Highlights
Eight Essentials to Know About Pierre Bonnard
Learn everything you need to know about this French painter
Ten Things to Learn About 100 Years of Dorothea Tanning
Discover the life and work of an artist who pushed the boundaries of surrealism
Introducing Kiluanji Kia Henda
Meet the Angolan artist working with photography, video and performance
Artists In the Collection
Saloua Raouda Choucair
Ai Weiwei
Andrea Fraser
William Blake
Art Terms
Find definitions of over 400 terms, including art movements, styles and techniques
See more Art TermsSurrealism
Surrealism was a movement which began in the 1920s of writers and artists (including Salvador Dalí and René Magritte), who experimented with ways of unleashing the subconscious
Identity politics
Identity politics is the term used to describe an anti-authoritarian political and cultural movement that gained prominence in the USA and Europe in the mid-1980s, asking questions about identity, repression, inequality and injustice and often focusing on the experience of marginalised groups
Impressionism
Impressionism developed in France in the nineteenth century and is based on the practice of painting out of doors and spontaneously ‘on the spot’ rather than in a studio from sketches. Main impressionist subjects were landscapes and scenes of everyday life
Pre-Raphaelite
The Pre-Raphaelites were a secret society of young artists (and one writer), founded in London in 1848. They were opposed to the Royal Academy’s promotion of the ideal as exemplified in the work of Raphael
Allegory
Allegory in art is when the subject of the artwork, or the various elements that form the composition, is used to symbolize a deeper moral or spiritual meaning such as life, death, love, virtue, justice etc.
Sculpture
Three-dimensional art made by one of four basic processes: carving, modelling, casting, constructing
Memento mori
A memento mori is an artwork designed to remind the viewer of their mortality and of the shortness and fragility of human life
Pop art
Pop art is an art movement that emerged in the 1950s and flourished in the 1960s in America and Britain, drawing inspiration from sources in popular and commercial culture such as advertising, Hollywood movies and pop music. Key pop artists include Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Richard Hamilton, Peter Blake and David Hockney
Afrofuturism
Afrofuturism is a cultural aesthetic that combines science-fiction, history and fantasy to explore the African-American experience and aims to connect those from the black diaspora with their forgotten African ancestry
Collage
Collage describes both the technique and the resulting work of art in which pieces of paper, photographs, fabric and other ephemera are arranged and stuck down onto a supporting surface
Art In The Collection
Parviz Tanavoli The Poet and the Beloved of the King
Billy Apple Relation of Aesthetic Choice to Life Activity (Function) of the Subject
Frances Hodgkins Loveday and Ann: Two Women with a Basket of Flowers
Emily Mary Osborn Nameless and Friendless. “The rich man’s wealth is his strong city, etc.” - Proverbs, x, 15
Videos
Roger Ballen: 'A good picture comes from nowhere'
The American artist is known for is stark black and white photographs
Why I Love: Jenny Holzer's Inflammatory Essays
Hear our staff talk about their favourite artworks
Lubaina Himid in Conversation
Watch Lubaina Himid in conversation with Tate Director Maria Balshaw
Alexis Hunter: 'We knew we were making history'
Discover the feminist artist Alexis Hunter
Be Inspired
The art of social change
Can art be a tool for good? Where do art and social action converge?
Colour and Shape
How is colour and shape used to create art? Discover colourful artworks and fun activities to use in your classroom
Artist Meets: BBZ x Abondance Matanda
Hear BBZ, a collective for queer people of colour, in discussion with the up and comer they most admire
Dig Deeper
Anni Albers: Weaving Magic
As a student at the Bauhaus in Germany in the early 1920s, Anni Albers found artistic freedom in the weaving ...
Painting the Global History of Art: Hale Woodruff’s The Art of the Negro
This paper shows how African American artist Hale Woodruff’s 1950–1 mural cycle The Art of the Negro depicts a transcultural ...
Portfolio: Rotimi Fani-Kayode – Desire In Exile
Rotimi Fani-Kayode arrived in Brighton aged 11 in 1966, having fled Nigeria’s civil war. After coming out as gay, he ...