Tag Archives: tate

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Agnes Martin @tate

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Some words:

I love the whole world

Happy holidays

Mid winter 

One that looks like a face

Buds

Beach

Heather

Starlight

The Heavenly Race

The Garden

Burning Tree

Dominoes

Islands

Schizophrenia 

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Fiesta

Rain

Oo a rhombus

But of purple

One that looks like an alien

“Titles such as Summer or The Peach might be seen to allude to the beauty of nature.”

Homage to life

Cheers,

Martin xx

   
  

Shel Silverstein, ‘The Missing Piece.’

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HISTORY 

I was just thinking to myself: “History painting has a reputation as a conservative art form.”

Then I’m told: “History painting has an undeserved reputation as a conservative art form.”

They are right @tate #fightinghistory.

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With all the loud marching outside this was right on the button…

A film on the battle with trade unionists at orgreave (a video display I actually watched) showed a fight with a Conservative government.

“It was winner takes all.. We lost and they took it all.”

In fact it was all brilliant. I found myself actually reading all the labels.

And after the shootings in Charleston it was interesting to see Richard Hamilton’s ‘Kent State’

“Too terrible an incident in American history to submit to arty treatment… Yet it seemed right too that art could help to keep the shame in our minds.”

Some reviews have said this exhibition isn’t very good but it is.

They are wrong and I am right.

Cheers,

Martin xx 

 

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ROUND

I like sculpture because you can walk round it.

#sculpturevictorious @tate.

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Some words: busts, queens, chess, medusa, victoria, busts

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“I’m not sitting and watching a film.”

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Some more words: slavery, serpents, muscles, war, nationalism, nymphs, busts.

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5 Colin Stars.

Cheers,

Martin x

  

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SALT

If they don’t have a late on… Make your own late by leaving work early.

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I’m going to deal with two exhibitions @tate in swift succession.

Alexander McQueen-

Some words: Lips, feathers, hats.

Salt and silver-

Some words: Old, brown, photos.

In summary: mildly diverting.

That’s all you need to know, vultures.

Cheers,

Martin x

   They’ve gone to America without me. Swines. 

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ALSATIAN

“Painters may use photography but a photograph often still wants to be a painting.”

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#marlenedumas @tate

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Some words: horror, anonymity, nudity, an Alsatian, princess Diana, terror, eyes, poetry

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‘Waiting (for meaning).’

Cheers,

Martin x

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HURT

Reminiscing and talking about history @waterstones cafe.

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“The great challenge of looking back… Without being frozen in the process.”

Trying to reach the point where “everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.”

Conflict, time and photography @tate modern.

Cheers,

Martin x

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CANT REMEMBER

The Turner Prize @tate

Some words: film, can’t remember, cuts, Berlin, AstroTurf, guards, regret, can’t remember, prints, ok, being rude, film, can’t remember

Opinion: Didn’t like that, that was ok, didn’t like that, didn’t like that

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Then you can go on a boat.

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Sigmar Polke @tate modern.

Some words: dots, naughtiness, a funnel, splodges, potatoes, dots, Victoriana, dots

Opinion: I like that, I like that, I like that, that’s less interesting

Cheers,

Martin x

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ALRIGHT SOMETIMES

This little staffy always feels a great deal of pressure after a major @tate restrospective to write pertinent words of insight.

Is it not enough to say we enjoyed it?

Schwitters.

We had a nice time looking at the pictures/sculptures.

Oh im sorry, ten pounds.

But thats alright sometimes,

Love,

Harley xx

 

 

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OUT IN THE STREETS

Howdy.

Now time outs gone a bit rubbish your going to need and want me.

We went to the tate to see the turner prize entries.

We left our new card at home but they still let us in cos some people are nice arent they?

Paul Noble: some words: blobby, pencil, some words, big, houses, cool

=MY HOT TIP

Luke Fowler: little photos and a grim film about grim glasgow. Ho hum

Oo there were bean bags for sitting…

Elizabeth Price: some words: choir, choppy, the shaaaangriiii laaaaaas, diagrams

Spartacus Chetwynd: #inaword puppets.

That is all you need to know.

Love,

Harley xx

 

 

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SATURDAY NIGHT

Doggy let me do this too…

 

Tate modern blackouts, little sun, olafur eliasson, poetry and dream.

Solar powered surrealism.*

I liked it best cos you could chat people up asking for their light.

Almost like smoking cool but without the cancer.

Other people seemed “oo its dark” happy but I dont think other people were enjoying it q as much as me.

I was getting in a pickle trying to take shadow pix.

But loving it.

Theyre on the wondrous instagram which has been a life saver.

Now @thedogwhatblogs holds the purse strings…

Notionally free but u had to buy the little lamp for the equivalent of three trips to Haringey Borough FC.

But it beats taking pix of old men.

Love,

Colinxx

 

I wanted her on the left slightly…

*he asked me to provide more detail. Its like a torch round ur neck right and they turned the lights off in the gallery. Jeesh.

 

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