Monet's Waterlilies Wall Calendar 2023 (Art Calendar)

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A linear calendar visually displays the entire year in one continuous line. This helps make the passage of time more concrete for young children. It allows them to count down to when special events, holidays, and birthdays are occurring. Why a Linear Calendar is Perfect for Preschoolers and Elementary Kids During his early years as a young artist in post-war London, Frank Auerbach (born 1931) produced one of his most remarkable bodies of work: a series of hauntingly beautiful, large-scale portrait heads made in charcoal. Auerbach spent months on each drawing, working and reworking them during numerous sessions with his sitters. The marks of this prolonged and vigorous process of creation are evident in the finished drawings, which are richly textured and layered. Sometimes, he would even break through the paper and patch it up before carrying on. Auerbach’s heads emerge from the darkness of the charcoal as vital and alive, having come through a lengthy period of struggle – the image repeatedly created and destroyed. The character of the drawings speaks profoundly of their times as people were remaking their lives after the destructions and upending of war.

The exhibition takes Manet’s portrait of Eva Gonzalès (1849–1883), as its focus, with the aim of presenting fresh perspectives on women artists and their artistic practice in 19th-century Paris and more broadly. The free exhibition includes works by Eva Gonzalès, Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, Edouard Manet, Berthe Morisot, Alfred Stevens and Laura Knight. Exhibition organised by the National Gallery and the Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin. Turner on TourWhile the two bodies of work, street and family, have a different tenor, they are united by a radical empathy with his subject and the desire to create a photographic image with lasting impact, sensitivity and artistic integrity. With Mayne’s post-war subjects now in their more senior years and a new generation faced with myriad crises, Mayne’s deliberations on growing up, childhood, adolescence and family feel especially poignant and timely.

New video animations featuring famous paintings in the National Gallery and the Holburne Museum, Bath, have been created by Nalini Malani, the first artist to receive the National Gallery’s Contemporary Fellowship, supported by Art Fund. The project is the culmination of Malani’s selection in 2020 as the first artist to receive the National Gallery’s Contemporary Fellowship, supported by Art Fund. The two-year research and production programme has allowed Malani to work in close collaboration with specialists from both the National Gallery and the Holburne Museum in Bath to study the institutions and their collections, with the aim to create a new artwork. The Ugly Duchess: Beauty and Satire in the Renaissance From 1984 to 1991, pioneering American artist Jasper Johns (b.1930) produced a significant body of paintings, drawings, and prints inspired by the four seasons. The Seasons are complex and distinctive works, weaving together themes of artist creation, the passage of time, and the artist’s own biography, with Johns’ shadow appears prominently in each composition. Printmaking is one of Johns’ major preoccupations, and this display will reveal Johns’ application of an array of techniques to create a collaging of imagery that is both evocative and mysterious. The Courtauld was fortunate to be given the series of nine prints by Johns in 2016 by Barbara Bertozzi Castelli, the widow of John’s long-term dealer Leo Castelli, and is the only museum in the UK to have the series in its collection. A linear calendar is one of the absolute best ways to introduce time to preschoolers and elementary students. If you haven’t tried one yet, now’s the time! Best of all, this year you may choose from three different 2023 linear calendar versions! What is a Linear Calendar?

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Time is a very abstract concept for young children, making it difficult to grasp. Because a linear calendar offers an up-close, sequential view of the year, it establishes a clear framework for when dates and important events are occurring. It gives kids a point of reference. They can clearly see the day’s date, determine which day is yesterday, which day is tomorrow, how many days left until the weekend, how many months until their birthday, etc. How to Set Up a Linear Calendar First, print your chosen linear calendar. I like to laminate ours for extra durability. Since the linear calendar is designed to mimic a timeline, you will need a longer stretch of wall to display it. In the past we’ve placed ours in a hallway and this year it will be set up in our homeschool area. This spring, a remarkable series of hauntingly beautiful, large-scale drawings by Frank Auerbach (b. 1931), produced in post-war London in the 1950s and 1960s will be presented together for the first time. Auerbach created these portrait heads in charcoal and chalk, spending months reworking them during numerous sessions with his sitters. The drawings will be shown together alongside a selection of closely related paintings he made of the same sitters. Today, these works are considered some of his early masterpieces. Made from fibres derived from blue rags, blue paper first appeared in Northern Italy in the 14th century. It became a popular drawing support for artists, and its use spread across Western Europe by the late 16th century; it was widely used in England and France in the 18th century. Blue paper provided a nuanced mid-tone which allowed the creation of strong light and dark contrasts, an effect much sought after by draughtsmen. This exhibition project brought together a team of curators and paper conservators at The Courtauld and the J. Paul Getty Museum to explore the technical aspects and artistic richness of the use of blue paper.

A devoted connoisseur of European painting and regular visitor since his earliest days in London, Lucian Freud had a close association with the National Gallery. ‘I use the gallery as if it were a doctor,’ Freud told the journalist Michael Kimmelman. The exhibition is organised by the National Gallery and the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid. Discover Manet & Eva Gonzalès Henry Moore: Shadows on the Wall, a collaboration with Henry Moore Foundation, suggests for the first time that the walls in his drawings offer a new way to understand some of his most individual and monumental Post-War sculpture projects. Linear calendars are also a great way to practice important mathematical skills, too! Let’s face it, math is so much more fun when it’s meaningful to kids. Here are a few suggested math prompts that can be incorporated into your calendar time throughout the year:

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This focused display in the Project Space will be the first devoted to The Courtauld’s significant collection of Bell’s work. It will include paintings such as her masterpiece A Conversation, as well as the bold, abstract textile designs she produced for the Omega Workshops, led by influential artist and critic Roger Fry in London, which aimed to abolish the boundaries between the fine and decorative arts and bring the arts into everyday life. The exhibition will highlight one of the most cutting-edge artists working in Britain in the early 20th century. Discover Manet & Eva Gonzalès' at the National Gallery is the first UK exhibition devised around the portrait of Eva Gonzalès (1870) by Édouard Manet (1832–1883). The painting, acquired by Hugh Lane, was by the early 20th century considered to be the most famous modern French painting in the UK and Ireland. This is the first in a new series of ‘Discover’ exhibitions to be staged in the National Gallery’s Sunley Room to explore well-known paintings in the collection through a contemporary lens.

Sign up to The Courtauld Gallery newsletter to find out about our latest announcements, exhibitions, events and more. courtauld.ac.uk/stay-in-touch/ This exhibition, which displays around fifty paintings and watercolours from public and private collections, spanning over forty years of the artist’s career presents an opportunity for visitors this side of the Atlantic to discover an artist who, although a household name in America, is not as well known in Europe. There is no painting by Homer in a UK public collection. The exhibition is organised by the National Gallery, London, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. The Credit Suisse Exhibition Lucian Freud: New Perspectives Study a new constellation each month of the year with the “Constellations” linear calendar. In addition to observing the constellation in the sky, you can also read constellation myths from around the world with Star Stories: Constellation Tales From Around the World by Anita Ganeri. How many days are there in this month? How many days were in last month? What about next month? Which months have an even number of days? Which months have an odd number of days? A Digital Resource Hub was set up, that supported our key delivery strands of: Providing advice and support online, face to face interventions and group work, and by working collaboratively with schools and their networks to support the re-integration of children into school. According to the Impact Evaluation Report produced by Cordis Bright, 98% of families said the support was helpful, and that they felt listened to, 7,331 children had reduced isolation and loneliness and 2,263 children became more settled at school.The Ugly Duchess: Beauty and Satire in the Renaissance' will open in the National Gallery in spring 2023. This exhibition will cast an unexpected light on one of the most famous, but perhaps also most misunderstood, paintings in the Gallery’s Collection, An Old Woman (about 1513) by Quinten Massys (1465/6–1530). At the core of the exhibition will be the exceptional reunion of 'An Old Woman' with her male pendant, 'An Old Man' (about 1513), on rare loan from a private collection in New York. The two works have only been displayed together once in their history, in the 'Renaissance Faces' exhibition held 15 years ago at the National Gallery. Through a small selection of works in a variety of media, the exhibition will examine the ways in which older women were depicted during the Renaissance. 'An Old Woman' is being conserved for the occasion, revealing the full extent of its outstanding execution. After Impressionism: Inventing Modern Art Other focused displays in the Project Space at The Courtauld in 2024 will include a significant series of prints from the collection by the pioneering American artist Jasper Johns. A selection of new acquisitions of works on paper will be shown in the Gilbert and Ildiko Butler Drawings Gallery. Our “Claude Monet” linear calendar helps introduce children to the artwork of Claude Monet. Each painting has been selected to represent the seasons as well. Pair this linear calendar with the “Claude Monet Activity Bundle” for even more hands-on learning opportunities!