By the turn of the nineteenth century, a host of artists were discovering the joys of sketching the Lake District. Read more in this new story 👉 https://artuk.org/discover/stories/picturesque-landscapes-sketching-the-lake-district 🧑‍🎨 Lucy Caroline Bridgeman (1826–1858) 📷 Weston Park Foundation

Today's #Museum30 prompt is reflection 🪞 We've chosen this painting by Mary Fedden. Read more about her work 👉 https://artuk.org/discover/stories/mary-fedden-the-pleasures-of-life-after-privation-and-loss#Museum30 'Reflection' by Mary Fedden (1915–2012) © Royal Academy of Arts.

Remembrance Day each year is an ideal opportunity to delve into well-known and well-regarded art resulting from different periods of warfare. #RemembranceDay #ColourOfWar #Art @artukdotorg.bsky.social artuk.org/discover/sto...

It's said that dogs look like their owners 🤔 William Hogarth was born #OnThisDay in 1697. He is best known for his moral and satirical engravings and paintings, and his love for dogs 🐶 'The Painter and his Pug' by William Hogarth (1697–1764) 📷 Tate

Today's #Museum30 prompt is rainbow 🌈 Read about the rainbow as a symbol of hope in Evelyn De Morgan's paintings 👉 https://artuk.org/discover/stories/the-rainbow-as-a-symbol-of-hope-in-evelyn-de-morgans-paintings 📷 De Morgan Foundation

It's #RemembranceSunday ❤️ Anna Airy was one of the first women war artists, her paintings are powerful depictions of World War I. Read more about the women who painted the war 👉 https://artuk.org/discover/stories/women-painting-the-first-world-war#RemembranceSunday 👩‍🎨 Anna Airy (1882–1964) 📷 Imperial War Museum

Today's #Museum30 prompt is map 🗺️ Listen to this Art Matters podcast episode on the the artistry behind maps 👉 https://artuk.org/discover/stories/art-matters-podcast-the-artistry-behind-maps#Museum30 'The Hand Made Map of the World' by Tam Joseph (b.1947) © the artist. 📷 Ben Uri

Today's #Museum30 prompt is stitch 🪡 This cushion cover is in the Embroiderers' Guild collection. Read more about the collection 👉 https://artuk.org/discover/stories/introducing-the-embroiderers-guild-collection#Museum30 'Cushion Cover' by unknown artist 📷 The Embroiderers' Guild

Today's #Museum30 theme is box 📦 This sculpture is not actually a cardboard box, it's a bronze cast, sealed with tape and painted. 👉 https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/box-755460/#Museum30 'Box' by Gavin Turk (b.1967) © the artist / Bridgeman Images. 📷 The David and Indrė Roberts Collection

Wright of Derby: From the Shadows opens at the National Gallery today 🕯️ Explore one of his 'candlelight' paintings in detail with this The Superpower of Looking learning resource 👉 https://artuk.org/learn/learning-resources/the-superpower-of-looking-an-experiment-by-candlelight 📷 National Gallery

Day 6 of #Museum30 is clay ⚱️ We have just finished a 12-month Ceramics digitisation scoping project. Read more about the project here 👉 artuk.org/discover/sto... 'Salt Jar' by Buckley Pottery (active 17th C–1946) 📷 Aberystwyth University School of Art Museum and Galleries

We’re looking at dramatic artworks for this week’s #OnlineArtExchange with @artukdotorg.bsky.social. As sunsets go, you can’t get much more dramatic than this! This work is Evening, Strathspey by Joseph Denovan Adam RSA. Adam specialised in painting the Highland landscape and local farm life.

Margaret Rawlings, co-founder of Equity whose many stage performances spanned 1927-1979. Bust by Frank Dobson who went to Harrow Green School & Leyton Technical School. 📷 Manchester Art Gallery, © the artist's estate artuk.org/discover/art... For @artukdotorg.bsky.social's drama #OnlineArtExchange 🎭

We're taking this week's @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange theme of dramatic art very literally AND shamelessly pandering to #swifties with this wonderful cast bronze plaque of Ophelia in front of the Arras in Hamlet. It's from Colzium House #Kilsyth artuk.org/discover/art... #taylorswift

We're getting dramatic for the #OnlineArtExchange this week. We've selected a painting which is full of drama: Captain William Rogers Capturing the 'Jeune Richard', 1 October 1807 Samuel Drummond (1765–1844) from National Maritime Museum #art @artukdotorg.bsky.social #BlueskyArt

Today's #OnlineArtExchange theme is 'most dramatic artworks' 🎭 'Cassandra' (c.1863-64) by Frederick Sandys depicts the tragic cries of Cassandra - bestowed with the gift of prophecy, cursed to have no one believe her. #UlsterMuseum #Art #GreekMythology @artukdotorg.bsky.social

It's dramatic artwork for today's @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange. What can be more dramatic than this sky? 🖼️ A Spate in the Highlands by Peter Graham from the collection of Manchester Art Gallery

Today's #OnlineArtExchange is most dramatic artworks ⚡🌟 We're starting with some theatrical portraits 👉 https://artuk.org/discover/stories/hamming-it-up-a-closer-look-at-the-genre-of-theatrical-portraits 'Dame Ellen Terry, as Lady Macbeth' by Reginald Grenville Eves (1876–1941) 📷 Eden herb

Today's #OnlineArtExchange is most dramatic artworks ⚡🌟 We're starting with some theatrical portraits 👉 https://artuk.org/discover/stories/hamming-it-up-a-closer-look-at-the-genre-of-theatrical-portraits 🧑‍🎨 Reginald Grenville Eves (1876–1941) 📷 Herbert Art Gallery & Museum

Tomorrow's #OnlineArtExchange is your most dramatic artworks ⛈️💁 We'll see you in the morning! 'Macbeth, Banquo and the Witches (from William Shakespeare's 'Macbeth', Act I, Scene iii)' by Henry Fuseli (1741–1825) 📸 National Trust

It's #BonfireNight! 🎆🌟 Explore some art inspired by fireworks in this Curation 👉 https://artuk.org/discover/curations/object-in-focus-fireworks#BonfireNight 'Fireworks' by Wilhelmina Barns-Graham (1912–2004) © @Wilhelmina barns graham

Read about five makers from the Aberystwyth University School of Art ceramics collection 👉 https://artuk.org/discover/stories/five-makers-from-the-aberystwyth-university-school-of-art-ceramics-collection Reginald Fairfax Wells (1877–1951) 📷 Aberystwyth University School of Art Museum and Galleries

Discover more about Art Nouveau in the UK with this new story by Simon Coates 👉 https://artuk.org/discover/stories/art-nouveau-in-the-uk-how-british-artists-drew-influence-from-europe 'Frontispiece for 'Venus and Tannhauser'' by Aubrey Beardsley (1872–1898) 📷 The Higgins Bedford

A new, free The Superpower of Looking learning resource will soon be winging its way to you 🐦 In our latest film, street artists Scott Irving (Brave Arts) and Peachzz meet pupils from Brinsworth Howarth Primary School in South Yorkshire to check out a special mural. Keep an eye out 👀

Read about the strange art of female anatomical figure studies in this new story 👉 https://artuk.org/discover/stories/dissecting-women-the-strange-art-of-female-anatomical-figure-studies 🧑‍🎨 Johann Heinrich Hasselhorst (1825–1904) 📷 Wellcome Collection

Hello November! 👋 Check out these artworks with 'November' in the title 👉 https://artuk.org/discover/curations/A-Year-through-Art-November 'November Morning, Knostrop Hall, Leeds' by John Atkinson Grimshaw (1836–1893) 📷 Shipley Art Gallery

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of #BohemianRhapsody here’s a load of art matched up with the song artuk.org/discover/cur... @artukdotorg.bsky.social

Conjuring on paper ✍️ Explore Will Maclean’s drawings in this new story 👉 https://artuk.org/discover/stories/conjuring-on-paper-an-exploration-of-will-macleans-drawings 'Coigach Altar' by Will Maclean (b.1941) © the artist. 📷 Aberdeen Archives, Gallery & Museums

Today's #Museum30 prompt is 'signage' 🛑 There's plenty of signs to be found on Art UK, here's our pick! 'Naples Street with Road Signs' by Kirsten McAlister (b.1982) © the artist. 📷 Royal Scottish Academy of Art & Architecture

We're taking part in #Museum30 this year and today's prompt is 'introduction' 👋 Hello, we're Art UK – the online home for UK art (check us out at https://artuk.org) 'The Introduction' by Frederick Walker (1840–1875) 📷 The Fitzwilliam Museum

Laurence Stephen Lowry was born #OnThisDay 🎈 You can find lots of Lowry prints for your walls on the Art UK Shop 👉 https://shop.artuk.org/artist/laurence-stephen-lowry-1887-1976 'Going to Work' by Laurence Stephen Lowry (1887–1976) © The Lowry Collection

This painting is one of the most iconic images from Wales's visual culture – but can you spot the devil in the shawl? 😈 Read more 👉 https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/salem-337662 'Salem' by Sydney Curnow Vosper (1866–1942) 📷 Lady Lever Art Gallery

Put your spooky art knowledge to the test with our Halloween quiz! 👻🎃 👉 https://3081ca794b59.quillforms.app/forms/art-quiz-halloween 'The Beguiling of Merlin' by Edward Burne-Jones (1833–1898). 📷 Lady Lever Art Gallery

Happy Halloween 🎃👻 Discover stories themed on fear and horror 👉 https://artuk.org/discover/stories/view_as/grid/search/2024--sttopicr:fear-and-horror? 'Summoning the Devil' by Normandie Syken (b.1995) © the artist. 📷 Glasgow Women's Library

Love art and want to help make a difference? 🎨 We're looking for people to join our Audience Panel. It's a great way to give your opinion and help shape the direction Art UK. Sign up 👉 https://artuk.beaconforms.com/form/4a08723d

A spook-tacular #OnlineArtExchange for Halloween – thanks everyone 💀🦇🎃 Next week's theme is your most dramatic artworks 🎭 'Metamorphic Skull Postcard' by unknown artist 📷 Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh

Death has many connotations, positive and negative, for each culture. It’s fascinating to observe its vast representations! 💀 This has inspired our choice for this week’s theme #spookyart in @artukdotorg.bsky.social's #OnlineArtExchange 👻 How does your culture celebrate the dead and the living? 🩻

Illustration of stage set up for Pepper's Ghost, 1865. This famous stage illusion was developed by inventor John Henry Pepper who lived in Colworth Road, Leytonstone in 1890s. 🖼️ commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pe... For @artukdotorg.bsky.social's #OnlineArtExchange on spooky art for Halloween! 👻

This week @artukdotorg #OnlineArtExchange Spooky art What can be more spooky than Witch by Margaret Mellis (1914–2009) from the collection at Glasgow Museums Resource Centre (GMRC)

This week’s @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange theme is Spooky Art 👻 We have chosen Death the Bride by Thomas Cooper Gotch. From a dark sea of blood-red poppies, a spectral bride emerges — veiled in black, crowned with white flowers, her pale smile hovering between innocence and eternity.

We're celebrating spooky season for this week's #OnlineArtExchange with @artukdotorg.bsky.social! Our pick is William Stewart MacGeorge RSA's Hallowe'en!👻🎃🐈‍⬛

👻 Today we're getting spooky for the #OnlineArtExchange 👻 We've selected:Study for 'The Haunted Room' by Alfred James Munnings from The Munnings Art Museum #spooky #halloween #art #ghosts

It's spooky art for today's @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange for Halloween 👻🐈‍⬛🦇🎃 We have chosen 'The Haunt' by Laurence Stephen Lowry from the collection of The Lowry.

Spooky art is today's #OnlineArtExchange for Halloween 👻 Check out some hauntingly good art in this story 👉 https://artuk.org/discover/stories/ghosts-ghouls-and-spectres-hauntingly-good-art#OnlineArtExchange 'A Spectre' by unknown artist 📷 John Rylands Research Institute and Library

Angelica Kauffman was born #OnThisDay in 1741 – she was the equivalent of a rockstar in the eighteenth century! Read more 👉 https://artuk.org/discover/stories/angelica-kauffmann-the-female-trailblazer-of-neoclassicism/#OnThisDay 🧑‍🎨 Angelica Kauffmann (1741–1807) 📸 National Portrait Gallery

Boo! Tomorrow's #OnlineArtExchange is spooky art for Halloween 👻 Join us if you dare 🦇🎃 'Devil' by William Bell Scott (1811–1890) and Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836–1912) 📷 East Ayrshire Council

Discover how artists featured Staffordshire figures in paintings 👉 https://artuk.org/discover/stories/purposeful-pottery-how-artists-featured-staffordshire-figures-in-paintings 🧑‍🎨 Frederick William Elwell (1870–1958) © the artist's estate / Bridgeman Images. 📷 Ferens Art Gallery

Dominic Blake recently spoke with Alastair Adams, reflecting on his career as a portrait painter. 👉 https://artuk.org/discover/stories/portraits-as-a-sequence-of-encounters-an-interview-with-alastair-adams 🧑‍🎨 Alastair Christian Adams (b.1969) © the artist. 📷 Manchester Metropolitan University

Discover more about Art Nouveau in the UK with this new story by Simon Coates 👉 https://artuk.org/discover/stories/art-nouveau-in-the-uk-how-british-artists-drew-influence-from-europe 'Frontispiece for 'Venus and Tannhauser'' by Aubrey Beardsley (1872–1898) 📷 The Higgins Bedford

Autumn colours 🍂 Marianne North was born #OnThisDay, read about the trailblazing artist 👉 https://artuk.org/discover/stories/marianne-north-a-trailblazing-artist#OnThisDay There's over 1,000 of her works to explore on Art UK! 'Autumn Tints in the White Mountains' by Marianne North (1830–1890) 📷 Kew Gardens