The summer exhibition happens every year at the Royal Academy. It is a huge exhibition of known and unknown artists featuring thousands of pieces of work from across the world. One of the more famous artists featured this year was R B Kitaj, an American painter and graphic artists who had his own exhibit alongside the other work.
There was a huge variety of artwork from paintings to sculpture and video installations. I saw some very interesting artwork by artists who are completely unknown and was surprised by the quality of the work shown. One piece that caught my eye was Tracey Emin's sculpture, although I didn't like it and found it a bit graphic it was definitely the most unexpected piece of art I have ever seen. There was also a piece of video art looping a naked woman's torso as she had a hula ring made of razor wire roll around her cutting into her. I at first found this disgustingly shocking, but that was the intention of the artist to which she definitely succeeded.
However for me the most inspirational and interesting thing was to see completely unknown amateurs have there work selected to be displayed along side professional artists. There was something incredibly refreshing to see new ideas by artists not normally given a chance to show off there ideas. I have been to this exhibition the last 3 years but for me this one seemed to resonate the most, the ideas that the amateur artists showed let me believe that anyone can truly show artistic spirit and skill, and I can only hope that it's as good next summer.
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