I had a go at this one last week, see http://thanetonline.blogspot.co.uk/2017/01/todays-new-expeditions-at-turner.html
and I went over to Margate today to buy some books which took longer than I expected
so I decided to have lunch in the gallery café.
I got the best seat for winter painting and as there was no
sun was able to paint looking straight at where the sun was going to be.
So I will deal with my watercolour first.
This is how far I got with it
I had started it on a previous occasion when the sky was blueish and the tide was in
most of today's process is best described as trying to hack Arlington House out of the paper with a sable brush. Honest the painting is already in the paper all I have to do is release it and while the flat iron is easy Arlington isn't.
Next the exhibition photos, sorry bout the quality, if I had known that photography was now allowed I would have taken a decent camera, the lighting in Turner Contemporary is strange, not the led lighting one would expect but something archaic I think.
So criticism wise, we have just a had a star
exhibition at Turner Contemporary, for me selecting 120 of JWM Turner’s
paintings and displaying them well enhances my understanding of Turner. This
next exhibition about 120 works by about 50 different artists leaves me
confused about who’s who and what the exhibition signifies as a whole. I suppose
this is more my fault than the expedition’s the key problem being that I know
so little about contemporary fabric art. My paternal grandmother worked in
fabric embroidery and tapestry mostly, which she studied at the RA so there was
a lot of Edwardian and earlier fabric art about when I was a child. I would
have found the whole exhibition much easier to relate to if it also had some earlier
stuff in it to make a progression or connection.
That said I can relate to Sky by Kiki Smith
this may be because I sketched part of it last time I went to the exhibition
Another thought that occurs to me is that all of the artists are female and I am male, so I think there is an element of me probably just not getting some of it, but I still think the crux of the problem is too many different artists to take in.
Anyway I spoke to several people I know at the exhibition and they were all very pleased with it to I will get back soon with a decent camera and more time to sketch exhibits.
Next the exhibition photos, sorry bout the quality, if I had known that photography was now allowed I would have taken a decent camera, the lighting in Turner Contemporary is strange, not the led lighting one would expect but something archaic I think.
I did copy the catalogue also done badly with phone here is
the link https://goo.gl/photos/mqW7V8Fy5Ggwttv46
That said I can relate to Sky by Kiki Smith
this may be because I sketched part of it last time I went to the exhibition
Another thought that occurs to me is that all of the artists are female and I am male, so I think there is an element of me probably just not getting some of it, but I still think the crux of the problem is too many different artists to take in.
Anyway I spoke to several people I know at the exhibition and they were all very pleased with it to I will get back soon with a decent camera and more time to sketch exhibits.
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