Friday 11 January 2013

Tate Modern

I've never really fancied this Gallery due to not being keen on what is deemed "modern art".  People like Hirst and Emin and suchlike produce nothing that I would class as art, therfore, this Gallery has been avoided on my visits to London.  Due to bad weather during my trip in December I was in need of more "indoor" activites so I thought I would give this place an hour or two, to help pass the time.  Whilst my opinion on the vast majority of "modern art" still stands, there were a few pieces that caught my eye and I thought I would share them here.  Apologies for some blurry captions, I used my phone to take these photos.

 Pino Pascali - Trap


 

Richard Long - Small White Pebble Circles



 Kishio Suga - Ren-Shiki-Tai



Henri Matisse - The Snail



Piet Mondrian - Composition C (NoIII) with Red, Yellow and Blue






Lee Krasner - Gothic Landscape
 


Barnett Newman - Moment



Claude Monet - Waterlillies



Rene Magritte - Man with a Newspaper


  
Tristram Hillier - Variation on the Form of an Anchor



To be perfectly honest I'm not sure what it was that drew me to these pieces (bar the Monet).  I think they are quite varied in appearance.  The only explanation I can think of it that they all are real things or that they have tructure to them (bar the Krasner) but even that painting has detail and is not just a mishmash of brushstrokes.
I hope you enjoy :-)