I've been to a few and been meaning to blog about them. So will now precise:
Freud - Nat Portrait Gallery - Love the flesh but uneasy feeling about him and women
Hockney Royal Academy - beautiful bright coloured paintings of Yorshire landscapes. The huge ipad prints really interesing - just got couple of books from library on his digital art. Look forward to getting ipad one day.
Hirst - Tate Modern - agree with some critics - doesn't need 9 rooms at the Tate. I liked half of it - the butterflies and flies (I know, they belong in science museum). Some pretty stuff. A big butterfly flew onto my bright orange coast and attendant had to remove it before I could leave the room.
David Shrigley - Haywood - only 10mins so will go again. Some humour in the drawings. Not sure about the scupltures. I loved his animations a few years ago.
Tate Britain - all in one afternoon for quick previews.
Patrick Keiller - 'The Robinson Institute' -friend from NZ wants to see it so i thought i'd check it out - for me with poor attention span and dislike of standing, I didn't stay long enough to read the long texts in detail or watch the 1/2 hour videos which moved very slowly but i think i got the jist. Not bad but not my thing. Admire rather than love.
Picasso and British Art - Tate Britain - only had 10 mins before closing. Will probably go again. Seems ok.
Migrations - British art through the theme of migration from 1500 to the present day. Need more time/less aches and pains to read the labels about the artists.
Still to see:
Hajj - British Museum
Turner - National Gallery
I've yet to see any of the iPad art that I have heard so much about.
ReplyDeleteMy 70+ year old uncle has just updated his iPad 2 for an iPad 3! Anyway, he told me that they sell what he called reconditioned iPads with a guarantee. That might be a cheap option.