by walklondonadming | Mar 11, 2020 | Art & Design Tours Courses, Walking tours
One thinks about the French Impressionist movement as having its genesis in Paris in the mid 1870s. However artists such as Monet and Pissarro had begun developing their style earlier after being forced into exile during the Franco Prussian War of 1870-71. While here...
by walklondonadming | Aug 7, 2019 | Art & Design Tours Courses, Walking tours
There are over 6 million artefacts in the possession of the British Museum with approximately 60,000 on display at any one time. Where to start? Let Michael take you on a 2 hour tour of this wonderful museum visiting the ‘must-sees’ including the Rosetta Stone,...
by walklondonadming | Aug 7, 2019 | Art & Design Tours Courses, Walking tours
Why not combine any two museums/galleries in this 4-hour highlights tour? All major museums and galleries are open to the public free of charge, but the choice of what to see can be overwhelming. Let Michael take the strain out of selecting what to see,...
by walklondonadming | Aug 20, 2019 | Art & Design Tours Courses
Roger Fry introduced London to the work of the Post Impressionists such as Cezanne and Van Gogh at an exhibition in 1910 when, according to the writer Virginia Woolf ‘human nature changed’ She was referring to the changes in society with the advent of new technologies...
by walklondonadming | Aug 20, 2019 | Art & Design Tours Courses
As England began to embrace the Impressionism of artists such as Manet, Degas and Whistler, a group of painters around the circle of Walter Sickert, worked closely in the early years of the twentieth century to produce a painterly style of English Modernism that...
by walklondonadming | Aug 20, 2019 | Art & Design Tours Courses
The tour is based around two different groups of artists living in that area in the late nineteenth century. Beginning with a visit to Leighton House to see the home and studio of the former President of the Royal Academy, we will then walk this area of conservative...
