Picasso and Modern British Art. And David Tremlett.

[rhythmaning]

Friday saw me at Tate Britain for "Picasso and Modern British Art". I loved this exhibition - spanning fifty years or so, it showed Picasso's influence on British art, and was full of some of Picasso's most famous pieces, as well as pictures by those he influenced.

The most powerful picture wasn't a painting at all: it was a half-scale photographic reproduction of Picasso's Guernica. Powerful, but not pretty. There were a couple of beautiful neoclassical portraits, including The Source - a clear influence on Henry Moore.

Outside of the Picasso exhibition, I was very taken with the staircase up to the main space: it has been decorated by David Tremlett, a work called "Drawing for Free Thinking". They now let you take pictures in the Tate...

And I wandered around the other bits of the gallery, too.

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[rhythmaning.livejournal.com]

I completely agree about the curation - it was a very well thought out exhibition.

The Tremlett (I spelt his name wrong in the post!) is in the stairway - indeed, it fills the stairway. It is possible to not notice it because it is everywhere on the stairs. I don't think it was there last time I visited a couple of months ago.

I take it back! It has been there since September (http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/exhibition/david-tremlett-drawing-free-thinking)! Wow. I must have visited at least three times since then Iand I hadn't noticed it either!

[jen-c-w.livejournal.com]

Ha! At least I feel less bad now about missing it. We did a bit of an "in and out" on the picasso though.