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We are the National Galleries of Scotland and our three Edinburgh galleries are the National, Modern and Portrait. We house and look after Scotland’s amazing world-class art collection. Step inside and discover international masterpieces from Botticelli and Titian to the very best modern art and contemporary portraits of pop culture icons. And, as you’d expect, the world’s best collection of Scottish art.
We’re a space for thinking, dreaming, doing and playing. Soak up the art. Meet friends in the cafés. Have a family picnic around the sculptures in the Modern grounds. Watch our amazing art films. Choose your own experience. There is no one way to enjoy Scotland’s national collection.
We’re a space for thinking, dreaming, doing and playing. Soak up the art. Meet friends in the cafés. Have a family picnic around the sculptures in the Modern grounds. Watch our amazing art films. Choose your own experience. There is no one way to enjoy Scotland’s national collection.
How Artists Respond to Conflict
The true power of art that grapples with conflict is ultimately its ability to explore the otherwise unexplorable, providing an outlet for experiences, a way of working through issues. In this video, we explore the ways that artists have depicted warfare and conflicts throughout history - and as warfare and conflicts change and evolve, how too has the art created alongside it?
Alongside war photographer Lee Miller artists explored include Don McCullin, Claude Cahun, Everlyn Nicodemus, Jenny Saville, Benno Schotz and Robert Henderson Blyth.
This film is part of a new series The Art of Discomfort which looks at how artists explore or present challenging themes in their work.
Produced by National Galleries of Scotland and HeeHaw
Special thanks to: Antony Penrose
Editorial note:
Our colleagues name is correctly spelt Kirstie Meehan
Alongside war photographer Lee Miller artists explored include Don McCullin, Claude Cahun, Everlyn Nicodemus, Jenny Saville, Benno Schotz and Robert Henderson Blyth.
This film is part of a new series The Art of Discomfort which looks at how artists explore or present challenging themes in their work.
Produced by National Galleries of Scotland and HeeHaw
Special thanks to: Antony Penrose
Editorial note:
Our colleagues name is correctly spelt Kirstie Meehan
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Taking inspiration from mid 1800s photography | Sara Sheridan | Perspectives
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In this episode of Perspectives, writer and activist Sara Sheridan, joins Grainne Rice, in front of a photograph by Hill and Adamson at the National Galleries of Scotland that caught her eye. This is one of many conversations, offering fresh perspectives on artworks in our galleries. Brilliant creative thinkers choose a work they love and share their way of seeing art and our world. Sara Sherid...
How Artists Respond to Class
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There’s this series of engravings by William Hogarth, depicting a young man who comes into an inherited fortune - think Pip from Great Expectations - innocently gazing around the townhouse of his tight-fisted father. Hogarth's work so often comments on the trappings of class and he was only one of many artists throughout history that used art to criticise and even break down barriers in society...
Do Ho Suh, Tracing Time
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‘Drawing is the perfect tool for me to flesh out crazy ideas…’ An animated response to the sketchbooks of one of the world’s leading contemporary artists, Do Ho Suh. Born in South Korea, Do Ho Suh spent decades working in New York, before moving to London. His work asks questions about the meaning of home and identity: what do we carry with us as we move around the world? Every artwork in Suh’s...
Karine Polwart explores the connection between art, language, poetry and song.
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In this episode of Perspectives, singer songwriter Karine Polwart, joins Greag Mac a'tSaoir, in front of a map of Scotland like no other, The Hidden Place by Thomas A. Clark. This is one of many conversations, offering fresh perspectives on artworks in our galleries. Brilliant creative thinkers choose a work they love and share their way of seeing art and our world. As a singer, songwriter, com...
Graham McTavish and The Sailing of the Emigrant Ship | Perspectives
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In this episode of Perspectives, actor and author Graham McTavish, joins Robin Ballie, in front of an artwork at the National Galleries of Scotland that caught his eye - The Sailing of the Emigrant Ship by William McTaggart. This is one of many conversations, offering fresh perspectives on artworks in our galleries. Brilliant creative thinkers choose a work they love and share their way of seei...
Richard Long's A Line Made by Walking | Amanda Thomson | Perspectives
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In this episode of Perspectives, artist, writer and lecturer Amanda Thomson joins Stephanie Straine, in front of an artwork at the National Galleries of Scotland that caught her eye - A Line Made by Walking, by Richard Long (1967). This is one of many conversations, offering fresh perspectives on artworks in our galleries. Brilliant creative thinkers choose a work they love and share their way ...
Printmaking Techniques & Processes: Screenprinting
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Screenprinting is a technique of producing prints by pushing ink through a fine mesh which is stretched over an open frame. Christian Noelle Charles is an artist working between New York and Glasgow. In this video, filmed at Edinburgh Printmakers, Christian demonstrates how she makes her screenprints. This film was created to coincide with our exhibition 'The Printmaker’s Art | Rembrandt to Reg...
Printmaking Techniques & Processes: Etching
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Etching is a type of printmaking that uses incised lines on a metal plate to hold the ink that will form the image when printed, a technique known as ‘intaglio’ (meaning carved or incised in Italian). Artist Rachel Duckhouse works in Glasgow, and her work explores the connection between inner and outer worlds through imagined geometries, patterns, and places. Here, Rachel demonstrates how she c...
Printmaking Techniques & Processes: Linocut
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Linocut is a type of relief printmaking, first developed in the early 20th century. Artist Ade Adesina RSA works in Aberdeen, creating monumental prints using lino. Here, he demonstrates the process of creating his 2022 print 'Cradle' at Peacock Printmaking Workshop in Aberdeen. This film was created to coincide with our exhibition 'The Printmaker’s Art | Rembrandt to Rego' at the Royal Scottis...
How Artists Respond to Love
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Art, it turns out, is filled with love and heartbreak. The artistic process itself, most readily available to the artist, is often the means by which they deal with romantic turmoil. But why do they do it? Why expose oneself so fully to potential trauma? Let's take a look at the ways that artists have dealt with love over the years, in all, its ecstatic, often messy forms. This film is part of ...
Mary, Queen of Scots, embroidery and the language of power | Clare Hunter | Perspectives
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In this episode of Perspectives, author Clare Hunter, joins Kate Anderson, in front of an artwork at the National Galleries of Scotland that caught her eye - Mary, Queen of Scots, 1542 - 1587. Reigned 1542 - 1567, created about 1610 - 1615. This is one of many conversations, offering fresh perspectives on artworks in our galleries. Brilliant creative thinkers choose a work they love and share t...
Rachel Maclean on a 'profoundly weird' painting by Joseph Noel Paton | Perspectives
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Rachel Maclean on a 'profoundly weird' painting by Joseph Noel Paton | Perspectives
Outlander's John Bell discovers the work of a fellow Glasgow Boy | Perspectives
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Outlander's John Bell discovers the work of a fellow Glasgow Boy | Perspectives
How artists respond to the Climate Crisis
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How artists respond to the Climate Crisis
Pas Mèche as seen by a Musician/Composer | Francis Macdonald | Perspectives
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Pas Mèche as seen by a Musician/Composer | Francis Macdonald | Perspectives
Performing 'Service to Empire', by Maud Sulter
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Performing 'Service to Empire', by Maud Sulter
Alberta Whittle: accomplices in collaboration
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Alberta Whittle: accomplices in collaboration
A Taste for Impressionism | Modern French Art from Millet to Matisse
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A Taste for Impressionism | Modern French Art from Millet to Matisse
In Focus | A Hind's Daughter by Sir James Guthrie
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In Focus | A Hind's Daughter by Sir James Guthrie
In Focus | Wandering Shadows by Peter Graham
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In Focus | Wandering Shadows by Peter Graham
Who was Ann Forbes? Scotland's trailblazers, legends, creators and innovators
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Who was Ann Forbes? Scotland's trailblazers, legends, creators and innovators
The Queer Code: Secret Languages of LGBTQ+ Art
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The Queer Code: Secret Languages of LGBTQ Art
peacocks also historically symbolized vanity and pride
Motion Picture code sets
Here is a thing, one of my ancestors fought at Glen Shiel, on the Jacobite side, but he was Spanish. And possibly another irony is that I’m an Oginski ( through my Maternal side) and they were hetmen for the Kings of Poland & the Polish Lithuanian Confederation. The Family were made Dynastic Princes by the Holy Roman Emperor in the mid to late 1400’s. It can be a funny Old World,
Haaaaa y’all wild AF to believe this nonsense! King James was a so called Black man! Please understand this! m.ua-cam.com/video/buVRZitz8T0/v-deo.html
I was expecting Lord of the Rings and I got Pacific Rim. NOT a bad thing.
Good work❤
Brilliant video.
I've heard that some gay men and lesbians in the United States are going back to the world of secret codes and private parties because the official LGBTQXYZ establishment is run by straight people and homophobes. Lesbians don't want to go to a bar where a straight bloke in a dress will harass them and call them a TERF when they decline his advances.
Erhm... the definition of the polari word 'naff' is very incorrect. Its an abbreviation that meant straight men: Not Available For Fucking.
You went this whole fucking video and didn't mention trans people ONCE??? You mentioned gay men and lesbians during the holocaust, but didn't mention that trans people were the FIRST people targeted by the Nazis. Of course this was made by a bunch of brits. Terf island is a disgrace.
Trying to look up artist ‘Ty Erba’ ?? Don’t know how name is spelt
i never heard of lambda being used in science as energy. Usually it stands for wavelength
Please: "Simple women"? Please consider not using "simple" to describe anyone. It has a bad political history.
Why is Cahun referred to as “they” when apparently she consistently referred to herself in her writings as “she”? She’s not around to take on the recently adopted alternative pronouns so I don’t think it’s correct to posthumously assign them to her, even if she did claim to be “gender fluid”.
this is a great video
I went to the Do Ho Suh exhibition at Modern One, Edinburgh, yesterday... absolutely loved it particularly the large works incorporating coloured threads, and sketchbooks are always fascinating.
Wonder if Churchill or Stalin would've shot themselves in a bunker if they had lost the war
Lies!!!!
Miller sounds like she had a really interesting career as both a model and war photojournalist. am surprised that Vogue (?) published war stories...
Un mártir de su época no lo comprendido nunca
Bomboclaat
such a good video
Quiers
keep embracing 'seprate but equal' and call it progress.
I love Rachel
Me 2)
Can't believe I missed this. 😢
The thing i dont understand is what would stop a straight guy from unknowingly doing one of these? and if they knew not to, then it wouldnt be a secret code anymore. how would information of the code discreetly get around without straight people finding out?
Reminds me about the Italian comic RanXerox by Stefano Tamburini and Tanino Liberatore. A scene in the comic have the main character put a red handkerchief in his back pocket on a party. It was a reference to the handkerchief code or gay hanky code, where different colored handkerchiefs in the back pocket meant different gay preferences. I didn't know that before I read the comic, and the straight main character had no idea. Unfortunately for the gay persons who approached him and then touched him, he was also a very violent person, and it did not end well for them.
It would happen but its better than nothing
Wonderful film but the music is far too loud for anyone with hearing difficulties.
Animalistic behavior doesn't require a code to decipher.
Professor Briggs anyone?
I remember this exhibition at the SGMA in 2014. The paintings and the lives of the artists were very interesting indeed and I still have the book of the exhibition. The inclusion of the BBC Monitor documentary was a real plus.
I've been giving some bit of thought to the concept of the "queer aesthetic" of late, and I've come to an interesting notion. I think queer aesthetic is marked by an absence, rather than a presence. We don't always consciously realize how utterly pervasive the "straight" code is in art, how it influences so many aspects of our aesthetics, until some piece of it is removed, reversed, subverted, or otherwise shifted. And voila, there it is, the "queer aesthetic." I think this is why the queer aesthetic can appear even without the artist realizing, because the straight code is, by and large, entirely subconscious. And so queer artists might not even know when they've subverted it. Art is largely an expression of feeling. So what feels right to a queer artist isn't the same as what feels "normal" or whatever to a straight audience. Yet perhaps there's also something about the subtle subversion of the straight code that everyone connects to. It breaks through the mindless routine of social behaviors, and speaks to individuality. I think everyone, no matter how straight, feels oppressed by the limits straight identity. People aren't queer or straight first, we're ourselves first. So that's why I think a touch of queer aesthetic often speaks to straight people. It affords breathing room, where "straight" aesthetic tends to feel suffocating.
King Jimmy was a disgrace. His favorite sport was hunting down and killing Catholic Priests. He was a homosexual. He had no authority to make a translation of Sacred Scripture. He was arrogant. A usurper.
CGI doesn't even come close
Duchamp appropriated the urinal without crediting the original “creator”, his friend Elsa vov Freytag-Loringhoven , except for one letter to his sister. The incriminating evidence was later published by Duchamp’s biographer, Francis Naumann: “April II [1917] My dear Suzanne- impossible d’écrire. (in the Parisian French of 1917, this meant ‘nothing much to write about’, re Dr. Glynn Thompson.) - I heard from Crotti that you were working hard. Tell me what you are making and if it’s not too difficult to send. Perhaps, I could have a show of your work in the month of October or November-next-here. But tell me what you are making- Tell this detail to the family: The Independents have opened here with immense success. One of my female friends under a masculine pseudonym, Richard Mutt, sent in a porcelain urinal as a sculpture it was not at all indecent-no reason for refusing it. The committee has decided to refuse to show this thing. I have handed in my resignation and it will be a bit of gossip of some value in New York- I would like to have a special exhibition of the people who were refused at the Independents-but that would be a redundancy! And the urinal would have been lonely- See you soon, Affect. Marcel." read more-->legrady.com/writing/history.html
Not so much a 'code' of such , it's just people evolve their behavior to whatever environment they're in while using their imagination. On my way home I had sometimes parked at a viewpoint to admire the sunset, and was puzzled at first, seemed too coincidental that I would need to say "Sorry, I'm a straight" more than twice each time. Then one day I realised the decor of the maintained planted shrubs, all around the area were cactus plants of a phallic form and no other type.
he was a bawbag
I love his work. But. I don't really fancy the faces that keep popping up.
can anyone tell me what the trad tune being whistled throughout is? it's beautiful.
Another subtle hint would be a man sitting on the lap of another man.
This was a great interview. I appreciate this insightful topic about the use of Embroidery and textiles.
she rocks
"Promo SM" 😩
Is there any AI app I can use to create a text in cubism?
I JUST FOUND OUT THAT THIS MAN IS MY {GREAT x 12} GRANDFATHER!!!
wow😮😮😮 u have a royal blood
DADA was the beginning of the end of art. It has spiraled into garbage on all fronts. There is no more art.
I never knew one could buy green carnations of the peg.
It looked like they put a green carnation on the outfits. I dont think any of those pics originally had s carnation on it. They were all put in the pictures to make this video.
the photos were originally taken in black and white - they or someone else (possibly a victoriann with paint as was fairly common) have colorised the carnations - but there are several written records of green carnations!