Unusual gifts for little & teenage Londoners
Surprise the next generation of Londoners this Christmas with gifts inspired by their action-packed city
London children can't commute unless they have the right wheels. The school run is a rainbow of multi-coloured scooters and a brand new state of the art ride is a fail safe way to spoil little Londoners. And if you have a teen with a need for speed, the brand new electronic scooter (intended for adults; adored by adolescents) will be a winner.
Click here browse Micro Paul Cézanne is the founding forefather of 20th century modernism. His radical work broke free from the preoccupations 19th century art world, setting both Cubist and Fauvist principles in motion.
Cézanne's borrowed from his friends the Impressionists their bold colours, disregard for academic art and adoration of light. But his paintings are tighter, more solid and further into the realm of abstraction. "He is the father of us all", said both Matisse and Picasso.
It is surprising, given the weight of his influence and his genre-hopping, that there has never been an exhibition of his portraits in London. Next year, though, the National Gallery will bring together over 50 works for Cézanne Portraits.
This show will explore the way his techniques and figures changed over time, as well as Cézanne's emotional response to his sitters. "A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art," as the artist said himself.
These moving psychological studies range from Cézanne's remarkable portraits of his Uncle Dominique, dating from the 1860s, through to his final portraits of Vallier, who helped Cézanne in his garden and studio at Les Lauves, Aix-en-Provence, made shortly before the artist's death in 1906.
This promise to be a personal, revealing show. We very much look forward to it. online