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Drawings are made with pencil or pen on white paper, right? Not always...
This week, we challenge you to make a colourful drawing! 🎨 #BarberDrawingChallenge
Here are Van Dyck's lush watercolour trees, and a vibrant orange and purple in this illustration by Mengxia Liu. 🌲💜🔶
Happy #WorldMusicDay - on the summer solstice! ☀️
We're bringing you sunshine through painting and music on #MusicMonday.
Gustave Courbet visited Étretat on the Normandy coast in the summer of 1869, working outdoors to create five views of the cliffs and numerous seascapes.
This fantastic architectural ‘capriccio’ of real and imaginary features was painted in 1796 by Hubert Robert, born #OnThisDay in 1733.
Which part catches your eye the most? (Ours? 🐈)
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We're #BackInTheBarber tomorrow! 🎊 Rosie, our learning and engagement intern, is looking forward to seeing 'A Mother and Child by the Sea' by Dahl:
“I really enjoy the ambiguity - we have to decide for ourselves if it’s a story of loss or reconnection.”
Our fourth #TuesdayTalks podcast series launches today - with the golden morning of 'A Pastoral Landscape' by Claude Lorrain. 🌤️
Delve into this idyllic painting's history, and learn about the artist himself, in this week's episode with Robert Wenley ➡️ https://t.co/Fub5QCD4JQ
Mozart's 'The Marriage of Figaro' premiered on 1 May, 1786. In the same year, Joshua Reynolds painted our virtuoso double portrait, 'Maria Marow Gideon & her Brother, William'.
Listen to 'Overture: Marriage of Figaro' by @rpoonline on #MusicMonday https://t.co/O03DHM6RDx
This dramatic lithograph, 'A Wild Horse', by Eugène Delacroix is our #PrintOfTheWeek. 🐎
The energy of the untamed horse is captured perfectly through the versatile technique of lithography, enabling Delacroix to illustrate its frightened response to a gust of wind.
Anyone tried this at home yet? 🎣
This coloured etching, 'Mr Briggs Contemplates a Day’s Fishing' by Victorian caricaturist John Leech, is our #PrintOfTheWeek.
As his family watches, his line knocks over candlesticks, picture frames and vases. https://t.co/cthk2rVZUV
Today's #OnlineArtExchange celebrates #AprilFools!
We are pretty amused by this incredible etching titled ‘Fool’s Head World Map’ produced around 1590 by an unknown artist - what do you think? @Americanmuseum https://t.co/TSK874Q0Mx
Happy #MothersDay! 💐
As the moonlight breaks through the clouds, a mother and child welcome home a fishing boat, presumably carrying the child’s father.
'A Mother and Child by the Sea' by Johan Christian Dahl is one of the smallest but best loved pictures in our collection.