We made it! Welcome to London!
Landed in London about 9am, went through customs, no stamp! What?! They do that now, they have machines that you can put your passort in, it takes your picture and you are good to go. Sort of…I wanted the stamp! I discovered this the last time I was here. Now…if I wanted to stand in the very long line, I could get the stamp, no thanks, I’m ok! I’ve got stamps from other countries, if they all…
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Richard Tuttle, Saturday from Censorship, (one from a portfolio of seven lithographs), Universal Limited Art Editions, Bay Shore, NY, 2003, Edition of 34 [MoMA, New York, NY. Tate, London. © Richard Tuttle]
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The Grad Life - Day 11/50 (23/09/23)
Today was a day of museums. Being a lover of museums and living in London is a blessing - so many free ones. I’d only planned the visit to the museum of the order of St John in the morning, which was lovely albeit small (stunning building though), but I walked south a bit and stumbled across the Tate Modern and decided to go in. That’s when my luck hit because a tour was about to start and I had a great guide, and it made me enjoy and understand everything so much more! I’m typing this sat in the museum cafe, very ready for a quiet evening in.
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Tate Modern, London
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TATE Modern Museum, London
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Thomas Lowinsky (British, 1892–1947) • The Dawn of Venus • Tempera on canvas • 1922 • Tate, Britain
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Pierre Soulages (24 December 1919 – 26 October 2022)
Pierre Soulages is considered a major figure of post-war European abstraction, alongside Hans Hartung, George Mathieu, Serge Poliakoff and Jean-Paul Riopelle.
He’s particularly renowned for his “outrenoir” (“beyond black”) series of paintings, which feature matte and glossy black fields interrupted by ridges, scores, and gashes; the artist is interested in how black paint absorbs and reflects light.
Since making his gallery debut in 1947, Soulages has exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, The Louvre and the State Hermitage Museum (he was the first living artist to show at the institution), and his work has been acquired for the collections of the Centre Pompidou, The Guggenheim, Tate Modern, and the National Gallery of Art in Washington.
Applying the paint in thick layers, Soulages’ painting technique includes using objects such as spoons, tiny rakes and bits of rubber to work away at the painting, often making scraping, digging or etching movements depending on whether he wants to evoke a smooth or rough surface. The texture that is then produced either absorbs or rejects light, breaking up the surface of the painting by disrupting the uniformity of the black.
Peinture 65 x 92 cm, 9 février 1960, 1960, signed; signed and dated 9 Fev 60 on the reverse, oil on canvas, 65 by 92 cm, 25 9/16 by 36 1/4 in. © Bonhams 2001-2020.
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Occupying the former power plant, Tate Modern's Tanks
involved the conversion of three large, circular, underground oil tanks originally used by the power station into accessible display spaces and facilities areas
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Giorgio de Chirico (Italian 1888-1978), La Famille du peintre (The Painter’s Family), 1926. Oil paint on canvas, 1464 × 1149 mm. (Source: Tate Museum, London)
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Sophie Taeuber-Arp, January 19, 1889 / 2023
(image: Sophie Taeuber-Arp in the office of the Aubette, Strasbourg, ca. 1926-1927; from Sophie Taeuber-Arp: Living Abstraction, Curated by Walburga Krupp, Eva Reifert, Natalia Sidlina, Anne Umland, Kunstmuseum Basel, March 20 – June 20, 2021, organised in cooperation with the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the Tate Modern, London)
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