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UNDERCURRENTS

“They lived in squares and loved in triangles.”

Like me with the local Norfolk bitches.

#queerbritishart @tate.

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“Erlands firm grip on the guns barrel seems suggestive.”

Perhaps he was just worried it might ‘go off.’

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“He wrestled with the competing impulses of figuration and abstraction.”

I wrestle with whether to poop inside or outside.

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“References to death and it’s peace can be disrupted by undercurrents of desire.”

We’ve all been there.

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“He gravitated to London where he began the visceral exploration of the human figure.”

But now we’ve moved to the seaside.

3 Colin Stars,

Cheers,

Martin x

GET IT

Had to queue up with the plebs it was so busy.

Blooming joke.

They should have put a sign up.

A lady was becoming flustered.

#Hockney @tate.

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Some of it I liked. Some of it I didn’t.

Some words: Splash, bottoms, parents, iPads, Yorkshire.

I liked the ones where he coloured them properly in but not the ones where he coloured them in too much.

Thats the tension inherent in Modern Art.

3 Colin Stars,

Cheers,

Martin x

NEW

This afternoon I…

Found “New ways of seeing.”

Experienced “New truths.”

Witnessed “New forms of modern beauty.”

All a bit much for a dank Wednesday.

#paintingwithlight @tate

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Turns out painting and photography are linked.

Copying, correcting, challenging and complementing.

I can do that.

“Truth in every particular ought to be the aim of the artist.”

Okay, tomorrow.

“Rejecting nothing, selecting nothing.”

Iv other things to do.

This was the best one…

Arthur Hacker ‘A Wet Night at Piccadilly Circus.’

But I mucked around with it.

4 Colin Stars,

Cheers,

Martin X

PS the other great thing was the shop…

Bought Eli his 1st proper ted…

The cashier joked that she feels cruel putting them in bags because it might remind them of the days when they were vacuum packed…….

ORANGE

Art eh?

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I was invited to take an orange from a pile.

But I couldn’t take a picture.

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“Art works were ordered, not by space or volume, but by time.”

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I don’t like oranges.

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“Reading rather than looking.”

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Ok, ok… 5 Colin Stars.

Cheers,

Martin xx

PS On the way home I couldn’t shut my bag because of the blinkin orange.

2 Colin Stars.

TENSION

I really, really liked Barbara Hepworth @tate.

It was nearly as good as Agnes Martin @tate modern.

But this wasn’t nothingness. This was… thingness.

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Some words: balls, string, paint, tension, very busy, surgery, women, animals, marble, bronze, wood, walking all the way round things, inside, outside, love.

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It starts of with a room with lots of different sculptures by different people.

I liked the onyx toad the best.

Then there is a room that is all drawings and paintings of her.

Then it’s things actually by her.

5 Colin Stars.

Cheers,

Martin xx

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

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

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

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

“at least stars burn out brightly”

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

“at least stars burn out brightly”

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UNDERCURRENTS

GET IT

NEW

ORANGE

TENSION

HISTORY

ROUND

CANT REMEMBER

ALRIGHT SOMETIMES

OUT IN THE STREETS