A Moving Painting Of London

The BBC boob tube programme A Picture of London provides a content for diverse paintings of London past times such good known artists every bit Canaletto, JMW Turner, William Hogarth, Claude Monet, JM Whistler, John Martin, Gustave Doré, CRW Nevinson, and Henry Moore . It also introduced me to less good known artists such every bit Joseph van Aken together with John Collett who produced figurative townscapes.

 The means inward which the metropolis has been destroyed together with regenerated is highlighted.

The burning of the Houses of Parliament past times JMW Turner

The BBC2 programme was genuinely developed every bit business office of the London 2012 Festival together with The Cultural Olympiad on the BBC

Here's what the BBC had to tell close it

This first-hand, eyewitness concern human relationship charts the extraordinary increment of London together with uncovers what the past times genuinely looked together with felt like, excavating London’s history non simply through familiar paintings, but past times ranging correct across the visual record: posters, cartoons, architectural sketches, maps, plans, photos together with film.

In a metropolis that seems ever-changing it’s difficult to imagine that simply behind the brilliant lights together with glass-fronted shops lies the designing of London, a slice of history preserved behind a modern façade.

The programme digs out the unexpected together with the surprising – the images that carry viewers dorsum alongside a jounce to the days when Notting Hill was a racecourse, Peckham a well-to-do Victorian suburb together with Marble Arch a house of populace execution.

If yous missed the BBC2 programme about you convey 7 days to watch Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Picture of London on BBC iPlayer in the side past times side 7 days.

Here are some of the images featured inward the programme.  You tin give notice uncovering most of the images on the Your Paintings website.  You tin give notice also Browse a gallery of paintings from BBC Two's Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Picture of London

Westminster Bridge from the N on Lord Mayor's Day (1746) past times Antonio Canaletto

Pandemonium past times John Martin

Covent Garden Piazza together with Market past times John Collett (1725 - 1780)
Collection: Museum of London

Covent Garden Piazza together with Market, London (1726–1730)by Joseph van Aken
Oil on canvas, 96 x 100.6 cm
Collection: Museum of London

Besides national collections, the Museum of London has an first-class collection of Paintings, prints together with drawings.

The collection covers a vast attain of London-related dependent area affair from the 16th Century to the nowadays day. We concur operate past times major artists every bit good every bit a wealth of images that give away the topographical, social together with artistic life of London.

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