The 20th-century ballet revolution
20th century ballet was born in St Petersburg, from a group of artists who were disenchanted with the arts scene in Russia. They included the painters Leon Bakst and Alexandre Benois, Serge Diaghilev, who had won fame for organising exhibitions of Russian paintings in Paris, and the choreographer Michael Fokine, who had become disaffected with the conservative, traditional ballets of Petipa.
Interview with Neil Bottle, textile designer & printer
Neil Bottle graduated from Middlesex University in 1989 and went on to win the Painters Stainers award for printed textiles at The New Designers Exhibition and was also awarded a Crafts Council setting up grant.
Touring exhibition: Constable: Oil Sketches from the V&A
The exhibition explores the later works of John Constable, Britain's best-loved landscape painter, and showcases some of the finest paintings from the V&A's world-renowned Constable collection.
Room 104b: Designing
Stage models, sketches and paintings explain the role of the designer and their processes. On show are one of the earliest surviving set models from 1793 for a production of 'The Wonders of Derbyshire' by landscape painter Philip James de Loutherbourg.
British watercolours 1750-1900: architecture as subject
Architectural topography had its roots in the antiquarian study of buildings of historical interest. A number of architectural painters were in fact first trained as architects but their carefully delineated views increasingly found a wider market among those curious about places unknown to them, or those who enjoyed the already familiar and well loved.
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