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A vibrant landscape evoking spring to welcome in the New Year... 🌳
Painted by influential Flemish artist Anthony van Dyck in 1635-1641, the spontaneity of our 'English Landscape' suggests it may have been painted outside, directly from nature.
➡️ https://t.co/y4y1Xg3HOq
Can you see the comfy cat?🐱 This nostalgic woodcut by Paul Emile Colin was made after 1902.
Woodcuts date back to the 8th century when Buddhist monks in Japan & China used them to reproduce devotional texts- the medium reached Europe in the 15th century. https://t.co/lNvwdnlPoy
Our final #ShareYourMasterpiece to celebrate @RCT's new #Masterpieces exhibition is Jan Steen's 'The Wrath of Ahasuerus' from about 1671-73.
The Dutch Golden Age artist created engaging and humorous scenes, often of peasant life, as well as Old Testament scenes like this one.
Our second #ShareYourMasterpiece choice @RCT is... our 'Sheet of Studies' by Rembrandt, from the mid-1630s.
Many of his sets of studies appear to have been cut into pieces at some stage: this is the most complete set on a single sheet to survive.
We're joining @RCT for #ShareYourMasterpiece! We'll share masterpieces from our collection to celebrate the new #Masterpieces exhibition at the Queen’s Gallery. 🖼️
First up- our beautiful 'Pastoral Landscape' by Claude Lorrain, 1645 - bright & fresh after recent conservation.
As we draw closer to the shortest day of the year, join us for a drawing workshop especially for students! Inspired by our Picasso, investigate how the drawn line can reflect our rhythms and stresses...
Wed 16 Dec, 7 – 8.30pm. Free; online via Zoom. https://t.co/deWGfAFuTh
Poet @JasmineGardosi and artist @laura_onions led two heartwarming student workshops with us during @unibirmingham's #WelcomeWeek2020.
Thanks to everyone who came along! ✨ We hope to see you again soon. Poem extracts by Jasmine Gardosi; prints by Laura Onions.
'The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.' - Aristotle. #WednesdayWisdom
Johan Christian Dahl's 'Mother and Child by the Sea' might be one of our smallest paintings, but it holds a great significance to many people.
It's Tuesday afternoon - and time for another 10-minute podcast episode to accompany your coffee break.☕
Today, Robert Wenley, our Deputy Director, takes a look at Salomon van Ruysdael’s 'A Cavalry Travelling through a Wooded Landscape' from about 1658.
https://t.co/BoKzJwnpsh
#MusicMonday... in the moonlight. 🌝
One of the smallest oil paintings in our collection, 'Mother and Child by the Sea' is a favourite of many visitors. We could be looking at a childhood memory of Norwegian painter JC Dahl - his father was a fisherman.
https://t.co/UyjjcjiKa9