tate britain, take one

I was supposed to go to the Royal Academy of Arts today, but unfortunately the exhibitions I wanted to see there were closed on Monday. I know, why didn't I look beforehand, right?
But I ended up going to the old Tate instead, in the hopes of finally seeing the Turner Prize exhibition, which I didn't see in the end, but I still walked around Tate for some time, and took notes of course. Except I was so exhausted from running around the city all day, that I didn't even manage to see a lot before I knew I had to collapse or die.

Here are some art works I greatly enjoyed.

Bethan Huws "Boats". It's a little tiny thing on a table, these little "boats" which I thought were boots with sticks representing the leg, or something. It's amazing. So minuscule, so slight.

Duncan Grant "Bathing". He was part of the Bloomsbury group, which were post-impressionists that wanted to do everything against the Victorian ways. Not a fan of Vanessa Bell, but this Grant's painting is pretty amazing.

It seems no visit can go without mentioning Bacon. There was this small study he did for "Head of Lucien Freud" and the green color is just so lovely. So acidic, so vile, so unnatural, just absolutely lovely.

As for Turner, he was in this one room and the description of the room had this phrase, which I greatly enjoyed "... attempt to make idea and technique inseparable - interlocking image and paint" and it was all about how some artists try to make the actual paint part of the whole idea of art. I think it's very interesting, and to some extent I try to do that as well, I guess.

Here are more works that I liked:

David Bomberg "Vigilante". There is something incredibly sad, almost deathly about this painting.

Richard Hamilton "The Citizen". I'm a big fan of this double painting, and I am not really sure why.

Now, I am not a fan of this painting, but I made a note of it because one day I would like to paint something like this, just to prove to myself that I can. It's Samuel Colman's "The Temple of Flora".

Turner "Death on a Pale Horse". I've never seen this one by Turner before, and I was in a state of pure pleasure when I discovered that there is more Turner in the world. Me and Turner, we are similar, at least at the moment, as I explore color and death motives. Love him.

Even in Turner's earlier works he still used that peachy yellow sunset color, it persists with the melancholy lightish blue (that comment was not referring to this work but overall).

I also saw Gilbert & George for the first time, and was not impressed. I mean, I've seen their stuff in magazines and such, but in real life, not that great.

That's it for today kids.