Thomas Gainsborough, 'The Morning Walk', 1785.
London, The National Gallery.

Passion for Paint

Bristol's City Museum and Art Gallery
21 January - 2 April 2006

Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne
13 April - 9 July 2006

National Gallery, London
20 July - 17 September 2006
Sunley Room Admission free

and the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation

The National Gallery together with Bristol City Museum & Art Gallery and the Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne have received new funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund and the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation to develop their successful touring exhibition partnership for three years.

The first exhibition in the next phase of the partnership is on the subject of paint.

Featuring works by many of the great manipulators of paint, including Rubens, Constable and Monet, the exhibition explores the different ways in which artists have exploited the substance of paint to both represent and mimic the material world.

Of equal importance is the consideration of the potential of paint as a vehicle of feeling; how we read violence, immediacy, tentativeness or pleasure into paint itself and the way it is applied.

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