#Aberdeen Art Gallery

[larsdatter]

The Galloway Hoard: Viking-Age Treasure is at the Aberdeen Art Gallery through October 23, 2022.

#Galloway Hoard #Aberdeen Art Gallery #museum #Viking age

[vaampiricdecay]

COME W ME TO AN ART GALLERY FOR COLLEGE!!! 1!!!!

we r waiting 4 the bus to the bus station cause its so rainy and I cba to walk

we're on!! my headphones decided to die on me so I started charging them

at the bus station, it's like 10 mins b4 my bus

bus is here, waiting in the cold to actually GET ON THE DAMN THING

on the bus, finally going

this is bat, btw. I use him to ground myself if I have panic attacks

almost in aberdeen :p

got to the gallery 💪💪

top pics (wowwwasjajdjdk)

also sketched a bit while I was there, if u wanna see them ask and I'll post them!

#day in the life #day out #scotland #aberdeen art gallery #woo art #bus adventures #do do do do do do do

[downthetubes]

Quentin Blake: Illustrating Verse exhibition on UK tour

The Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration is touring an exhibition of Quentin Blake's original illustrations around Britain

The Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration, the UK’s first and only charity for illustration, is touring an exhibition of Quentin Blake‘s original illustrations around Britain during 2023, and into next year, with more venues being sought. “The choice of moments, and a sense of discretion about what to draw and what not to draw, is particularly important in the business of illustrating poetry.” –…

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#Aberdeen Art Gallery #downthetubes News #Exhibition #Quentin Blake #Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration #Raymond Briggs #Weston Museum

[0nthebalcony]

Joan Eardley 1921 - 1963

Brother and Sister

1955

Oil on canvas

H 102.2 x W 76.5 cm

Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museums

© the Eardley estate. All rights reserved, DACS 2022. Photo credit: Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museums

#joan eardley #British Art 1945 - 1965 #aberdeen art gallery

[hometoursandotherstuff]

The pelvises of Christine Borland. Christine Borland is a Scottish artist who explores the fascinating intersections between art and medicine, life and death. This is an installation of 5  ceramic pelvises containing fetal skulls, which Borland based on antique obstetric models.

The pelvises & skulls are made of bone china — a type of porcelain that contained bone ash. Each set is hand-painted with an “oriental” pattern adapted from traditional 18th and 19th century English tableware.

Childbirth had a high risk for a woman, yet her value in society was linked to her ability to marry and reproduce. Instead of cups and saucers, Borland presents the female body as the thing which is most precious, fragile and commodified within the domestic setting.

#art #sculpture #artist christine Borland #aberdeen art gallery UK #other stuff

[nonagalleryart]

I am at Aberdeen Comic Con this weekend and wanted to create a special t-shirt design for the event. So after talking with some lovely people in Glasgow I will be debuting this little chonk at the con. Come say hi if you’re going!

#t shirt #Nona Gallery #Art #Illustration #Shop #Design #Kawaii #Squirrel #Aberdeen #Scotland #Meme #If I survive the 7 hour trip to get there

[ailishsinclair]

Up on the Roof of Aberdeen Art Gallery

You can now go up on the roof of the newly done-up Aberdeen Art Gallery. It’s quite nice up there among the green domes of the city. That’s the theatre straight ahead and Union Terrace Gardens (also going through the process of change) to the left. Arriving on the roof of Aberdeen Art Gallery I was relieved to arrive up on the roof during my recent visit. I’d displayed distinctly codger-like…

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#aberdeen #art #art gallery #history #Scotland #scottish history

[lubentina]

Harold John Wilde Gilman (British, 1876 – 1919)

Grace Canedy (the artist's first wife), c.1904. Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museums

oil on canvas

#british #20th century #the camden town group #oil on canvas #Harold John Wilde Gilman #Harold Gilman #portrait #Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museums #aberdeen #grace canedy

[centuriespast]

Strollers' Reverie Robert Walker Macbeth (1848–1910) Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museums

[thepaintedroom]

Dorothy Johnstone (British/Scottish, 1892–1980) • Black and Yellow • 1920 • Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museums, Aberdeen, Scotland

#art #fine art #painting #art history #dorothy Johnstone #british/Scottish artist #woman artist #woman painter #art nude #oil painting #figurative #paintings of interiors #paintings of domestic interiors #the painted room art blog #art blogs on tumblr #artwork #art appreciation

[the1920sinpictures]

1920's Cloche hat of felt with a cashmere brim. From the Aberdeen Art Gallery and Museums.

[scotianostra]

Scottish Playwright, writer and Artist John Patrick Byrne was on January 6th 1940 in Paisley.

John Byrne where he grew up in the Ferguslie Park housing scheme and was educated at the town’s St Mirin’s Academy before attending Glasgow School of Art, where he excelled. In his final year he was awarded the Bellahousten Award, the school’s most prestigious painting prize, and spent six months in Italy, returning a masterful and confident young artist. His work is held in major collections in Scotland and abroad.

Several of his paintings have hang in The Scottish National Portrait Gallery in Edinburgh, the Museum of Modern Art and the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum in Glasgow. In 2007 he was made a full member of the Royal Scottish Academy and is an Honorary Fellow of the GSA, the RIAS, an Honorary Member of the RGI and has Honorary Doctorates from the universities of Paisley, Glasgow, Aberdeen and Strathclyde.

It was by no means an overnight success for Byrne, he was making a living designing book covers for publishers Penguin before recognition, Byrne has also designed record covers for Donovan, The Beatles, Gerry Rafferty, Billy Connolly, and The Humblebums as well as illustrations for the renowned Scottish writer James Kelman.

As well as his artwork Byrne was an accomplished writer perhaps best known as the writer of The Slab Boys Trilogy of plays which explore working-class life in Scotland, and of the excellent TV dramas Tutti Frutti and Your Cheating Heart.

In 2018 Byrne was named Scotland’s most stylish man at the age of 78 at the Scottish Style Awards in Glasgow, beating Outlander star Sam Heughan to the coveted most stylish male title, which was previously won by Richard Jobson, Robert Carlyle, James McAvoy and Paolo Nutini. Byrne, a good friend of comic, Billy Connolly Byrne said at the time he was shocked at the award saying “I dress like a tramp”.

The highlights the quintessential Scottishness of Byrne’s work, and his enduring humour and his focus on the frailty of human experience often lived on the edge of working-class communities. It is a richly rewarding show which underscores r give John Byrne a rightful place as one of Scotland’s finest and most prolific artists.

His most recent work has been murals - one for the ceiling of the King's Theatre in Edinburgh and another in Glasgow to mark the 75th birthday of his friend Billy Connolly.

During lockdown he worked with Pitlochry Festival Theatre to create a new play which was produced and performed remotely.

He and his wife Jeanine also collaborated on a children's book, Donald and Benoit.

Everything he did was drenched in colour. Without him, the world feels a less colourful place.

John Byrne passed away on Thursday November 30th aged 83.

Everything he did was drenched in colour. Without him, Scotland and the world feels a less colourful place.

#scotland #scottish #history #artist #playwright #painter

[0nthebalcony]

Francis Bacon 1909 - 1992

Pope I (Study after Pope Innocent X by Diego Velázquez)

1951

Oil on canvas

H 197.8 x W 137.4 cm

Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museums

© The Estate of Francis Bacon. All rights reserved. DACS 2022. Photo credit: Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museums

#francis bacon #British Art 1945 - 1965 #aberdeen art gallery

[camillasgirl]

Queen Camilla opens the new 'Safe Space' during a visit to Aberdeen Art Gallery, as part of an initiative to provide help and guidance to people if they suspect someone is living with domestic abuse, 18.01.2024

#queen camilla #so good to see her

[royal-hair]

Queen Camilla of the United Kingdom opening the new "Safe Space" during a visit to Aberdeen Art Gallery in Aberdeen, Scotland - 18.01.24

#queen camilla #british royal family

[joyburble]

The thing I like about this outfit in the Human Realm is how classic it is.

Four visual elements: a white underlayer, a black satin robe, a belt, and a long, trailing gown, also black.

This look would be very close to wearable anywhere from Shanghai to Aberdeen pretty much anywhen in the two thousand years up to 1790, probably before, and to some extent beyond. The priesthoods of the Catholic and Orthodox churches still wear something not very dissimilar every day.

The point of luxurious cloth, heavily dyed deep black, worn with just a bit of visible white at the neck, and otherwise simple adornments, is to convey a balance of two contradictory things: (1) power/prestige/wealth/authority and (2) a factitious, formal modesty that says "too classy, cool or serious for colour". Either way, it's "don't mess with me", which is exactly what our character is saying here, totally out of his depth and being severely messed with.

All I really want to do here is have a little wander with you through the collections of the National Gallery and point to some examples from the history of Western painting. If you have the Chinese references, I would LOVE to see them! This will all be 16th and 17th century oil paintings, because that's where the good surviving stuff is for this particular visual trope.

The English art dealer George Gage and two attendants, painted by Anthony van Dyck in 1622-3:

The Spanish cleric, Don Justino de Neve, by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, 1665:

Actually, we could pop across the Channel to the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam and look at these two extremely solid Dutch citizens, painted by by Joos van Celve in 1518 and Maarten van Heemskerck in 1529 respectively:

And how could I ever forget the Nobleman with Hand on Heart, by El Greco, in the Prado of Madrid, about 1575-1580:

Actually, let's skip back for a moment to this rather lovely geometric and floral moonscape of a patterned robe and gown ensemble, which I don't have a lot to say about:

And then admire the splendid sleeve of Gerolamo Barbarigo, by Titian, 1510:

Finally, the classic luxury black with white linen glimpsed at the throat has always been at least potentially a unisex style, and so I cannot resist showing you Hans Holbein the Younger's absolute bombshell of a masterwork: Christina of Denmark, Duchess of Milan, 1538. A widow, fifteen years old.

Holbein was a truly wonderful painter and I especially admire his portraits of women (look at this one!) for the way he makes us look completely real, normal, subjective and autonomous and also incredibly sexy, although his portraits of men are occasionally just as stunning (Kunsthistoriches Museum, Vienna). Here, he has painted a dimple in the act of appearing, because he was just that good. This portrait is close to life-size, it's in the National Gallery in London and if you ever get the chance to stand in front of it, do.

The DFQC costumes master post is here.

#love between fairy and devil #cang lan jue #costumes #lbfad #cdrama #cdrama visual world #western art history