The Tate Modern

[UnquietDad]

Was in London for work this week and managed a quick pop to the Tate.

Liked a lot of the dadaist and surrealist stuff, but come on, some of it, esp. the minimalism is really taking the piss.

I mean, this, FFS It may be a cliche but my 5-year-old DS really could have done it.

They're filling in "the Crack" right now so the Turbine Hall is empty. I wanted to ask if the filling-in was itself an act of art.

I also had a really HORRID blueberry muffin which was the texture of sandpaper and fell apart on the plate in nasty little bits. I was thinking of giving it free to Nicholas Serota and entitling it "Hunger". It was a profound exploration, I thought, of the interface between the eating and the eaten, and invited the observer to reflect on the fundamental dichotomies and hypocrisies of the affluent world's attitude to waste.

I disagree there Tnog I believe some art is objectively brilliant

lots of lovely stuff here i like this

I like the Dutch interiors

Yes, you're absolutely right, Cammelia.

I like my art to be quite challenging and slightly dark, but equally I like Rothko.

Cammelia, I'm intersted as to why you don't like Bonnard?
Zippi, I know what you mean about those sparse still lives.
I love Ben Nicholson, Mary Feddon, Alfred Wallis, Chritopher Wood, William Scott.
And Braque too .

I prefere Rennaisance detail to Dutch interiors, like Piero Della Francesca and Giotto. I think it's the human element. Though the cool still lives are good too.

what was that big posh wine bar thing on lark lane?

oooh that lovely patisserie ....

The pinhead sculptures - that guy who doesn't dare breathe in case he messes one up? Does them on grains of salt and so on? I think they're amazing and part of me still can't quite believe he really does them.

But they must have taken alot of effort, those pinheads, come on Unquiet...

Oh, undeniably.

pinheads, art , craft or a waste of time 'cos no one can see them?

well with pinheads i am impressed but they dont do anything for me at all

I like those Chapman Brothers models. They look like left on the floor toys until you look at them then they are terrifying. Also Gilbert and George. I love the idea that they live their lives as art.

Love love Tate Modern. And to diss Rothko...well !

Tsar, I appreciate the Chapmans but they give me the creeps! Very disturbing!
Really don't like gilbert and george tho, don't like their idas or visually.

I can see what you are saying northernrefugee. While I like to see them at the Tate I couldn't live with stuff like that at home on a daily basis. Some of it is interesting to visit, but thats all.

the hayward is an awful gallery..i find it really tiring and ugly

Yes I agree re Hayward but they do get good exhibitions. Only surpassed in ugliness by the Barbican imo.

Tnog, do you like Goya then. Is he dark enough for you

Saw a whole room full at the Prado in Madrid this Easter, very powerful

Bonnard? Too flowery, I always want it to be Van Gogh when I'm looking at Bonnard

But those colours Cammelia, and the nudes in the bathrooms- they're not flowery. van Gogh I just can't get on with compared to Bonnard.I'm not happy with that yellow and blue

the Haywood has some excellent shows, but i know what you mean about tiring Zippi

Its those manic cornfields eh nr39

love ben nicholson

gorgeous

patrick heron

for uQD

pinched from califrau thread

lots of marks for effort

Hey,that's good!

Sw this on another thread, it's for you unquiet
lice as art

and however much effort they're putting in, no, I don't rate it