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Modern Two houses the Paolozzi Gift, a collection of works by Sir Eduardo Paolozzi, given by the artist to the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in 1994. The gallery also contains a large collection of Dada and Surrealist art and literature, much of which was given by Gabrielle Keiller. Modern Two also houses temporary exhibitions. [6]
National Galleries Scotland: Modern (the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art) is part of National Galleries Scotland, which is based in Edinburgh, Scotland.The Modern houses the collection of modern and contemporary art dating from about 1900 to the present in two buildings, Modern One and Modern Two, that face each other on Belford Road to the west of the city centre.
In the Gallery's main ground floor rooms are displayed a number of major large-scale canvases such as Benjamin West's Alexander III of Scotland Rescued from the Fury of a Stag (1786), Rubens's The Feast of Herod (1633 or c.1637-38) and a pair of paintings by Titian, Diana and Actaeon and Diana and Callisto (purchased jointly with the National ...
In 1999, the SNGMA expanded with the opening of The Dean Gallery (now called Modern Two) in a former orphanage opposite the Gallery of Modern Art. [2] In 2012, National Galleries of Scotland underwent a rebranding exercise, and the National Gallery of Scotland building on The Mound was renamed the Scottish National Gallery to distinguish it ...
Scottish Borders: Peacock Visual Arts, Aberdeen: Aberdeen: Perth Museum and Art Gallery: Perth: Perth and Kinross: Pier Arts Centre: Stormness: Orkney: Playfair Project: Edinburgh: Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts: Glasgow: Royal Scottish Academy Building: The Mound: Edinburgh: Scottish Flair Victorian Art Gallery [1] Inverness ...
In June 2023, to promote his exhibition at the Gallery of Modern Art, artist Banksy declared that the statue was his "favourite work of art in the UK". [21] On 21 June, the Scottish climate change campaigning group This Is Rigged placed a cone with their logo on the statue, and invited Banksy to support their cause. [22]
Self portrait of George Jamesone, 1642 Rare example of pre-Reformation stained glass in the Magdalen Chapel, Edinburgh. Art in early modern Scotland includes all forms of artistic production within the modern borders of Scotland, between the adoption of the Renaissance in the early sixteenth century to the beginnings of the Enlightenment in the mid-eighteenth century.
The Dean Gallery houses the Gallery of Modern Art's collection of Dada and Surreal art. [46] The Talbot Rice Gallery houses both old masters and contemporary Scottish works. [47] Glasgow galleries include the Burrell Collection, housing the extensive and eclectic collection of art left to the city by shipping magnate Sir William Burrell.