LIGHT: Works from the Tate Collection
Working with a careful selection of artworks from the Tate collection in the UK based on the theme of light, this exhibition traces the original creativity of artists across two centuries, spanning from the end of the eighteenth century to the present day. Included are artists such as Joseph Mallord William Turner, 鈥渢he painter of light鈥� who was one of the leading British artists of the modern era, master landscape painter John Constable, Claude Monet and other French impressionist painters, L谩szl贸 Moholy-Nagy and Bauhaus artists who worked with light using the new technology of photography, and contemporary artists like Bridget Riley, James Turrell, and Olafur Eliasson. Bringing together about 120 works arranged into thematic sections that cross time and space this exhibition examines how artists across generations have been pre-occupied by the qualities and luminosity of light in all types of medium; ranging from painting, photography, sculpture, drawing, kinetic art, installation and the moving image.
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Working with a careful selection of artworks from the Tate collection in the UK based on the theme of light, this exhibition traces the original creativity of artists across two centuries, spanning from the end of the eighteenth century to the present day. Included are artists such as Joseph Mallord William Turner, 鈥渢he painter of light鈥� who was one of the leading British artists of the modern era, master landscape painter John Constable, Claude Monet and other French impressionist painters, L谩szl贸 Moholy-Nagy and Bauhaus artists who worked with light using the new technology of photography, and contemporary artists like Bridget Riley, James Turrell, and Olafur Eliasson. Bringing together about 120 works arranged into thematic sections that cross time and space this exhibition examines how artists across generations have been pre-occupied by the qualities and luminosity of light in all types of medium; ranging from painting, photography, sculpture, drawing, kinetic art, installation and the moving image.
Artists on show
- Alfred Sisley
- Anish Kapoor
- Armand Guillaumin
- Barnett Newman
- Bridget Riley
- Bruce Nauman
- Camille Pissarro
- Catherine Yass
- Claude Monet
- Dan Flavin
- David Batchelor
- Edmund Collein
- Edward Burne-Jones
- George Richmond
- Gerhard Richter
- György Kepes
- Iwao Yamawaki
- Jacob More
- James Abbott McNeill Whistler
- James Turrell
- John Brett
- John Constable
- John Everett Millais
- John Linnell the Elder
- John Martin
- John Young-Hunter
- Josef Albers
- Joseph Mallord William Turner
- Joseph Wright of Derby
- Julian Opie
- Kanbee Hanaya
- László Moholy-Nagy
- Liliane Lijn
- Lis Rhodes
- Luigi Veronesi
- Mark Rothko
- Olafur Eliasson
- Pae White
- Peter Sedgley
- Philip Wilson Steer
- Sir William Rothenstein
- Stefan Themerson
- Stephen Willats
- Vilhelm Hammershøi
- Wassily Kandinsky
- William Blake
- William Holman Hunt
- Yayoi Kusama
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