Art Everywhere, this summer’s mass public art display in Britain, goes live around the country tomorrow.

The public have voted and the works for display this summer have been selected.  The top 10 are:

1. John William Waterhouse, The Lady of Shalott, 1888 – on display at Tate Britain, London
2. John Everett Millais, Ophelia, 1851–52 – on display at Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow
3. Francis Bacon, Head VI, 1949 – on display at Manchester Art Gallery
4. John Singer Sargent, Gassed, 1919 – on display at the Imperial War Museum, London
5. Lucian Freud, Man’s Head (Self Portrait I), 1963 – 0n display at Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester
6. JMW Turner, The Fighting Temeraire, 1839 – on display at the National Gallery, London
7. Alfred Wallis, Five Ships – Mount’s Bay, 1928 – not on display
8. L.S. Lowry, Going to the Match, 1953 – on display at Tate Britain, London
9.  James Whistler, Nocturne: Blue and Gold – Battersea Bridge, c.1872–5  – on display at Tate Britain, London 
10. Cornelia Parker, Cold Dark Matter: An Exploded View, 1991 – not on display

The initiative can be summarised by the following statistics:

• 22,000 poster sites across the UK
• 2000 London buses, 1000 black cabs
• 57 British masterpieces
• 1000 individual donations
• 30,000 Facebook likes

Download the blippar app here today and go in search of these artworks from tomorrow.  The App uses your phone’s camera to “blipp” each artwork that you find on the streets to bring it to life in your hands.

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