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The Google Doodle commemorating
150 years of the London Underground
You tin give the sack only brand out the letters inwards the stops
(Mine's inwards the 'e')
150 years agone today, the London Underground started.  Today it gets its rattling ain Google Doodle 

 However the Art on the London Underground is i of the rattling 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 in addition to 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 rattling commencement Tube journeying took identify betwixt Paddington in addition to Farringdon on the Metropolitan Railway.

There are GFDL], Photo past times Sunil060902 via Wikimedia Commons
In 2013 Art on the Underground volition introduce a programme that volition include: a major committee past times an acclaimed, high profile British creative individual bringing artworks into every station on the Tube network; a committee alongside fifteen leading contemporary artists to create an icon equally i inwards a gear upwards 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 inwards Covent Garden which opens in Feb (no specific engagement equally nonetheless 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 commencement graphic poster committee inwards 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 choose been chosen past times an independent panel. Visitors volition live invited to vote for their favourites in addition to the most pop poster volition live revealed at the terminate of the exhibition.
The Museum also has a store which sells the posters - in addition to this novel i designed specifically for the 150th anniversary.  Bound to choke a collector's item!

You tin give the sack browse the posters past times subject in addition to past times colour.  Here are the themes

Here are to a greater extent than posters from ones I've constitute online inwards the Wikimedia Commons.  I choose to confess I'm especially fond of the ones from the commencement decades of the 20th century - but also similar the to a greater extent than contemporary ones too.

This i makes me intend illustrators must choose been influenced past times the artwork well-nigh London - past times artists such equally Whistler.  This i could choose been called Blue Nocturne at Battersea!

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

The Humours of London No. v (1913)
by Tony Sarg (an American High German illustrator)
Caption: All genuinely peachy 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 inwards 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 give the sack always retrieve seeing a top chapeau on the tube - although I've seen a fair few people dressed upwards in addition to on their means to dark necktie events - in addition to choose done the same myself!

By Horace Taylor 1881–1934.
Print past times The Dangerfield Printing Co. Ltd., London.
[Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
This side past times side i is a fighting out of the ordinary - in addition to ranks inwards the same category equally a poesy form past times Rupert Brooke

World War I poster past times 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 at in i lawsuit engaged inwards of import concern inwards French Republic in addition to 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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