5 Big Art Exhibitions London
There are many exciting art exhibitions spanning different periods of art history to be seen this winter season in London. Here is a selection of 5 important ones not to be missed.
- Giacometti Pure Presence
15 October 2015 – 16 January 2016
This exhibition is the first to focus on Giacometti's portraiture and includes over sixty drawings sculptures and paintings.
- A Woman’s War
Until April 24 2016
Lee Miller is one of the most important war photographers of the 20th century. The exhibition includes art, objects and photographs that have not been available for public viewings previously.
- Drawing in Sliver: Leonardo to Jasper Johns
10 September 2015 – 6 December 2015
A unique opportunity to see around 100 drawings created by masters and contemporary artists using the delicate metalpoint technique, from Renaissance to the present time.
- Goya: The portraits
7 October 2015 – 10 January 2016
This exhibition presents Goya as a portraitist with 70 of the artist’s most outstanding works from public and private collections around the world, including paintings, drawings, and miniatures never-before-seen in London.
- Alexander Calder: Preforming Sculpture
11 November 2015 – 3 April 2016
This exhibition presents Calder's ‘ mobile sculptures. A pioneer of kinetic sculpture, bringing movement to static objects, Calder invented the mobile, a term used by Duchamp to describe his work.