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A quiet moment in dappled shade ⛅The way John Singer Sargent painted was so physical, people often said that he looked l...
16/04/2026

A quiet moment in dappled shade ⛅

The way John Singer Sargent painted was so physical, people often said that he looked like a fencer. His sweeping brushstrokes add movement to his paintings—in this work capturing the changing light on the stream and the fabric of his niece's floaty dress with thick, loosely handled paint. This painting, 'The Black Brook', was made in Aosta, northern Italy, around 1908. Sargent's niece, Rose-Marie Ormond, was the artist’s travel companion and one of his favourite subjects to paint.

🎨 John Singer Sargent, The Black Brook, c.1908. Tate Collection. Purchased 1935

‘Art is not about art. Art is about life.' - Louise Bourgeois 🕷️ Bourgeois often used spiders in her work, revealing her...
15/04/2026

‘Art is not about art. Art is about life.' - Louise Bourgeois 🕷️



Bourgeois often used spiders in her work, revealing her interest in the creature as an image of the mother: protector, creator and repairer. She said, 'The spider is a repairer. If you bash into the web of a spider, she doesn’t get mad. She weaves and repairs it.' Looking out across the River Thames in 2008, the artist's steel sculpture 'Maman' is a reminder of the strength, beauty and restorative power we all share. 🖤

🕷️ Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010), Maman, Tate Modern, 2008 © The Easton Foundation. Presented by the artist 2008. Tate Photography

Turner and Constable may now be closed, but we’re far from finished with Turner 😍 🎨You can still get your landscape fix ...
14/04/2026

Turner and Constable may now be closed, but we’re far from finished with Turner 😍 🎨

You can still get your landscape fix at Tate Britain, home to the world’s largest free display of Turner paintings! Here’s some of our favourites you can see. Do you have a fave? 🖼️ 👀

🏛️ Ancient Rome; Agrippina Landing with the Ashes of Germanicus
exhibited 1839
🎨 Shipping at the Mouth of the Thames, c.1806–7
⛵ A Disaster at Sea, c.1835
⛰️ Queen Mab’s Cave, exhibited 1846
🖼️ London from Greenwich Park, exhibited 1809
🌅 Sunrise, with a Boat between Headlands, c.1840–5
🌅 Regulus, 1828, reworked 1837
🎭 Venice, the Bridge of Sighs, exhibited 1840
🎨 Whalers (Boiling Blubber) Entangled in Flaw Ice, Endeavouring to Extricate Themselves, exhibited 1846
💀 The Fall of Anarchy, c.1833–4

Maybe you can live on the moon in the next century, by Fiona Rae ⭐ 🐼Rae’s energetic paintings, full of humour and comple...
12/04/2026

Maybe you can live on the moon in the next century, by Fiona Rae ⭐ 🐼

Rae’s energetic paintings, full of humour and complexity, seek to challenge modern conventions of painting. She does this with her references to popular culture and technology, often symbolised through fonts, small figures or cartoons. In this work, abstract marks are contrasted with painted hearts, stars and pandas. Set against a depthless black background that seems like a digital void, these elements are both playful and contradictory.
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🖼️ Fiona Rae, Maybe you can live on the moon in the next century, 2009 © Fiona Rae

To the moon and back 🌖 🌍🌙 Julius Olsson was best known for his delicate renderings of nighttime seascapes, captured off ...
11/04/2026

To the moon and back 🌖 🌍

🌙 Julius Olsson was best known for his delicate renderings of nighttime seascapes, captured off the northwest coast of Cornwall. Just out of frame, the moon delicately illuminates the scattered clouds in this painting. A pool of light is cast upon the ocean in the background, whilst in the foreground we see the moonlight catching the surf of the quietly breaking waves.

Olsson had a striking ability to render the shifting motion and colour of the sea on canvas. He said, 'for one whose heart draws him to the sea must have an exceptionally retentive memory, and be able to grasp in a few moments the effect of the ever-changing movements of the sea and sky.’

🌊 Julius Olsson, Moonlit Shore, first exhibited in 1911 at the Royal Academy. Tate Collection

Take in every detail of John Constable’s first ever ‘six-footer’, The White Horse. 🎨 🐴When the painting was first exhibi...
09/04/2026

Take in every detail of John Constable’s first ever ‘six-footer’, The White Horse. 🎨 🐴

When the painting was first exhibited in 1819, it prompted the first comparison between Constable and Turner. According to one reviewer, Constable’s White Horse had ‘none of the poetry of Nature like Mr. Turner, but … more of her portraiture’.

The painting also led to Constable’s election as an Associate Member of the Royal Academy (Turner had achieved this status some 20 years earlier.) This turning point in Constable’s career also drove a change in process. It was impractical to work on such a large canvas outdoors and instead, he composed the work in a full-sized sketch in his studio, combining smaller studies made at the scene.

There’s not long left to see Constable’s magnificent painting, on loan from The Frick Collection. Although tickets have sold out, Members still can enjoy free entry! No need to book, just turn up with your card. Turner and Constable at Tate Britain closes 12 April 2026. 🎟️ https://bit.ly/4nrVrfu

🖼️ John Constable, The White Horse, 1819. The Frick Collection, New York

06/04/2026

How to make art that moves 🌀✨

Bright, looping and full of energy, Linda Bell’s large-scale sculptures are created from crinkly, swishy materials. Based in London, Bell works with texture and movement, exploring how artworks can be felt as much as seen. Her playful installations invite visitors to step in, interact and experience them together.

Bell is a deaf, Autistic and learning disabled artist, and her practice is supported by ActionSpace, which works with learning disabled artists across London.

Discover more artist films on Tate Kids, with videos, games, quizzes and free activities ✏️

Feeling inspired this Bank Holiday Monday? Head to Tate Modern for UNIQLO Tate Play: Linda Bell Loop. Swing. Shake. Remake and have a go at creating your own sculpture.

On until 12 April 2026. Entry is free 🏭

🌳 Patrick Symons was a keen botanist and painter, and this is reflected in the precision of his leafy paintings. He freq...
05/04/2026

🌳 Patrick Symons was a keen botanist and painter, and this is reflected in the precision of his leafy paintings. He frequently worked on one scene over a long period, creating a number of preparatory sketches.

This is one of an extended series of intensely observed depictions of Wimbledon Common, which he first painted in 1967. Symons described the clearing as 'the site of much activity', with walkers and horses regularly passing through. If you look closely you can just spot Symons, nestled and working beneath a tree. ​🔎
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​🎨 Patrick Symons, Oak Arch Grey (Wimbledon Common) 1977–81, Tate collection

04/04/2026

Step into Onyeka Igwe’s Art Now display, our generous mother ✨

We caught up with Onyeka Igwe as she shares more about the work, and takes us inside HS Design Studios Ltd where part of it was made.

Starting from the University of Ibadan, the work explores layered histories, from colonial beginnings to independence and beyond. As you move through the space, the film unfolds across sculpture, slide and large-scale projection. 🎞️

Free display at Tate Britain, on until 17 May 2026 📍

Art Now: Onyeka Igwe is supported by the Bukhman Foundation. With additional support from the Art Now Supporters Circle and Tate Americas Foundation.

'These flower paintings are remarkable for very lovely, pure, and yet unobtrusive colour - perfectly tender, and yet lus...
03/04/2026

'These flower paintings are remarkable for very lovely, pure, and yet unobtrusive colour - perfectly tender, and yet luscious...’ - John Ruskin 💐

In this painting we see wildflowers, grass mixed with thistles, cornflowers, celandine flowers, brambles, ivy and weeds growing on a bank near a cornfield. Overhead, a male Emperor dragonfly happily flies in the sky. A leading flower painter in Britain in the 19th century, # Martha Darley Mutrie perfectly captures a spring scene. 🐝

Mutrie was born in Ardwick, near Manchester, and trained with her sister at the Manchester School of Design and they both gained critical praise exhibiting floral works. Mutrie and her sister moved to London in 1854, where they carefully arranged and painted flowers together in their home. The quote above was written by a prominent art critic of the era, John Ruskin, clearly a fan of their florals. The sisters’ success as working women artists was rare at a time when men dominated painting.

🖼️ Martha Darley Mutrie, Wild Flowers at the Corner of a Cornfield (c.1855–60)

What can you see in this painting? 👀 🐘A primary pioneer of the Dada movement and surrealism in Europe, Max Ernst was bor...
02/04/2026

What can you see in this painting? 👀 🐘

A primary pioneer of the Dada movement and surrealism in Europe, Max Ernst was born on this day 1891. Painted in Cologne in 1921, Celebes was Max Ernst's first large picture. The rounded central shape in this surreal work derives from a photograph of a Sudanese corn-bin, which Ernst has transformed into a sinister mechanical monster. Ernst often re-used found images, and either added or removed elements in order to create new realities, all the more disturbing for being drawn from the known world.

The work’s title comes from a childish German rhyme that begins: ‘The elephant from Celebes has sticky, yellow bottom grease’. The painting’s inexplicable combinations, such as the headless female figure and the elephant-like creature, suggest images from a dream and the Freudian technique of free association.

Discover Max Ernst's painting up-close in our free Tate Modern display, In the Studio: International Surrealism.

🎨 Max Ernst, Celebes, 1921 © ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2026

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