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The McManus Museum and Art Gallery, Dundee. Impressed Exhibition

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In March we visited several art galleries, mainly in Edinburgh but we also visited the McManus Art Gallery and Museum in Dundee. They have an exhibition on called Impressed. It features limited edition prints by fairly well known artists.

The print below is by William McTaggart and is called Roses Against a Night Sky.

Dundee , William MacTaggart Roses Against a Night Sky

The print below is called Houses Hampstead and it’s by Winifred McKenzie.

Dundee, McManus, Winifred McKenzie Houses Hampstead

Below is Homage to Modern Art by Ian Hamilton Finlay. As you can see the glass is very reflective so I’m featuring in it too! I just like boats, especially if they have sails they always look elegant.

Dundee ,Ian Hamilton Finlay Homage to Modern Art

Not to everyone’s taste, below is one by Eduard Paolozzi, I suppose it comes under the   heading of Pop Art.

aDundee 5 Eduard Paolozzi B.A.S.H. 2

Below is just a view of part of the exhibition, there’s quite a lot to see.

Dundee ,McManus,Second general view

There’s even a Picasso print, but I just realised after we left that I hadn’t  bothered to take a photo of it, I wasn’t too impressed! But generally the exhibition is well worth going to see, especially as it’s free.

Dundee ,McManus, General view

 

The McManus Galleries, Dundee, Scotland

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We visited the McManus Galleries in Dundee recently, to see the ten Leonardo da Vinci etchings which are on display there. They are part of the Royal Collection and are touring various galleries as part of the Diamond Jubilee celebrations.

Leda

Some of them are tiny and I had to put my reading specs on to see the detail, but they’re beautiful, even in the very dim light which they are displayed in, for fear of them becoming damaged by bright light.

Unfortunately there is only one image available on their website and as you can see it’s of Leda. It’s a shame that they don’t put them all up on their site so that people who can’t get there can have a look too.

Twiggy on a moped

Another exhibition which is on there at the moment is Selling Dreams: One Hundred Years of Fashion Photography featuring photos from the 1920s up to the present day. It’s well worth going to see if you’re interested in fashion or photography. To me the black and white photos always seem much more stylish with their careful lighting and shadows. Unfortunately the only image on the website is one of Twiggy on a moped, but there are far better photos in the exhibition.

This is part of a travelling exhibition from the V&A – a bit of a taster I suppose because Dundee has been selected as the location for a new Victoria and Albert Museum, the only one outside London, and as you can imagine, Dundonians are thrilled by the idea of it. It just has to be built now! You can see what it will look like here. It looks very futuristic but I imagine it’ll eventually be loved, even by the people who originally hated the look of it. You certainly won’t be able to miss it.