Virginia Woolf: Art, Life In Addition To Vision At The Npg (July-October 2014)
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This summer, Virginia Woolf: Art, Life too Vision will endure on display from 10 July until 26 Oct at the National Portrait Gallery.
The exhibition volition accept the shape of a visual biography through portraiture too volition be devoted to the life too achievements of Virginia Woolf, the celebrated author too literary figure.
The display volition include over 100 paintings, drawings too photographs too rare archival material, including a alphabetic quality to her sister, Vanessa Bell, written before long earlier her suicide.
Woolf was a fellow member of the Bloomsbury grouping too was painted past times to a greater extent than than 1 of its members.
The exhibition volition accept the shape of a visual biography through portraiture too volition be devoted to the life too achievements of Virginia Woolf, the celebrated author too literary figure.
The display volition include over 100 paintings, drawings too photographs too rare archival material, including a alphabetic quality to her sister, Vanessa Bell, written before long earlier her suicide.
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| The exhibition page on the NPG website |
Woolf was a fellow member of the Bloomsbury grouping too was painted past times to a greater extent than than 1 of its members.
In 1905, Woolf too her sis Vanessa Bell began to host weekly gatherings held at 46 Gordon Square, which led to the evolution of the Bloomsbury grouping of writers, artists too intellectuals, of which the sisters were fundamental figures. The grouping included notable names such equally John Maynard Keynes, Roger Fry too Lytton Strachey. In 1912, Woolf married Leonard Woolf too together founded publishing companionship the Hogarth Press inward 1917.
In 1910 too 1912 Roger Fry brought French Post-impressionism to London too introduced England to modern art. From too then on Woolf’s evolution equally a modernist author was to an extent influenced past times her thinking nearly painting.
The portraits inward the exhibition volition include ones past times Roger Fry, Duncan Grant too Vanessa Bell
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| T.S. Eliot too Virginia Woolf by Lady Ottoline Morrell, June 1924 © National Portrait Gallery, London; |
Highlights of the exhibition include distinctive portraits of Woolf past times her Bloomsbury Group contemporaries, Vanessa Bell, Duncan Grant too Roger Fry, equally good equally a collection of photographs past times Beresford, Man Ray, too Beck too McGregor who photographed Woolf for Vogue. The exhibition volition likewise characteristic portraits of those she was closest to, including a alternative of intimate images recording her fourth dimension spent amongst friends, household unit of measurement too literary peers.
The exhibition follows on from previous National Portrait Gallery literary exhibitions that stimulate got combined portraiture amongst biography, including the presentation of the Sitwell household unit of measurement inward 1994 too the exam of Lord Byron inward 2002.
These are the details of:
- information for visitors
- how to mass tickets
- the biography written inward association amongst the exhibition - which tin plow over the axe endure ordered online
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