Singer Sargent’s evocative canvas turns a sweet, ordinary scene into a symphony of shapes and colors.
Location: Tate
Everyone wanted to have a look at the cast of characters Frith created—their variety provides the modern viewer with a fascinating glimpse into Victorian life.
William Powell Frith, Derby Day
Like a disaster movie, Turner’s painting transforms a natural catastrophe — with death a near-certainty — into entertainment.
J.M.W. Turner, Snow Storm
Sheltered by the sea, a study in place and feeling
Sheltered by the sea, Barbara Hepworth’s Pelagos
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What might Shonibare wish to communicate by bringing together these “African” textiles with Fragonard’s Rococo images?
Yinka Shonibare, The Swing (After Fragonard)
Can color just be color, rather than representing something else? Step into Mondrian’s studio to find out.
TateShots: Piet Mondrian
In this tragic painting, Rossetti draws a comparison between himself and the medieval poet who shared his name.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Beata Beatrix
Serious Art or a jungle gym? Morris shows us that art can be experienced bodily, and Minimalism can be fun.
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Fancy a trip to Tate Britain? Visit the largest collection of work by Turner anywhere—no passport required.
J.M.W. Turner at Tate Britain
Fuseli’s fairies resist his era’s embrace of the rational in favor of the emotive and fantastic.
Henry Fuseli, Titania and Bottom
An epic showdown between man’s moralizing musculature and serpentine sin.
Sir Frederic Leighton, An Athlete Wrestling with ...
Freud’s nude isn’t the idealized, horizontal beauty of previous centuries, but a forthright, vertical one.
Lucian Freud, Standing by the Rags
Warhol used a quasi-mechanical process of silkscreen to reproduce Marilyn Monroe’s familiar face again and again.
Andy Warhol, Marilyn Diptych
At first glance this may seem to be an uncomposed snapshot of modern life. Think again.
Jeff Wall, A View from an Apartment
This British-born Nigerian artist brings a Rococo painting into three dimensions, changing some critical details.
Yinka Shonibare, The Swing (After Fragonard)
Motherhood is explored and documented—but not sugarcoated—in Kelly’s five-year-long project.
Mary Kelly, Post-Partum Document
Inspired by a campaign to raise the age of consent, Watts harked back to the Athenian version of the Hunger Games.
George Frederic Watts, The Minotaur
Removing nearly all references to myth, Leighton focuses on the beauty of the nude and harmonious colors.
Sir Frederic Leighton, Bath of Psyche
Cursed by a spell that will kill her if she leaves her castle, this romantic redhead takes a fatal boat ride.
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