#scottish national gallery of modern art

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[baebeylik]

The White Drake. Joseph Crawhall. Scottish. 1895.

National Galleries of Scotland.

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Remedios Varo (1908-63) Encuentro, 1959 Oil on canvas.

[art-that-fucks-you-up-tournament]

SET FOUR - ROUND ONE - MATCH ONE

“There Will Be No Miracles Here” (2007-09 - Nathan Coley) / "Symphony of the Sixth Blast Furnace" (1979 - Evgeny Sedukhin)

THERE WILL BE NO MIRACLES HERE: This one’s a popular one. I’ve seen a lot of different pictures of it floating around online—these are just two of my favorites. It never fails to hit, though.

There will be no Miracles Here was (and possibly still is? I’m not sure if it’s still standing) a work of art that quoted, according to the National Galleries website, “a seventeenth-century royal proclamation made in a French town believed to have been the frequent site of miracles.” The site further says, “Coley’s practice is based in an interest in public space, and how systems of personal, social, religious and political belief structure our towns and cities, and thereby ourselves.”

It definitely makes me examine my social and political belief structure. Every time I see it I have to say the words slowly, feel them in my mouth: “There will be no miracles here.” It’s become, oddly enough, a litany for me. It’s a reminder, for me, that the only way out is through; that when I think I have no one else, I have myself. No one can save me but me. With every challenge I overcome, I say it to myself again: “There will be no miracles here.” It makes me feel scared and alone and proud to be alive, where I am. I’m here, in spite of the miracles, in spite of the lack of them. (@sherlockwatson)

SYMPHONY OF THE SIXTH BLAST FURNACE: The composition of the industrial machinery and the rays of artificial sun beaming through billowing steam set a glorious backdrop to the miniscule figures set in silhouette on the catwalks. Its as if this was painted just to remind you how small you are, set against the vastness of industry, and how beautiful it can be. (@lupinus-bicolor)

("There Will Be No Miracles Here" is an outdoor light installation by Scottish artist Nathan Coley. It is 6 m high and is on display at Scottish National Gallery Of Modern Art (Modern Two).

"Symphony of the Sixth Blast Furnace" is an oil on canvas painting by Soviet artist Evgeny Sedukhin.)

[scotianostra]

Scottish Playwright, writer and Artist John Patrick Byrne was on January 6th 1940 in Paisley.

John Byrne where he grew up in the Ferguslie Park housing scheme and was educated at the town’s St Mirin’s Academy before attending Glasgow School of Art, where he excelled. In his final year he was awarded the Bellahousten Award, the school’s most prestigious painting prize, and spent six months in Italy, returning a masterful and confident young artist. His work is held in major collections in Scotland and abroad.

Several of his paintings have hang in The Scottish National Portrait Gallery in Edinburgh, the Museum of Modern Art and the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum in Glasgow. In 2007 he was made a full member of the Royal Scottish Academy and is an Honorary Fellow of the GSA, the RIAS, an Honorary Member of the RGI and has Honorary Doctorates from the universities of Paisley, Glasgow, Aberdeen and Strathclyde.

It was by no means an overnight success for Byrne, he was making a living designing book covers for publishers Penguin before recognition, Byrne has also designed record covers for Donovan, The Beatles, Gerry Rafferty, Billy Connolly, and The Humblebums as well as illustrations for the renowned Scottish writer James Kelman.

As well as his artwork Byrne was an accomplished writer perhaps best known as the writer of The Slab Boys Trilogy of plays which explore working-class life in Scotland, and of the excellent TV dramas Tutti Frutti and Your Cheating Heart.

In 2018 Byrne was named Scotland’s most stylish man at the age of 78 at the Scottish Style Awards in Glasgow, beating Outlander star Sam Heughan to the coveted most stylish male title, which was previously won by Richard Jobson, Robert Carlyle, James McAvoy and Paolo Nutini. Byrne, a good friend of comic, Billy Connolly Byrne said at the time he was shocked at the award saying “I dress like a tramp”.

The highlights the quintessential Scottishness of Byrne’s work, and his enduring humour and his focus on the frailty of human experience often lived on the edge of working-class communities. It is a richly rewarding show which underscores r give John Byrne a rightful place as one of Scotland’s finest and most prolific artists.

His most recent work has been murals - one for the ceiling of the King's Theatre in Edinburgh and another in Glasgow to mark the 75th birthday of his friend Billy Connolly.

During lockdown he worked with Pitlochry Festival Theatre to create a new play which was produced and performed remotely.

He and his wife Jeanine also collaborated on a children's book, Donald and Benoit.

Everything he did was drenched in colour. Without him, the world feels a less colourful place.

John Byrne passed away on Thursday November 30th aged 83.

Everything he did was drenched in colour. Without him, Scotland and the world feels a less colourful place.

[yama-bato]

The Héré de Mallet

 Mackintosh watercolour 1925 Private Collection on loan to the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art

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Attribution: Agnes Miller Parker (Scottish, 1895-1980). The Challenge, 1934, wood engraving on paper, 14.20 x 16.40 cm (paper 17.80 x 21 cm). Collection of the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art @natgalleriessco. Thanks to @enchantedbooklet for the tip.

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Marion Adnams, Aftermath, 1946

© John Rooks

Scottish National Gallery Of Modern

Art

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Andy Warhol  (US, 1928 - 1987)

Trash cans, 1986. 4 gelatin silver print photographs, on paper and thread support: 69 x 54 cm

Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art exhibition

https://artblart.com/tag/andy-warhol-venus-in-shell/

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RAQIB SHAW, “Self-portrait with fireflies and faces”, 2016.

Acrylic liner, enamel and rhinestones on paper mounted on cardboard 81.00 x 61.00 x 7.00 cm (framed size)

Scottish National Gallery Of Modern Art

[mybeingthere]

ELIZABETH BLACKADDER - Flowers, Oil on canvas.

Dame Elizabeth Violet Blackadder, Mrs Houston, (born 1931) is a Scottish painter and printmaker. She is the first woman to be elected to both the Royal Scottish Academy and the Royal Academy.In 1962 she began teaching at Edinburgh College of Art where she continued until her retirement in 1986. 

Blackadder worked in a variety of media such as oil paints, watercolour, drawing and printmaking. In her still life paintings and drawings, she considers space between objects carefully. She also paints portraits and landscapes but her later work contains mainly her cats and flowers with extreme detail. Her work can be seen at the Tate Gallery, the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and has appeared on a series of Royal Mail stamps. Tate.

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Alan Davie (Scottish, 1920-2014), Lush Life No. 1, 1961. Oil on canvas, 213.00 x 173.00 cm; framed: 215.70 x 175.30 x 4.90 cm. (Source: Scottish National Gallery Of Modern Art)

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Margaret Thomas (1916–2016) Postcards and Flowers (National Galleries of Scotland, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art)

[scotianostra]

On March 21st 1859 The National Gallery of Scotland opened on The Mound in Edinburgh.

The observant of you out there will know that The National Galleries is my go to place for many of my the photographs I post here.

Nowadays The Nationnal Galleris of Scotland is the collective name given to four buildings the others are, Royal Scottish Academy Building which sits in front of the original building, The National Portrait Gallery at Queen Street, and The Gallery of Modern art at Belford Road.

To clarify the building that opened in 1859 is the one foreground in the fitst photo. The building was designed by William Henry Playfair and was completed in 1854 on land gifted by the City Council for the Board of Manufactures, an arm of the government at the time responsible for public works and improvements.

There are Ionic porticos on all four sides, but the grander are on the northern and southern aspects. Carefully hidden beneath is a subtle extension, built 1975-8, the windows of which can only just be seen from Waverley Bridge and incorporates Scotland's foremost collection of paintings, drawings and prints from the early Renaissance to the late 19th Century.

Importantly the gallery includes the national collection of Scottish works by artists Allan Ramsay , Henry Raeburn, David Wilkie and William McTaggart .

There is also the best collection of English and European masters outside London, including Constable, El Greco, Poussin, Raphael, Rembrandt, Reynolds, Rubens, Titian, Turner, van Dyck, Velazquez, Vermeer and the impressionists.

I love the fact that the entrance is to the galleries free, although occasionally special exhibitions do incur and an entrance fee. Thebuilding that opened on this day has only just completed a major refurb, with an excellent extra floor beeing added.

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Dean Village, Edinburgh

At the heart of the village is Well Court, the most iconic building in the village. This building was built in the 1880s and housed local workers who worked at the water mills. Just a short walk away, visitors can also browse exhibitions in the Dean Gallery and the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art.

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Ventoux Jean-Paul Riopelle (1923–2002) National Galleries of Scotland, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art