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MAKING FACES Supported at the National Gallery by the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation and the Bernard Sunley Foundation. The eagerly awaited touring exhibition Making Faces opens at the National Gallery in July, following on from the success it has enjoyed at the Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery and the Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne. This is the third in the National Gallery's highly successful series of touring exhibitions organised in collaboration with their regional partners.
The exhibition includes single heads of great individuality such as Hogarth's wonderfully vivacious The Shrimp Girl and Goya's splendid Doña Isabel de Porcel, both from the National Gallery. It also shows crowded scenes of carefully distinguished facial types such as the teeming cross-section of London life shown in George Elgar Hick's popular Victorian masterpiece The General Post Office: One minute to Six (Museum of London). The show culminates with a selection of narrative paintings that use faces to intensely expressive ends including Rembrandt's eye-popping tour de force, Belshazzar's Feast (National Gallery) and Francis Bacon's stooped and screaming Figure Study II (Batley Art Gallery, Huddersfield). Supported by generous grants from the Heritage Lottery Fund and the Esmée Fairburn Foundation, the Touring Partnerships exhibitions allow masterpieces from the National Gallery, accompanied by important loans, to be shown outside London and have proved exceptionally popular. In 2003 Paradise was seen by over 300,000 visitors at the three venues.
========================================================== Now Open: Russian landscape in the age of Tolstoy 23 June - 12 September Half price tickets Wednesdays 6-9pm plus live music & bar http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/exhibitions/russian_landscape/default.htm |
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