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The Inimitable Charles Dickens: 150 Year anniversary 

Charles Dickens, author, and social critic is one of the most well-loved authors in the world and the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. He has created some of the most iconic literary characters of all time and enjoyed unprecedented success during his own lifetime. His own rags to riches story inspired a lot of his work and contributed to the strong themes of social reform and philanthropy that run through his novels.

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Celebrating 100 Years since the Birth of BauhausWritten by

The year 2019 marks the 100th anniversary of the Bauhaus, a revolutionary art school started by the German architect Walter Gropius which, despite the fact that it was short-lived (1919-1933), would greatly influence the development of modern art and design. The artists associated with the Bauhaus (such as Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, and Laszlo Moholy-Nagy) sought to completely redefine art, by uniting different artistic disciplines and focusing on craft and functionality. These ideals were translated into colourful geometric abstraction and stripped-back designs. However, the School’s reimagining of the world did not stop at art: the Bauhaus designed for a new, modern kind of person. Through rare photographs from our archive, we find out more about the community at the Bauhaus and its vision for modern life.

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Chinese New Year 2019: The Pig

This coming Chinese New Year will take place starting on February 5th, 2019. This is the year of the Pig – the last sign before the cycle restarts next year. The festival is known as ‘Spring Festival’ in modern mainland China and is undoubtedly their biggest festival of the year, both traditionally and in terms of how widespread it is celebrated. The date has great importance worldwide as all cultures are involved in wishing each other good fortune and health for the year to come.

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Bridgeman Studio Award 2018….and the winners are….

Judging any competition where creativity is at this level is always a challenge. But it is a wonderful challenge that all the judges of the Bridgeman Studio Award 2018 relished through scintillating conversation and debate.

Now in its fifth year, the Bridgeman Studio Award 2018 attracted entries from every corner of the globe in almost every medium. Focusing primarily on artists, illustrators and fine art photographers the competition continuously attracts up and coming talent that always exceeds our expectations.

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Artist of the Day: Pierre Auguste Renoir (1841-1919)

Pierre-Auguste Renoir, commonly known as Auguste Renoir (25 February 1841 – 3 December 1919), was a French artist who was a leading painter in the development of the Impressionist style. As a celebrator of beauty and especially feminine sensuality, it has been said that "Renoir is the final representative of a tradition which runs directly from Rubens to Watteau." He was the father of actor Pierre Renoir (1885–1952), filmmaker Jean Renoir (1894–1979) and ceramic artist Claude Renoir (1901–1969). He was the grandfather of the filmmaker Claude Renoir (1913–1993), son of Pierre.

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Frightfully Fun ways to use images this Halloween

It’s that time of year again – the weather is getting colder, evenings are creeping in and we’re getting out our warm coats – Autumn is here, and with it comes Halloween!

This is a great time of year to look at some of the archive’s creepiest content – Witches, Vampires, Cats, Ghosts and more can all be found in abundance.

Join us as we spark life into some Halloween favourites, Frankenstein-style as we revisit a selection of seasonal staples to make the most of these creepy characters!

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Artist of the Day: Paul Klee (1879 - 1940) 

Paul Klee (18 December 1879 – 29 June 1940) was a Swiss German artist. His highly individual style was influenced by movements in art that included Expressionism, Cubism, and Surrealism. Klee was a natural draftsman who experimented with and eventually deeply explored color theory, writing about it extensively; his lectures Writings on Form and Design Theory (Schriften zur Form und Gestaltungslehre), published in English as the Paul Klee Notebooks, are held to be as important for modern art as Leonardo da Vinci's A Treatise on Painting for the Renaissance. He and his colleague, Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky, both taught at the Bauhaus school of art, design and architecture. His works reflect his dry humor and his sometimes childlike perspective, his personal moods and beliefs, and his musicality.

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Artist of the Day: Vicent Van Gogh (1853 – 1890)

Vincent Willem van Gogh (30 March 1853 – 29 July 1890) was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who is among the most famous and influential figures in the history of Western art. In just over a decade he created about 2,100 artworks, including around 860 oil paintings, most of them in the last two years of his life. They include landscapes, still lifes, portraits and self-portraits, and are characterised by bold colours and dramatic, impulsive and expressive brushwork that contributed to the foundations of modern art. His suicide at 37 followed years of mental illness and poverty.

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Artist of the Day: Claude Monet (1840-1926)

Oscar-Claude Monet (14 November 1840 – 5 December 1926) was a French painter, a founder of French Impressionist painting and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions before nature, especially as applied to plein air landscape painting. The term "Impressionism" is derived from the title of his painting Impression, soleil levant (Impression, Sunrise), which was exhibited in 1874 in the first of the independent exhibitions mounted by Monet and his associates as an alternative to the Salon de Paris.

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Artist of the Day: Stanley Spencer (1891-1959)

Sir Stanley Spencer CBE RA (30 June 1891 – 14 December 1959) was an English painter. Shortly after leaving the Slade School of Art, Spencer became well known for his paintings depicting Biblical scenes occurring as if in Cookham, the small village beside the River Thames where he was born and spent much of his life. Spencer referred to Cookham as "a village in Heaven" and in his biblical scenes, fellow-villagers are shown as their Gospel counterparts. 

Spencer was skilled at organising multi-figure compositions such as in his large paintings for the Sandham Memorial Chapel and the Shipbuilding on the Clyde series, the former being a First World War memorial while the latter was a commission for the War Artists' Advisory Committee during the Second World War.

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Artist of the Day: Lucian Freud 

‘The original, unnerving, sustained artistic achievement of Lucian Freud … had at its heart a wilful, restless personality, fired by his intelligence and attentiveness and his suspicion of method, never wanting to risk doing the same thing twice.’  - The Guardian

‘He succeeds in doing what very few artists have ever done – to somehow suggest the many layers of contradictory experiences and impulses that go into the make-up of a flawed, human, and highly complex man.’  - Richard Dorment, Daily Telegraph

‘Stark and revealing … recast the art of portraiture and offered a new approach to figurative art.’ - The New York Times

‘His charisma was crucial to his method. It was what made his model bear happily the long ordeal of sitting for him, and therefore what offered Freud the opportunity to observe his subjects at length – picking up on every twitch of a facial muscle, every iteration of how a subcutaneous layer of thigh fat bulged through a sitter’s skin.’ - David Kemp, Vanity Fair

Enter the Lucian Freud competition to win a signed book, worth £395, covering all Lucian Freud’s work

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Artist of the Day: Sandra Lawrence 

Established as a glitteringly skillful realist painter, during a period when realism has been increasingly challenged by different varieties of figurative expressionism

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Artist of the Day: John Banting (1902-72)

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Artist of the Day: Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957) was an English writer, painter, and critic.

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#OnThisDay 19 Oct 2016 Yvette Chauviré, French ballerina, died at 99 

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Beautiful Bugs of Bridgeman

Love them or hate them, this is the time of year when bugs come out to play!

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WIN A SIGNED COPY OF THE NEW LUCIAN FREUD MONOGRAPH.

Bridgeman Images and Phaidon have teamed together to give one person an incredible opportunity to win a copy of the new Lucian Freud Monograph, signed by David Dawson and Martin Gayford.

To enter, simply find the 'image numbers' of seven Lucian Freud paintings, listed below, on the Bridgeman images website and you will be entered into the draw.

Enter Here: https://www.bridgemancompetition.com