Tag: Tate Modern
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Frida Kahlo at Tate Modern
I visited this exhibition with a friend today. I’ve long had a deep appreciation for this artist: her talent, resilience, integrity and intelligence. Facing immense difficulties in her health she showed an indomitable spirit surviving polio, a horrific accident in her teens and lifelong suffering. Spending many years immobile she painted from her bed. She…
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Tracey Emin: Tate Modern
This was a wonderful exhibition. I’ve always admired her work but I’ve never really engaged with a deeper and more expansive body of her art. This show certainly gave me the opportunity to explore and take a longer considered look. While I have always loved the fluency of her drawing today I was brought up…
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Theatre Picasso Exhibition at Tate Modern
Although not a favourite of mine I admire his inventiveness, imaginative qualities, curiosity and eclecticism and this was a fascinating exhibition bringing to the public gaze the Tate’s collection of the most significant painting and drawings by the artist in the collection and exploring performance and ambiguity in Picasso’s work. Looking at the spectrum of…
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Die Blaue Reiter at Tate Modern
Today I decided to indulge my passion for German Expressionist painting which I rekindled last month in Munich and Vienna. Since university I’ve always loved the energy and somewhat mystical nature of their work and Marc and Kandinsky have always been favourites. The exhibition was well put together and included many works by Kandinsky and…
Escape to myself 