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London Fine Art Exhibitions - Autumn/Winter 2012

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These are the major fine art exhibitions at major fine art museums in addition to galleries inwards London inwards belatedly Autumn 2010 / Winter 2011.  The listing is organised yesteryear fine art gallery in addition to museum.  Within each venue the exhibitions are inwards appointment monastic tell in addition to dates are highlighted.

 The links inwards the names of the exhibitions are to their microsite pages (where available) of the relevant fine art gallery or museum where you lot tin dismiss meet them.

 So - are you lot planning to larn in addition to meet whatsoever of these exhibitions?

 UK - Major Art Galleries in addition to Museums

National Gallery
This looks at early on in addition to contemporary photography with paintings yesteryear Old Masters in addition to reviews how the traditions of fine fine art convey influenced photography.  This is the National gallery's starting fourth dimension major exhibition of photography.
Richard Hamilton died, historic menstruum 89 inwards 2011.  This is a retrospective exhibition of his belatedly operate in addition to includes fine art never earlier seen inwards public.
Not a large exhibition - only xxx crude oil sketches from American collections summation i completed ikon 'Niagara Falls, from the American Side' (1867) - but i which many plein air painters volition desire to crusade in addition to visit!

These are the major fine art exhibitions at major fine art museums in addition to galleries inwards London inwards belatedly H5N1 London Art Exhibitions - Autumn/Winter 2012
Niagara Falls, from the American Side (1867) by Frederic Edwin Church 
[Public domain or Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
oil on canvas, Height: 2,575 mm (101.38 in). Width: 2,273 mm (89.49 in)
The emphasis is on altarpieces and devotional drawings
National Portrait Gallery
Prince Henry in addition to Robert Devereux, tertiary Earl of Essex
yesteryear Robert Peake, c. 1605
Copyright: The Royal Collection
Photo: Supplied yesteryear Royal Collection Trust /
© HM Queen Elizabeth II 2012
I've popped into this i in addition to intend to larn dorsum every bit it looks absolutely fascinating. It's nigh the life of Henry, Prince of Wales (1594-1612) who died historic menstruum 18.
lx portraits yesteryear contemporary photographers - read my Review: Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2012
I'm looking forrard to this i every bit I've heard a lot nigh Man Ray but I remember I've alone always seen his photographs inwards books. The starting fourth dimension major museum retrospective of the influential in addition to innovative artist’s photographic portraits.
The remarkable portraits created during George Catlin's v trips to the western United States.  He documented the hold back in addition to wearing clothing of Native American people and their means of life.
Tate Modern
Photographs yesteryear William Klein in addition to Daido Moriyama of modern urban life modern urban life inwards New York in addition to Tokyo.  This is the Guardian review - Klein in addition to Moriyama at London's Tate Modern – reviews roundup
Tate Britain
An exhibition to celebrate his 80th birthday
This is the largest exhibition of Pre-Raphaelite operate since 1984 - in addition to it's proved rattling pop - I'd definitely recommend booking tickets if you lot programme to meet it over the Christmas / New Year's Day break. Read my review - Review - Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Avant-Garde at Tate Britain
The Pretty Baa-Lambs (1851-9) yesteryear Ford Madox Brown
crude oil on panel
Collection: Birmingham Museums in addition to Art Gallery
The usual....... The winner volition live on announced on Mon three Dec 2012 during a alive broadcast yesteryear Channel 4.

Royal Academy of Arts
  • Bronze 15 September—9 Dec 2012
It's all nigh bronze inwards fine art - from Ancient Hellenic Republic to contemporary sculpture. Here's what visitors convey had to say.
I'm looking forrard to this major novel exhibition nigh the evolution of the British School of landscape painting.
This exhibition is inwards the novel galleries inwards Burlington Gardens to the bring upward of the RA.
This is the starting fourth dimension always restrospective exhibition of Manet's portrait paintings.  This is a gallery of some of the images in the show.
Music inwards the Tuileries (1862) yesteryear Édouard Manet
crude oil on canvas, 76 × 118 cm (29.9 × 46.5 in)
Collection: National Gallery, London
British Museum
This is a corking review yesteryear the Independent which gives it four stars - Renaissance to Goya: Prints in addition to Drawings from Spain, British Museum, London and some other by Brian Sewell.  The consensus seems to live on this exhibition is worth seeing if you lot similar prints in addition to drawings.  Here's a classic paragraph from Sewell's review on the dependent champaign of  the value of drawings.
Drawings are hard for those who are unfamiliar with their study; they are the equivalent of the manuscript of an Austen novel or a Mozart symphony with all their erasures in addition to corrections — consider how much nosotros value those. Drawings tape the initiation of ideas in addition to their consequent maturity, they are records, documents, palimpsests in addition to industrial plant of fine art inwards their ain right; they tin dismiss live on every bit fresh every bit the hateful solar daytime they were drawn, or distressed, almost to illegibility, yesteryear constant reference, kicked in addition to scuffed on the studio floor. They tin dismiss live on of a whole composition, or of a item deep inside it, studied in addition to precise, or a dashing, fifty-fifty wild, impression. They tin dismiss live on drawn inwards a multifariousness of pens in addition to inks, ruby-red chalk, dark chalk, charcoal, pastel, waxed crayon, Pb or silverpoint, watercolour or whatsoever combination of these techniques. The would-be connoisseur must poke his olfactory organ inwards them in addition to worry them every bit a terrier with a rat.
British Library
200 objects document the Mughal empire from the 16th to the 19th century. 
Courtauld Gallery
This exhibition is a review of a torso of operate yesteryear England’s leading painter from the menstruum of the Civil War to the reign of Charles II
This exhibition is to celebrate Frank Auerbach gift of ix etchings by Lucian Freud (1922 - 2011) to the Courtauld Gallery.
Wallace Collection
An exhibition which aims to role the Wallace's collection of Murillo paintings to farther the agreement in addition to appreciation of Murillo every bit a key protagonist of Spain’s Golden Age.
Dulwich Gallery
This is an exhibition which is going to live on of involvement to those who similar Early English linguistic communication watercolours in addition to drawings. Read my review Review: Cotman inwards Normandy - at Dulwich Art Gallery
"Dutch Italianate paintings from Dulwich’s incomparable collection volition live on on display at the Mall Galleries inwards a farther collaborative company that sends Dulwich paintings to cardinal London."
More nigh the MuseumsTo detect out to a greater extent than nigh these museums you lot tin dismiss consult my resources sites for fine art lovers:

Great Britain - Major National Art Societies

These are the exhibitions yesteryear National Art Societies ( summation their 'leading lights') in addition to fine art competitions at the 2 principal galleries for fine art club exhibitions inwards London - the Mall Galleries on The Mall in addition to the Bankside Gallery, side yesteryear side to Tate Modern on the South Bank.

UK - National Art Societies

Mall Galleries 
The Federation of British Artists presents an exhibition of the landscapes of modern Great Britain - in addition to I'm actually looking forrard to seeing it
Bankside Gallery 

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