This autumn sees a flurry of big names landing in London. From William Blake at Tate Britain to Lucian Freud at the Royal Academy, these are the shows to put in your diary for the winter season.
Rembrandt (1606–69) used light like no other artist. He was an alchemist, able to transform paint into glowing flesh. It is 350 years since Rembrandt’s death, but his paintings remain relevant and innovative. No one before or since has quite captured tenderness and drama in the way that he did and with such stubborn individuality. This exhibition promises to be a treat.
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As one of Britain's most famous cultural figures, William Blake is known as a prolific poet, a radical political thinker and a technically innovative visual artist. Yet in his lifetime, the father of the Romantic movement went widely unrecognised. In the largest exhibition of Blake's work since 2001, Tate Britain sheds some light on man behind the art.
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An exhibition of works by sculptor Anthony Gormley will open in September, spanning all 13 rooms of the Royal Academy’s Main Galleries. Gormley, who is best known for the Angel of the North, experiments with the industrial, the organic and with cutting edge technology, taking the human form as his starting point.
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Lucian Freud was a ruthless artist: his unflinching gaze, his analytic scrutiny of anatomy and psychology, and his 'purely autobiographical' approach to portraiture have earned him a callous reputation and worldwide recognition. In a world first, the Royal Academy of Arts brings together more than 50 paintings, prints and drawings in which the modern master turns his voyeuristic eye onto himself.
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Britain's most revered queen of optical experiences returns to London in October with her first major large-scale museum retrospective held in the UK in 16 years. Organised by the National Galleries of Scotland in partnership with the Hayward Gallery, this comprehensive exhibition charts the pivotal moments in Riley's prolific career, from her early monochrome paintings of the 1960s to recent large-scale wall paintings.
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This autumn visitors to the National Gallery will have the opportunity to see Gauguin’s works in an entirely new light. The first ever exhibition focusing solely on Gauguin’s portraits aims to highlight the latter part of the artist's career, from the mid-1880s to his death, highlighting his transition from Impressionism to Symbolism with approximately 50 works from collections all over the world.
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