty and diminishing class difference. The literacy rate also experienced a massive rise during her reign.
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Childhood & Early Life
A succession crisis after the death of Princess Charlotte of Wales, the only legitimate heir of King George III of United Kingdom, caused a state of panic among the sons of the king.
The Duke of Kent married Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, who bore him their rightful heir, Victoria in 1819 at Kensington Palace in London.
She was christened by the Archbishop of Canterbury in the Cupola Room at Kensington Palace. Baptised Alexandrina Victoria, she was fifth in line of succession, after her father and uncles.
Upon the death of her grandfather and father in 1820, she was next probable heiress to Duke of Clarence, popularly called William IV. Since she was a minor, King William assumed the responsibility until she turned 18.
As a child, she was raised protectively under elaborate rules and protocols. Her mother forbade her to meet new people. Due to this, she remained sad and melancholic.
She was home-schooled by private tutors, who taught her various subjects and languages including, French, Italian, German and Latin. In her idle hours, she played with her dolls and the spaniel, Dash.
Starting 1830, she was forcefully taken on tours across the length and breadth of the country, stopping at towns and country homes, by her mother and comptroller, Sir John Conroy. These trips were greatly despised by her.
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Reign
Upon the death of her uncle, King William IV, she became the rightful and legal heir to the throne. She was chosen the Queen of the United Kingdom. Her first name was dropped and she thence became known as Queen Victoria in 1837.
As per the Salic law which was under existence, she was banned from Hanoverian succession, who shared a monarch with Britain. As such, she inherited everything but Hanover which was passed to the Duke of Cumberland, who was next in line to the throne until she married and had a family of her own.
The formal coronation was held on June 28, 1838 after which she became the first sovereign to take up residence at Buckingham Palace. Since she was novice and too young to take important decisions, she relied on Whig Prime Minister Lord Melbourne for everything. The two shared a father-daughter relationship.
At the beginning of her reign, she was popular but her allegations and derogatory remarks against Lady Flora (one of her mother's ladies-in-waiting) and Sir John Conroy in 1839 caused her reputation to suffer. The abomination led to resignation of Lord Melbourne from premiership. However, in the following weeks, he regained his position.
Following her marriage to Albert in 1840, Lord Melbourne took a backseat as Albert soon filled up for his shoes and became her chief political advisor. His influence dominated her being, as he resolved to solve all her issues be it political or personal.
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