Tate

At Friday's Uniqlo Tate Lates, discover pop-up talks, playful artistic activations and hands-on workshops, plus £10 exhibitions and a free film screening of Invernomuto's Negus.
Or simply enjoy the space, the music and the views...

Edward Burne-Jones was born on this day in 1833. One of the last and most significant Pre-Raphaelites, the artist brought imaginary worlds to life in awe-inspiring paintings, stained glass windows and tapestries.
In October 2018 Tate Britain will open a major exhibition, charting Burne-Jones's rise from an outsider with little formal art training to one of the most influential British artists of the late 19th century. http://bit.ly/2wqTpVH

Art Words: A diptych is an artwork consisting of two panels, attached or presented together.
Look closely at Sharon Lockhart's diptych. Both characters in the photographs appear life-like, but the child is in fact a sculptural element in an artwork by the American hyper-realist sculptor Duane Hanson. The life-size sculpture represents Hanson’s daughter Maja wearing a pink sundress. The figure was cast from life and meticulously constructed in polyvinyl. http://bit.ly/2wnVCRJ

'My aim was to produce a picture that held a moment in time, but unlike a photograph, I thought a painting could give a more universal meaning to that moment by composing one instant from lots of different unrelated ones' - David Inshaw
Happy bank holiday!
David Inshaw, The Badminton Game 1972–3 http://bit.ly/2PxW1tl

Zanele Muholi was born in 1972 in Umlazi, South Africa. Self-identifying as a visual activist, Muholi’s development as a photographer is deeply intertwined with her advocacy on behalf of the LGBTIQ+ community in South Africa and beyond.
This is one of six prints in Tate’s collection from the artist’s series Only Half the Picture 2003–6. Muholi has led the way for other young women photographers working in Africa to challenge the way in which the black female body has been presented historically in documentary photography. http://bit.ly/2wohNqW

It's National Dog Day! Do share your favourite companions with us on this special day! 🐶
Briton Riviere, Sympathy c.1878, Tate collection https://bit.ly/2Mr8HUu

Canadian painter Elizabeth Forbes was inspired by Impressionism to paint everyday scenes outdoors. http://bit.ly/2wqyEcq
The artist was extremely hard-working and prolific in her lifetime. As well as showing her work in galleries around London, she also raised a son, taught classes, wrote poetry and edited a magazine. The artist died in 1912 at the age of 53.

Eine Kleine Nachtmusik is one of the best known of Dorothea Tanning’s early paintings. It shows what appears to be a hotel corridor with numbered doors, the farthest of which is open just enough to offer a glimpse of light. ‘It’s about confrontation.' Tanning has said. She saw the sunflower as ‘a symbol of all the things that youth has to face and to deal with.' 🌻
The first major retrospective of Tanning’s work in the UK since her death in 2012 at aged 101, comes to Tate Modern in 2019. http://bit.ly/2wqLMhO

LAST CHANCE: The EY Exhibition: Picasso 1932 is open until 10pm on the following days for any last-minute visitors: 26, 27 & 31 August and 1, 2, 6, 7, 8 & 9 September 🎨 http://bit.ly/2PxMfrt
The EY Exhibition: Picasso 1932 is part of The EY Tate Arts Partnership. Pablo Picasso, Nude, Green Leaves and Bust (Femme nue, fueilles at buste) 1932, Private collection © Succession Picasso/DACS, London 2018

Feel like Alice in Wonderland in Robert Therrien's free ARTIST ROOMS display at Tate Modern. Therrien transforms our relationship with our surroundings by adjusting the scale of familiar objects. The display encourages a childlike perspective on an adult world. http://bit.ly/2wl9s7n
Robert Therrien, No Title (Table and Four Chairs) 2003, Tate / National Galleries of Scotland

Tate Weather can see the clouds rolling in – just in time for the bank holiday weekend! How will you be brightening up yours?
Victor Pasmore, Spiral Motif in Green, Violet, Blue and Gold: The Coast of the Inland Sea 1950, on free display at Tate St. Ives http://bit.ly/2MqfA9o

BSL TOUR: Join us for a free British Sign Language Tour of Magic Realism: Art in Weimar Germany 1919-1933, Tate Modern's new display. 7 September at 7pm: https://bit.ly/2MyKb3A

ART WORDS: Clive Bell’s theory of significant form was explained in his book 'Art' published in 1914. He begins with: 'What quality is shared by all objects that provoke our aesthetic emotions?’ The answer, according to Bell, is ‘significant form’ which he goes on to loosely describe as: ‘lines and colours combined in a particular way, which stir an aesthetic emotion’. He believes this emotion is independent of other kinds of human emotions. http://bit.ly/2MKWyqk
Roger Fry, River with Poplars c.1912, Tate collection

How vivid are your memories?
Tim Mara, The Stage and Television Today 1975, Tate collection http://bit.ly/2BdnLR8

WORK OF THE WEEK: Fionnuala Boyd and Leslie Evans took 20,000 photographs to use as a basis for their joint paintings. In The Wall, the man in the red cap was photographed in a café in Indiana whilst the woman was in a museum in Cologne one year later.
The artists described their process: 'We would spend weeks looking at slides and we would reject large numbers, ‘That's interesting, that's not interesting’, then we would start saying, ‘What about this with that?’ We've got a figure here or a landscape there or two people that might fit together in a way that would be consistent with this kind of idea...' http://bit.ly/2Ox8vA8

Discover iconic works from the 16th century to today at Tate Britain this long weekend, including works by JMW Turner, Barbara Hepworth, David Hockney and Bridget Riley. http://bit.ly/2N7ZzBg
Visit us and British Museum, National Gallery, National Portrait Gallery and Victoria and Albert Museum, all with free entry.

Egon Schiele, Standing male figure (self-portrait) 1914, on display at Tate Liverpool until 23 September 2018

Clausen's work is an example of rural naturalism – a 19th century painting movement characterised by scenes of rural life painted realistically. During the 1890s, the artist developed a more fluent style, showing an interest in figurative expression and movement. The delicate play of light across the model’s features, together with the flicked brushwork in the background, suggest both the freshness and transience of youth.
Sir George Clausen, 'Brown Eyes' 1891, Tate collection http://bit.ly/2PnhMw7