The Tate Britain: Picasso In Britain

On Thursday the 10th my college took us to London again! :D So I went to the Tate Britain for the Picasso exhibition they have on at the moment, although surprised that i was the only member of my class that decided to go there, it was AMAZING! not only did they pretty much cover each phase of Picasso's artistic career but compared his work to some of the major British artists that he had a huge impact on, each of which filled a large room!

The British artists included in the exhibition were Wyndham Lewis, Graham Sutherland, Francis Bacon, David Hockney, Ben Nicholson, Duncan Grant and Henry Moore.

They said not to take any photos in the exhibition, but i figured it wouldn't hurt anyone in any way if i took a couple with no flash or anything like that... so i was rather cheeky and as the staff were telling off other people for taking photos, i took the opportunity to take a few haha i had to be quick though, so their not great photos, but seeing as all of the work is all over the Internet anyway, I'm not really sure what the problem was, if i had the flash off. I suppose its a paid exhibition and they want people to buy the book that pretty much summarises the exhibition (which i bought anyway, because it's brilliant). I'm not entirely sure of the copy right/patent laws of art but i think its something along the lines of, if the artist is dead then then you can reproduce (take photos of) the work without permission from the artist (obviously they cant give permission, for reasons i need not explain). Shall i post a few? hmm...

Suppose if i DO get in trouble for this, I'll take them down should they ask me too, seems fair to me, especially due to how terrible these photos are, due to me trying to be ever so discrete...

Duncan Grant

Ben Nicholson

Picasso

Francis Bacon

Picasso

Graham Sutherland

Picasso













I didn't manage to take any photos of Wyndham Lewis' or David Hockney's work.

After exiting the Picasso exhibition, i took a wrong turn while trying to leave Tate Britain and Found a very poorly lit room with one of my favourite paintings in, which made my day so much more spectacular!! It was Porthleven by Peter Lanyon! Genuinely breath taking.

























There were also two other works in the room that caught my eye, I'm unsure of the artist who created the relief in the first of the two pictures bellow, but the second image is Black Mirror by Alan Davie.

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"So I'm out here again, sparks hid behind my teeth, i wont say a word for fear of fire spreading through."

Chalk, Cahrcoal and Conte on Mounting Board

Chalk, Charcoal, Acrylic, Emulsion and Conte on Mounting Board

Acrylic on Paper

Chalk, Charcoal and Acrylic on Paper

Acrylic, Emulsion, Chalk, Charcoal and Pencil on Paper

Acrylic, Conte, Chalk and Charcoal on Paper

Acrylic, Emulsion, Water Colour and Gouache on Mounting Board

Acrylic, Chalk and Charcoal on Mounting Board

All of these except the 2nd and 5th pictures were done on tuseday, when i filled a backpack full of a range of materials, took a nice long walk around the hills and had a great time painting and drawing what i saw. The horse fly arent quite so fun but they gave up trying to bite me after a while haha!

The images above are all going towards my final major project for college (im liking the sound of the final part!) but having a small amount of time to create the most amazing work youve done through out your entire education to date with no guide line, not even a breif, is quite tricky... Even though its still early days as far as this project is concerned, i know the time will fly by and before i know it, i'll need final pieces to mount and be ready for the final show...

The title of this post is a quote from David De La Hoz by The Chariot which i have had stuck in my head ALL week... Glad its an amazing song hahaha :)

Thanks for being on my blog, looking at my work and reading my words! :)