Other thoughts on the Tate
I was unimpressed with Gaughin, I have always hated him as a painter, I found him to be self absorbed, and his paintings lack luster. His brush strokes seemed more lazy and uneducated than painterly, and such was true (ten fold) when seeing them in person. I search the exhibit for something that would possibly change my perspective on his work, sketches, concepts, something, and was unable to find anything lasting.
ON THE OTHER HAND! All was not lost on the TATE Modern, The art-historical exhibits were fantastic. Nothing pleases me more than the importance of art modern art history in a contemporary exhibition of old works. They had a large scale map of art historical periods by year with famous artists from that movement listed near it. It really just delighted me to see that my interests are not isolated, that they are actually points of debate, at least in the London art scene anyway.
It was nice to see a piece from Art and Language all though it was just a tiny (literally post card size) portrait of Lenin. And I saw the work of Julião Sarmento for the first time and was completely and utterly blown away. Text based work referencing Joyce and Foucault. I have seldom seen work that is contemporary (as in within the past ten or so years) that makes me think, yes, art world I do in fact belong here. Normally, its work from the 70's that I am just stumbling upon for the first time in the 21st century.
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I was unimpressed with Gaughin, I have always hated him as a painter, I found him to be self absorbed, and his paintings lack luster. His brush strokes seemed more lazy and uneducated than painterly, and such was true (ten fold) when seeing them in person. I search the exhibit for something that would possibly change my perspective on his work, sketches, concepts, something, and was unable to find anything lasting.
ON THE OTHER HAND! All was not lost on the TATE Modern, The art-historical exhibits were fantastic. Nothing pleases me more than the importance of art modern art history in a contemporary exhibition of old works. They had a large scale map of art historical periods by year with famous artists from that movement listed near it. It really just delighted me to see that my interests are not isolated, that they are actually points of debate, at least in the London art scene anyway.
It was nice to see a piece from Art and Language all though it was just a tiny (literally post card size) portrait of Lenin. And I saw the work of Julião Sarmento for the first time and was completely and utterly blown away. Text based work referencing Joyce and Foucault. I have seldom seen work that is contemporary (as in within the past ten or so years) that makes me think, yes, art world I do in fact belong here. Normally, its work from the 70's that I am just stumbling upon for the first time in the 21st century.
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Forget Me (2005) // Dublin-Trieste 2 December 1909 (1996)
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