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Brand New!! The Fine Art Of The London Underground

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The Google Doodle commemorating
150 years of the London Underground
You tin dismiss merely brand out the letters inward the stops
(Mine's inward the 'e')
150 years agone today, the London Underground started.  Today it gets its really ain Google Doodle 

 However the Art on the London Underground is i of the really best parts of "the tube" for me.

 My small contribution to the birthday political party is below.  It covers:
  • events for the 150th anniversary
  • The Art on the Underground - website, mission together with projection for the 150th
  • The Poster Art 150 Exhibition
  • poster fine art from the past
150th anniversary

Today ninth Jan 2013 is the 150th anniversary since the really get-go Tube journeying took identify betwixt Paddington together with Farringdon on the Metropolitan Railway.

There are GFDL], Photo yesteryear Sunil060902 via Wikimedia Commons
In 2013 Art on the Underground volition acquaint a programme that volition include: a major committee yesteryear an acclaimed, high profile British creative mortal bringing artworks into every station on the Tube network; a committee alongside fifteen leading contemporary artists to create an picture every bit i inward a ready of fifteen artworks that volition live a lasting visual legacy for the Tube’s 150th year
Poster Art 150

Poster Art 150: London's greatest Designs is an exhibition at the London Transport Museum inward Covent Garden which opens in Feb (no specific appointment every bit all the same on the website) and continues until October.  Its aim is to focus on the iconic poster fine art that has been a characteristic of London Underground for much of its history
Since its get-go graphic poster committee inward 1908, London Underground has developed a worldwide reputation for commissioning outstanding poster designs, becoming a pioneering patron of poster fine art - a legacy that continues today. Poster Art 150 volition showcase 150 of the best designs which select been chosen yesteryear an independent panel. Visitors volition live invited to vote for their favourites together with the most pop poster volition live revealed at the destination of the exhibition.
The Museum also has a store which sells the posters - together with this novel i designed specifically for the 150th anniversary.  Bound to instruct a collector's item!

You tin dismiss browse the posters yesteryear topic together with yesteryear colour.  Here are the themes

Here are to a greater extent than posters from ones I've constitute online inward the Wikimedia Commons.  I select to confess I'm peculiarly fond of the ones from the get-go decades of the 20th century - but also similar the to a greater extent than contemporary ones too.

This i makes me intend illustrators must select been influenced yesteryear the artwork most London - yesteryear artists such every bit Whistler.  This i could select been called Blue Nocturne at Battersea!

"Underground; the moving spirit of London",
yesteryear Thomas Robert Way
Published yesteryear Underground Electric Railway Company Ltd, 1910,
Printed yesteryear T R Way together with Company Ltd, 1910
This i is of visitors to an exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts together with was illustrated yesteryear a High German American illustrator called Tony Sarg

The Humours of London No. five (1913)
by Tony Sarg (an American High German illustrator)
Caption: All genuinely non bad fine art is refreshing. At the R.A. alongside the Underground.
Poster for the London Underground includes
a drawing of patrons of the Royal Academy of Arts.
via Wikimedia Commons
Poster inward LT shop
The message hasn't changed much over the years fifty-fifty if the wearing clothing standards have.  I don't intend I tin dismiss always yell back seeing a top lid on the subway - although I've seen a fair few people dressed upward together with on their means to dark necktie events - together with select done the same myself!

By Horace Taylor 1881–1934.
Print yesteryear The Dangerfield Printing Co. Ltd., London.
[Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
This side yesteryear side i is a flake out of the ordinary - together with ranks inward the same category every bit a poesy form yesteryear Rupert Brooke

World War I poster yesteryear English linguistic communication painter George Clausen (1852-1944).
Poster showing an idyllic English linguistic communication hamlet scene alongside the caption:
"The Underground Railway of London, knowing how many of their passengers are straightaway engaged inward of import line concern inward French Republic together with other parts of the world, send out this reminder of home. Thanks are due to George Clausen RA for the drawing."


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