Explore Pocket Galleries by One Self

Fed up with keeping the same pace with friends while indulging yourself in galleries, but have no motivations to visit exhibitions by your own?

We got a pretty great tip here for you! Google Arts & Culture has curated a series of exhibitions on their virtual galleries, now, come and take a look before you step outside your sweet room.

1. Kandinsky at Pompidou -

     Discover Kandinsky Gallery

Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky was a Russian painter and art theorist. He is credited as the pioneer of abstract art. Kandinsky was successful enrolled at the University of Moscow, studying law and economics, at first and began painting studies at the age of 30.

In 1896, Kandinsky settled in Munich, studying at Anton Ažbe's private school and then at the Academy of Fine Arts. He returned to Moscow in 1914, after the outbreak of World War I. Following the Russian Revolution, Kandinsky "became an insider in the cultural administration of Anatoly Lunacharsky" and helped establish the Museum of the Culture of Painting.

However, by then "his spiritual outlook... was foreign to the argumentative materialism of Soviet society", and opportunities beckoned in Germany, to which he returned in 1920. There he taught at the Bauhaus school of art and architecture from 1922 until the Nazis closed it in 1933.

Follow Kandisky's evolution through time and space 3 rooms, curated by Kandisky expert Angela Lampe from Centre Pompidou.

2. Meet Vermeer

      All of the artist's paintings togother for the first time in history

Johannes Vermeer was a Dutch Baroque Period painter who specialized in domestic interior scenes of middle-class life. He was a moderately successful provincial genre painter, recognized in Delft and The Hague. Vermeer worked slowly and with great care, and frequently used very expensive pigments. He is particularly renowned for his masterly treatment and use of light in his work.

"Almost all his paintings", Hans Koningsberger wrote, "are apparently set in two smallish rooms in his house in Delft; they show the same furniture and decorations in various arrangements and they often portray the same people, mostly women."

His modest celebrity gave way to obscurity after his death. He was barely mentioned in Arnold Houbraken's major source book on 17th-century Dutch painting and was thus omitted from subsequent surveys of Dutch art for nearly two centuries.

Step inside the firist exhibition to bring all 36 paintings by Johannes Vermeer togather in one place which curated by the Mauritshuis and features artworks from 18 museums across seven countries.

3. From Africa to Japan

      Contemporary Africa and Japanese artworks from the Jean Pigozzi Collection

The Jean Pigozzi African Art Collection, based in Geneva, is the largest private collection in the world of contemporary African art. It includes works of artists who live or lived in sub-Saharan Africa. The C.A.A.C. is a passionate personal adventure that made its mark by means of careful and unbiased choices.