Good art?
soft owl
collection of art in Great Britain?
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Ray
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It may not be well know - it certainly should be - The Tate art gallery has
branches in London, Cornwall and Liverpool - i've only ever been to the
London gallery and thoroughly enjoyed myself - it has had a reputation for
showing modern art including what was always referred to as a pile of bricks
that they bought for a considerable amount of money - some people have
taken the attitude that they waste money on rubbish - not an opinion with
which i agree.
Ray
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Gayle
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>It may not be well know - it certainly should be - The Tate art gallery has
>branches in London, Cornwall and Liverpool - i've only ever been to the
>London gallery and thoroughly enjoyed myself - it has had a reputation for
>showing modern art including what was always referred to as a pile of bricks
>that they bought for a considerable amount of money - some people have
>taken the attitude that they waste money on rubbish - not an opinion with
>which i agree.
Even out here in the sticks I've heard of the Tate gallery. If I
*ever* get over to that side it is one of the places I would like to
visit.
Lady Gayle, PiTA
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soft owl
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> soft owl <wood...@alpha1.net> wrote in message
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> > http://www.tate.org.uk/collections/default.jsp Is this a well known
> > collection of art in Great Britain?
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> > Hugs
> > Soft Owl
> > Owls represent wisdom, helpfulness, and have powers of prophecy.
>
> It may not be well know - it certainly should be - The Tate art gallery
has
> branches in London, Cornwall and Liverpool - i've only ever been to the
> London gallery and thoroughly enjoyed myself - it has had a reputation for
> showing modern art including what was always referred to as a pile of
bricks
A pile of bricks? It sounds as though there is a story here. Is this
anything along the lines of the gentleman who wrapped an island in cloth as
art?
There is quite a debate over what is or is not art. I think it was Marcel
DuChamp who invented found art and dadaism and had an object with glass in
it that was broken in shipping and he claimed the cracks in the glass were a
part of the art but I have seen some quite colorful modern art done with
foam which seems more a creation than an accident. I am not sure where one
would place art done by chimpanzese or elephants. Elephants are probably
sentient and so probably are many birds, parrots included, and dolphins and
whales but how does one judge the apes. I think any animal living more
than 30 or 40 years is likely to be sentient because what would one do with
all that time otherwise. So why wouldn't their self expression be valid.
Ok, talk about going off on a tangent.
I just think that if people or animals wish to play with color and texture I
am happy to contemplate it at least once.
I am not sure what people think of bears self expression.
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squirrel
>
> A pile of bricks? It sounds as though there is a story here. Is this
> anything along the lines of the gentleman who wrapped an island in cloth as
> art?
> There is quite a debate over what is or is not art. I think it was Marcel
> DuChamp who invented found art and dadaism and had an object with glass in
> it that was broken in shipping and he claimed the cracks in the glass were a
> part of the art
Or a Chinese ming vase jigsaw puzzle! I am not sure where one
> would place art done by chimpanzese or elephants.
There's a book on cat art.
Sq.
soft owl
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Where? Any by Cranky?
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Soft Owl
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> Sq.
Gayle
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>> There's a book on cat art.
>>
>
>Where? Any by Cranky?
I could compile a book on the cat things she sends me. :) It's fun.
brett
|http://www.tate.org.uk/collections/default.jsp Is this a well known
|collection of art in Great Britain?
Whilst visiting the UK last year, we found ourselves with a few hours to
kill before catching the ferry home and decided to visit the (Liverpool)
Tate.
Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaawwwwwwwwwwwwwwwnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn!!!
Some of the exhibits I found to be rather amusing but on the whole I was
bored shi ... erm ... stiff.
Maybe I simply lack sophistication!
I remember once watching a TV programme in which monkeys (or was it
children?) were let loose with paint and canvasses and the finished works
hung in a gallery. The critics were secretly filmed as they admired the
art.
"Ooooh ... a truly modernistic work ... the use of colour is just
superb."
Hmmm.
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Allegra Boverman
> branches in London, Cornwall and Liverpool - i've only ever been to the
> London gallery and thoroughly enjoyed myself - it has had a reputation for
> showing modern art including what was always referred to as a pile of bricks
> that they bought for a considerable amount of money - some people have
> taken the attitude that they waste money on rubbish - not an opinion with
> which i agree.
>
i love the tate gallery.
heck, i love all london museums. they are gorgeous and they're free.
i would go at least twice a week to the Tate Gallery and the British
Museum and the national gallery when i was there for a month and a
half a few years ago. i bought so much stuff there in the gift shops
that i really was rather broke by the end of my stay there. i can't
wait to visit the Tate Modern in London, actually, and hope to to that
this fall when i hop over to london while i'm in paris on holiday. :)
allegra
fmomoon
Allegra Boverman <abov...@cs.com> wrote in message
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> i love the tate gallery.
> heck, i love all london museums. they are gorgeous and they're free.
> i would go at least twice a week to the Tate Gallery and the British
> Museum and the national gallery when i was there for a month and a
> half a few years ago. i bought so much stuff there in the gift shops
> that i really was rather broke by the end of my stay there. i can't
> wait to visit the Tate Modern in London, actually, and hope to to that
> this fall when i hop over to london while i'm in paris on holiday. :)
When I was in London a few years ago, I spent a great deal of time in the
British Museum. That is where I discovered the use of CD players to explain
the history behind various pictures. What a development! My poor eyes were
getting eyestrain from the combination of small print and poor lighting, so
I was very glad to have the use of those CD players.
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soft owl
> > It may not be well know - it certainly should be - The Tate art gallery
has
> > branches in London, Cornwall and Liverpool - i've only ever been to the
> > London gallery and thoroughly enjoyed myself - it has had a reputation
for
> > showing modern art including what was always referred to as a pile of
bricks
> > that they bought for a considerable amount of money - some people have
> > taken the attitude that they waste money on rubbish - not an opinion
with
> > which i agree.
> >
>
> i love the tate gallery.
> heck, i love all london museums. they are gorgeous and they're free.
> i would go at least twice a week to the Tate Gallery and the British
> Museum and the national gallery when i was there for a month and a
Do you have their web addresses or should I do a search and see if I can
find them? I am trying to learn all the artisitc things I never learned as
a child. People tell me that I am good at things but I was never exposed to
a great deal of what other kids who stayed in one place for an amount of
time were. I have never had an actual art class but have done some artistic
things in a group for almost a month. I never did learn to sing so I am
researching that now just for fun. What makes a good voice a good voice for
instance? I listen to music because I like the story of the song or because
I like the notes put together the way they are not because I know much about
music. I never had a music class either. I have taken english literature
classes so have heard of the classics and have read Shakespeare and some
others. I wonder how many people have never learned a thing about art
beyond art history. I did take an art history and a couple of photo
journalism classes in college since I was a journalism major while earning
my Associate Of Arts degree. There wasn't a bachelors degree in journalism
available there and I was working in a nursing home and with children while
I earned my Bachelors in Social Work. Of course I haven't used that in a
lot of years and mostly crunch numbers with the help of a computer these
days. The last time I worked with people was before I started the Masters
program in Recreation and Parks. During that whole program I was so busy
reading, studying and doing independent study and research classes that
there wasn't time for much else but now that there might be I am searching
out all sorts of interesting places and things and trying to figure out how
people not exposed to cultural things as a child find them as an adult
unless they live in a city of over one million.
What do you think? What type of training should people look for after
they leave school? What do you think would be useful for all adults in
society to know? I find myself fascinated by work done by other species
because it gives an insight into their world which is very different from
our own. An elephant for example lives about as long as we do but can
communicate across whole valleys with a deep rumble we can barely hear even
close up, they can follow a trail by smell, and have a very different social
structure. African Grey Parrots can communicate a limited amount in english
but what are they really thinking? Chimps are 98 percent genetically the
same as we are but very different. If you look at the use of color and
texture in their "art work" it is quite different I think but is it their
art work or what they are trained to do? Is our art work our art work or
what our society has trained us too do? American art does not appear to me
too be the same as oriental art but is it the same as British or French art
at all?
By the way, how are your studies going?
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Soft Owl
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brett
|Do you have their web addresses or should I do a search and see if I can
|find them?
http://www.tate.org.uk/home/default.htm
http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/
http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/
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soft owl
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Thanks a lot I appreciate your help.