In anticipation of the Alexander Calder’s retrospective at Tate Modern, we take a look at his highly unique artistic career.
extractions
But abstractions
Abstractions that are like nothing in life except in their manner
Take a look at Mark Dion’s Tate Thames Dig, find out how it was made and what’s a wunderkammer in this online resource, with discussion and activities
association to make the viewer question why the modern museum is organised in the manner
Tate glossary definition for sculpture: Three-dimensional art made by one of four basic processes: carving, modelling, casting, constructing
movement characterised by subjects painted from everyday life in a naturalistic manner
Take a closer look at William Blake’s illustrations to Dante’s Divine Comedy through Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise. Read a summary and analysis of sections from Dante’s epic poem and listen to recordings of each section.
where the souls of people guilty of different sins are punished in an appropriate manner
Schwaz Tuesday, 5 (?) September Dear Annerl! I’m sitting here at the table behind the stable, with the red parasol stretched out over my typewriter (to achieve this delightful little artifice I’ve brought one of the red chairs from the terrace and I’m sitting opposite the stable wall). And my naked back is soaking up the sun like a thirsty sponge, because it hasn’t stopped raining or at least drizzling since we arrived, and we’re all chilled to the bone. From today, though, the barometer and the general sense of optimism is promising the most wonderful autumn weather, so I’ll …
blue and rose red, with lace and all the trimmings, in the most charming Viennese manner
strokes of colour and each pearl with a single catchlight, in a rapid and assured manner
14 February 1933 Annerl! When I put this new tracksuit on it fills me with more warmth than the fabric itself could possibly contain. Must I speak through Clifford and Ellen? Somehow I want to communicate in a less intellectual way. After all, Ellen was Peter’s wife, and the symbol of her name is a diversion that sometimes tries my patience, because for me at least the diversion is unnecessary and makes me feel as though there were a glass wall between me and the palpable, living reality. The warmth of the tracksuit reminds me of the English Gardens, the …
seem to take the stuff of life by the scruff of the neck; they write about all manner
Marina Warner introduces Paula Rego’s new illustrations for Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre
But it is also a novel that, written in confessional narrative manner, tells what
Tate Learning resource for Schools and Teachers about William Stott of Oldham’s painting ‚Le Passeur‘ (The Ferryman) 1881. Find out about the painting’s symbolism, meanings and the artist’s techniques.
What was the socio-political shift for artists to start working in this plein air manner
Bernd and Hilla Becher have spent their life together photographing the unintended beauty that can be found in industrial structures. Michael Collins profiles the winners of 2002’s prestigious erasmus prize for European culture.
more than 40 years they have been making pictures in a systematic and unerring manner
