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Festival of Britain
Festival of Britain. A large-scale celebration of British culture mounted in 1951; ostensibly it was meant to commemorate the centenary of the Great Exhibition (held in the Crystal Palace in Hyde Park, London), but in fact it was intended as ‘a tonic to the nation’ (the words of Sir ... Read more |
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Young Contemporaries
Young Contemporaries. Exhibition of works by British art students held in London since 1949 on a roughly annual basis (lack of funds or organization—they are generally arranged by the students themselves—has sometimes prevented the shows taking place). The first Young Contemporaries... Read more |
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Allied Artists Association
Allied Artists' Association (AAA). A society of British artists formed in 1908 by the critic Frank Rutter and artists in Sickert's circle for the purpose of organizing annual exhibitions in the jury-free manner of the French Salon des Indépendants. The association, which represented a reaction... Read more |
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Blue Rose
Blue Rose (Golubaya Roza). Group of Russian painters active in the first decade of the 20th century, named after an exhibition held in Moscow in 1907. Their acknowledged inspiration was Borisov-Musatov and their style was essentially Symbolist, although there was also influence from Fauvism and an... Read more |
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London Group
London Group. An exhibiting society of British artists formed in 1913 by an amalgamation of the Camden Town Group with several smaller groups and various individuals. The first president was Harold Gilman; apart from other ex-Camden Town Group artists, the strongest representation among the early... Read more |
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Salon de la Rose + Croix
Salon de la Rose + Croix. Art exhibition held annually in Paris from 1892 to 1897. It was organized by the Rosicrucians, an esoteric brotherhood (allegedly founded in the 15th century by one Christian Rosenkreuz) that in the late 19th century had close connections with the Symbolist movement. The... Read more |
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Theo van Rysselberghe
Rysselberghe, Théo van (1862–1926). Belgian painter, graphic artist, designer, and sculptor, born in Ghent. He studied at the Academies of Ghent and Brussels and during the 1880s and 1890s he travelled a great deal, visiting Africa and the Far East as well as various parts of Europe. In... Read more |
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Situation
Situation (in full, ‘Situation: An Exhibition of British Abstract Painting'). An exhibition staged in September 1960 at the Galleries of the Royal Society of British Artists, London, by a group of predominantly young British painters who were united by their admiration for American Abstract... Read more |
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Light unto the nations
...Land, is a limited exhibition containing four...quite obvious. The exhibition's major work...Till Oct. 15. A TRAVELING exhibition entitled...19th century French symbolist. In extravagantly...EXHIBITION of six young ... |
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Arts Guide
...first native-born British painter of influence...engravings, this exhibition highlights his...Wieringen. The exhibition also documents...Der Russische Symbolist.'' A retrospective...by the Russian Symbolist (1856-1910...Moscow in 1889 after ... |