DriveByCuriosity: Contemporary Art: Overwhelmed From The Summer Exhibition @ Royal Academy Of Arts London

Monday, July 29, 2019

Contemporary Art: Overwhelmed From The Summer Exhibition @ Royal Academy Of Arts London

(Drivebycuriosity) - My wife and I are back from London, where we stayed 6 weeks. The metropolis had so much to discover. A visit @ the Royal Academy of Arts belonged to the highlights (royalacademy). They showed their 251st Summer Exhibition (running since 1768). More than 1,500 art works were on display. I was overwhelmed by the sheer quantity, quality & variety of styles & ideas.

The show attracted of course a cool crowd which made the event even more interesting. In the moment of writing there are still many art works on sale online (artworks). I can display here just a fraction of the works I liked here, a very small & subjective selection as usual.

Above you can see 2 paintings by Dame Paula Rego: "Agony in the Garden" & "Deposition".

Above Ben Johnson`s "The Space between revisited" & Jock MFadye`s "Mallaig".

"The Dream of the Pearl Diver`s Widow" by Zatorski + Zatorski.

Tristan Reid `s "Japanese Town" & Anthony Eaton`s "Horse on Piano"

Above 2 paintings by John Wragg: "Nervous Girl" & "Perfume"

John Keane`s Despocracy IV" & Cherry Pickles`s "Centre Stage, Self Portait as Harvey Weinstein"

Marcus Harvey`s "The Victory" & Lee Madgwick`s "The Clearing"

Emily Allchurch`s "Babylon Britain (After Verhaecht)"

Marguerite Horner`s "Tossed by the Wind" followed by Michael Porter`s "Vanitas Series 25-07-17" & Jock McFadyen`s "Poor Mother".

JenniferMcRae`s Picknic of Lies & Anselm Kiefer`s "Fünf Jahre lebte Vainamoinen auf der unbekannten Insel auf dem baumlosen Land" & Melisssa Kime`s "Superman has delivered".