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mhuzzellRob has given me a challenge.
We went to Beatles City this morning. Saw the Tate Modern and other stuff. Rob wanted to go on a Mersey Ferry because he is a boy. 'And wanted to sing the song', he adds.
Tate Modern was very nice. It had lots of cool art inside. The upstairs was shut; culture doesn't open until the 30th. But the main bits were open. There was a section on artists fom around the world, and the other focused only on the city.
The first section was mostly paintings and weird sculptures made of bits of metal and other stuff. They had a Matisse! Well, three really, but only two were paintings. I love his nudes. They also had one of a pensive woman by the Spanish Pablo whom I also like a lot (but only sometimes)--but this one was very nice. A painting of lots of legs was good, and little drawings of people fucking trees. Two jars in a sunny corner have stuck in my mind, but are hard to describe.
The second section was mostly photos and paintings. They showed the city in varied lights and eras, from poor slums to boho culture. I liked the photos a lot. They ranged from sad to funny to those that simply made you think. There were also a few films, but these were just weird and kind of hard to grasp. The paintings were mostly just kind of dull, but one of them was quite clever and made me laugh. It was just a series of signboards painted into a little story, of how the person was an art teacher who lived seven doors down from where John Lennon used to live, and got fed up with all of the writing on walls saying how much people loved John Lennon. So the person wrote on the wall that Lennon was a wanker, and as they did so a cop drove by and asked if they weren't a bit old for that sort of thing.
So the Tate Modern is pretty cool. It's full of nice art, fun art, sad art, weird art, crap you suspect shouldn't really be called art, pretty art, ugly art, and art that makes you think (as all good art should).
We went to Beatles City this morning. Saw the Tate Modern and other stuff. Rob wanted to go on a Mersey Ferry because he is a boy. 'And wanted to sing the song', he adds.
Tate Modern was very nice. It had lots of cool art inside. The upstairs was shut; culture doesn't open until the 30th. But the main bits were open. There was a section on artists fom around the world, and the other focused only on the city.
The first section was mostly paintings and weird sculptures made of bits of metal and other stuff. They had a Matisse! Well, three really, but only two were paintings. I love his nudes. They also had one of a pensive woman by the Spanish Pablo whom I also like a lot (but only sometimes)--but this one was very nice. A painting of lots of legs was good, and little drawings of people fucking trees. Two jars in a sunny corner have stuck in my mind, but are hard to describe.
The second section was mostly photos and paintings. They showed the city in varied lights and eras, from poor slums to boho culture. I liked the photos a lot. They ranged from sad to funny to those that simply made you think. There were also a few films, but these were just weird and kind of hard to grasp. The paintings were mostly just kind of dull, but one of them was quite clever and made me laugh. It was just a series of signboards painted into a little story, of how the person was an art teacher who lived seven doors down from where John Lennon used to live, and got fed up with all of the writing on walls saying how much people loved John Lennon. So the person wrote on the wall that Lennon was a wanker, and as they did so a cop drove by and asked if they weren't a bit old for that sort of thing.
So the Tate Modern is pretty cool. It's full of nice art, fun art, sad art, weird art, crap you suspect shouldn't really be called art, pretty art, ugly art, and art that makes you think (as all good art should).
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Date: 2007-03-30 12:09 am (UTC)Anyway, which song did Rob want to sing? "Ferry 'cross the Mersey" by Gerry and the Pacemakers? I'm surprised that anyone but me remembers it. :-)
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Date: 2007-03-30 08:32 pm (UTC)