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Our five favourite queer artworks currently on display at Tate Britain! 🏳️‍🌈 A huge thank you to our tour guide @jamie_windust . ✨ 🎨 1. Glyn Warren Philpot, Repose on the Flight into Egypt 1922 🎨 2. Gluck, Flora’s Cloak 1923 🎨 3. Duncan Grant, Bathing 1911 🎨 4. Rene Matić 🎨 5. Francis Bacon, Triptych August 1972 We have regular LGBTQIA+ art tours at Tate Britain, which offer a unique opportunity to experience the collection through the lens of gender identity and sexuality. ❤️

Was this painting made using magic? Is it the biggest canvas in the world? There’s only one way to find out. 🎨 🌍 We joined #TateKids as they asked some of our youngest visitors to describe what they saw when in front of Oscar Murillo’s giant painting ‘Manifestation’ at Tate Britain. 🏛️ ✨ 💡 How would you describe the artwork? Stay tuned for more #WhatDoYouSee !

✨ Open now ✨ YOKO ONO: MUSIC OF THE MIND at Tate Modern.   Yoko Ono is a trailblazer of early conceptual and participatory art, a celebrated musician, and a formidable campaigner for world peace. 📽️🕊️🌎 Spanning more than seven decades, delve into Ono’s powerful, participatory art in an exhibition that marks the key moments in her groundbreaking, influential and multidisciplinary career.   Until 1 September 2024. Members go free. ❤️

Happy birthday Dame Tracey Emin! 🎨 Emin has returned to painting and drawing throughout her career as a means of reconsidering her relationship with the medium. Through her work she often exposes aspects of her own, often intimate, experience in a way that is vulnerable and defiant at the same time. She does not shy away from difficult personal experiences, saying ‘Much of my work has been about memory... I’m trying to draw love, but love isn’t always gentle…' 🖌️ In this series she scrutinises her relationship with her own body, using drawing as a way of exploring the possibilities of self-representation and self-expression. There's an immediacy and looseness in the handling of the paint; the expressive lines and swift gestural marks depict a state of vulnerability. @TraceyEminStudio 🎨 Total Reverse, 2014 🖌️ I Could Feel You, 2014 🎨 Just Waiting, 2014 🖌️ On her Side, 2014 🎨 Stay Up, 2014 🖌️ All for You, 2014

‘Life becomes the vehicle you’re driving.’ - France-Lise McGurn 🚗 🎨 McGurn’s painting ‘Get in the Car’ was created for her solo exhibition at Tate Britain in 2019. McGurn has said that the title is a phrase her mother would use when commanding her five children on family outings. Here it references the priority shift that occurs with becoming a parent, having new responsibilities but also feeling fortified through building a family. In her work, McGurn uses swift brushstrokes and repeated marks to create loose associations about place and history. Figures and forms overlap and spill from the canvas onto the gallery walls, floors and ceilings as she draws from nostalgia, popular culture, sexuality, ecstasy, loss and consciousness. 🖌️ France-Lise McGurn, Get in the Car, 2019 © France-Lise McGurn

'I believe that colour possesses a strange magic: sad colours, joyous or calm colours... similar to the sensations of taste.' - Natalia Goncharova born #OnThisDay 1881. 🌷 During her dazzling, and sometimes controversial career, Natalia Goncharova (1881–1962) blazed a trail with her experiments in art and design. She created paintings, sculptures and religious series, refusing to let gender define her art. She was known as a ‘pioneer of everythingism’ – her work combined different techniques and styles including painting, print, theatre design (she made sets and costumes for the Ballets Russes), interior design and performance art. Goncharova also took part in avant-garde cinema, experimented with book designs and designed for fashion houses in Moscow and Paris. She also published zaum poetry, a type of sound poetry that used an invented language. She was one of the first women artists to become a leading avant-garde figure, involved in some of Russia’s cutting-edge art movements and exhibitions. She paraded the streets of Moscow displaying futurist body art and created monumental religious paintings. Along with her partner, artist Mikhail Larionov, she founded radical artist groups including the Jack of Diamonds, Donkey’s Tail and Target. Goncharova also helped develop a new abstract art movement. Called rayonism or rayism, the style was based on the effect of reflected light on surfaces. She also helped develop a style of painting that combined Western modernism with traditional Russian folk-art forms which would go on to influence the art movements of the 20th century. Find Goncharova's paintings 'Gardening' and 'Linen' on free display at Tate Modern. 🏭 🌷 Gardening (detail), 1908 © Estate of Natalia Goncharova ☕ Linen, 1913 © Estate of Natalia Goncharova 📷 Natalia Goncharova in San Sebastián, 1916, State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

#GetToKnow Greek artist Vlassis Caniaris (1928–2011) 🧺   Considered one of the leading artists of Greek modernism, he used everyday objects to explore themes of migration and displacement. Caniaris breathed life into newspapers, suitcases, and even his family’s old clothes.   These familiar items became windows into the lives of migrant workers in the 1970s, telling stories of hope, struggle and new beginnings, reminding us that art can reflect the human experience, using the simplest of objects to tell the most complex of stories.   See his work in our free Tate Modern display, Artist and Society. 🏭 Vlassis Caniaris, Possible Background, 1971. Presented as part of the D.Daskalopoulos Collection Gift 2023

Time for an afternoon cuppa? ☕ #WorkOfTheWeek is Ethel Sands’s vibrant painting of the artist's two lifelong friends, painters Walter Sickert and Nan Hudson. As three teas brew, it seems that Sands has left her armchair to capture the moment. 🖌️ 🛋️ Ethel Sands, Tea with Sickert, 1911-12 © The estate of Ethel Sands. On display in our Tate Britain exhibition, #NowYouSeeUs

New month, nouveau style 💅 #ArtNouveau is an international architecture and design style that emerged in the 1890s and is characterised by dynamic, flowing lines inspired by plants. 🌿 The style aimed to break down the distinction between fine arts and applied arts and was used widely in interior design, furniture, textiles, ceramics and jewellery. You may have seen examples of art nouveau in the Paris Metro station entrances by Hector Guimard and Tiffany glass lamps. #AubreyBeardsley’s iconic book designs are another great example. This is the illustration for the inside of a title page that he designed for a book of John Davidson’s plays, which shows caricatures of notable figures of the day, including Oscar Wilde depicted as Bacchus (the Roman god of agriculture, wine and fertility) with a headpiece of vine leaves and grapes. 🍇 📜 Aubrey Beardsley, Design for the Frontispiece to John Davidson’s Plays, 1894. On free display at Tate Britain.

'Ambivalence. Tenderness. Accusations. Invitations ... I wanted you to fall in love with them.' - Phil Collins 📷 Phil Collins took this series of photographs of young people living in Belgrade shortly after the democratic revolution of 5th October 2000, when mass demonstrations overthrew the regime of communist leader Slobodan Milosovic. They are all people that Collins knew well, photographed close up as they lay on grass. He wanted to challenge how people are traditionally photographed in war-torn zones, as well as to capture the sense of disillusionment he felt from the young people whose formative years had been disrupted by conflict. Collins says, ‘I wanted to create an intimate situation (for when else do we see someone lying down?) because intimacy ... was one of those values denied by reportage.' ☀️ young serbs (caca) 2001 🌿 young serbs (milan) 2001 ☀️ young serbs (siniša) 2001 🌿 young serbs (bojan) 2001 ☀️ young serbs (vesna) 2001

‘At Ease As The Day Breaks Beside Its Erasure And At Pains To Temper The Light At Liberty Like The Owl When The Need Comes Knocking To Fly In League With The Night.’ – Lynette Yiadom-Boakye 📜 🪶 Yiadom-Boakye’s painting ‘Razorbill’ shows a single female figure, her mouth open, as though caught mid-speech or song. Inspired by her fascination with the history of figurative painting, Yiadom-Boakye creates textured and complex personalities, familiar and yet dreamlike. Painted in spontaneous and instinctive bursts, her poetic portraits reveal expressive brushstrokes and a distinctive, dramatic palette. The characters Lynette Yiadom-Boakye portrays are imaginary, not based on any particular person. She constructs deliberately ambiguous scenes for them, encouraging us to project our own meaning on to the work. 🎨 Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, Razorbill, 2020 © Lynette Yiadom-Boakye. On free display at Tate Britain.

'If I have to change my lifestyle, I don't want to live.' – #RobertMapplethorpe (1946–1989) 📸 ✨ Mapplethorpe is best known for his black-and-white photographs. As well as striking self-portraits, his work featured an array of subjects, including celebrity portraits, male and female nudes, and still-life images. Some of his most powerful works documented and examined the gay male BDSM subculture of New York City in the late 1960s and early 1970s. His 1988 retrospective exhibition, Robert Mapplethorpe: The Perfect Moment, sparked a national debate in the United States concerning both use of public funds for "obscene" artwork and the Constitutional limits of free speech in the country. Singer-songwriter and poet Patti Smith said of Mapplethorpe, 'Much has been said about Robert, and more will be added. Young men will adopt his gait. Young girls will wear white dresses and mourn his curls. He will be condemned and adored. His excesses damned or romanticised. In the end, truth will be found in his work, the corporeal body of the artist. It will not fall away.' 🖤 Self Portrait, 1980, printed 1999 📸 Self Portrait, 1985 🤍 Self Portrait, 1983 📷 Self Portrait, 1980 🖤 Self Portrait, 1986, printed 1996 📸 Self Portrait, 1982, printed 1991 🤍 Self Portrait 1985, printed 2005 📷 © @RobertMapplethorpeFoundation