Scottish National Gallery

Van Gogh to Kandinsky: Symbolist Landscape in Europe 1880-1910

14 July – 14 October 2012

 

ncent van Gogh, The Sower, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (Vincent Van Gogh Foundation).

 

This is the only UK showing of this major international exhibition which is the first to explore the subject of Symbolism and landscape painting.

 

The show casts a light on a fascinating movement exploring dreams and visions, mysticism and poetry and the natural world. Featuring other-worldly subjects, this exhibition brings together major artists from 1880 to 1910, such as Paul Gauguin, Vincent van Gogh and Edvard Munch, alongside less well-known artists from Scandinavia and beyond, including Hammershøi, Gallen-Kallela and Khnopff.

 

Sponsored by BNY Mellon and supported by the Friends of the National Galleries of Scotland.

 

The Mound, EH2 2EL

0131 624 6200

www.nationalgalleries.org

 

Mon—Sun, 10—5pm (6pm during August, late opening until 7pm Thursdays)

Adult £10, concessions £7


 

Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art

Edvard Munch: Graphic Works from The Gundersen Collectio

2 August – 23 September 2012

 

Edvard Munch, The Scream − Courtesy the Gundersen Collection, © The Munch Museum/ The Munch - Ellingsen Group, BONO, Oslo/DACS, London 2012.

 

Norwegian artist Edvard Munch (1863-1944) is renowned for his preoccupation with universal emotions such as isolation, melancholy, anxiety and love. His graphic works are amongst his most arresting and poignant, and are celebrated worldwide for their technical mastery and visual intensity. This exhibition features an outstanding collection of fifty lithographs and woodcuts by Munch, on show for the first time in the UK. Including rare, hand-coloured versions of iconic images such as The Scream, Anxiety, and Madonna, the exhibition explores Munch’s rigorous experimentation as he revisited subjects to heighten their emotive impact.

 

Supported by Patrons of the National Galleries of Scotland.

 

The Mound, EH2 2EL

0131 624 6200

www.nationalgalleries.org

 

Mon—Sun, 10—5pm (6pm during August)

Adult £7, concessions £5

Events

3 August 2012
Picasso Through the Eyes of Lee Miller and Roland Penrose

12.45—1.45pm


 

17 August 2012
Whistler, Debussy and the Nocturne

12.45—1.30pm


Scottish National Gallery

Expanding Horizons: Giovanni Battista Lusieri and the Panoramic Landscape

30 June – 28 October 2012

 

Giovanni Battista Lusieri, A View of the Bay of Naples, Looking Southwest from the Pizzofalcone towards Capo di Posilippo, 1791 (detail). The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles.

 

The first ever show exclusively devoted to the stunningly beautiful work of Giovanni Battista Lusieri. Active in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, Lusieri specialised in broad panoramas and cityscapes, ancient buildings and monuments, and was considered the most skilful landscape painter of his day.

 

The Mound, EH2 2EL

0131 624 6200

www.nationalgalleries.org

 

Mon—Sun, 10—5pm (until 6pm during August, and until 7pm on Thurs)

Adult £7, concession £5