The trip to London was nonstop from the moment we left at 8am until when we got back to the Arch at 11pm on the dot.
The time in between was spent going from one gallery to the next admiring and drawing inspiration from some of the greatest artist from the past and the present. There was so much variety between galleries and exhibitions that each person had their own particular piece they fell in love with.
The Gauguin : Maker of Myth exhibition in the Tate Modern was a particularly interesting and important part to the trip, seeing how his painting techniques influenced the society at the time and now. Each of us wrote an appreciation of the astonishing Chinese artist Ai Weiwei’s installation in the Turbine Hall of 100,000,000 hand painted ceramic sunflower seeds. Our next stop, theTurner Prize exhibition at Tate Britain, was a valuable insight into contemporary art and looking at the four shortlisted candidates lead us all to have a vote on who we wanted to win later on in the bus! Finally the Saatchi Gallery:Newspeak-British Art Now showed us a wide range of different artworks, all very important contributors to art today.
Everyone found an artist they could relate to and a piece of work they could draw inspiration from. Overall the day flew by as there was so much to see in just one day.
Zoe Dunn (U6 G)
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Tue, November 30, 2010
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