GPS Coordinates: 51° 29" 27"" N, 0° 07" 38"" W
Address: Millbank, London SW1P 4RG
The National Museum of Art, containing the world's largest collection of English art from the 16th to 20th centuries. The main building is called Tate Britain and is located on the north bank of the Thames south of Vauxhall Bridge. The museum also includes another gallery of modern art. Tate Modern, located on the south bank of the Thames opposite.
The gallery was founded by the English sugar magnate Henry Tate on the basis of his own collection of English artists and opened on July 21, 1897 in a building designed by Sydney Smith. It also included paintings from the South Kensington Museum, the Vernon collection from and several paintings by George Frederick Watts provided by the artist himself.
Over time, the building was repeatedly completed and new halls for newly acquired works were opened in it. In 1917, the formation of an exposition of contemporary foreign authors began. In 1988, a branch was opened in Liverpool. And in 2000, in the building of the former power plant on the banks of the Thames, the Tate Modern gallery was opened, which housed works of the 20th century. After that, the old gallery was renamed Tate Britain.
IN Tate Britain the works of the authors of the English school for its entire period of existence are presented, starting with John Betts ("Portrait of a Man in a Black Hat" - 1545) and Hans Holbein the Younger. Authors such as William Hogarth, Joshua Reynolds, Thomas Gainsborough, William Blake, John Constable are widely represented, as well as the most complete collection of Joseph Mallord William Turner in the separate Clore Gallery.
The most significant collection of paintings by the Romantics of the Victorian era, in particular the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood: John Everett Millais ("Ophelia" - 1850), Dante Gabriel Rossetti ("Annunciation" - 1850, "Beate Beatrix" - 1864), William Holman Hunt ("Claudio and Isabella" - 1850). From foreign authors are represented: Claude Monet, Vincent van Gogh, Camille Pissarro, Paul Cezanne and others, as well as sculptures by Auguste Renoir, Aristide Maillol.
Concerning Tate Modern contemporary art galleries, then it contains one of the best collections of surrealism in the world: Salvador Dali, Max Ernst, Rene Magritte, Joan Miro. Significant Collection of American Abstract Expressionism: Paul Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko (Rothko Room with Nine Seagram Murals). Modern English painting is represented by the works of Stanley Spencer, Ben Nicholson, Paul Nash, Francis Bacon, Andy Warhol and others. Russian artists are also widely represented: Naum Gabo, Wassily Kandinsky, Kazimir Malevich.
Tate Gallery in London originally created as an exhibition of exclusively British painting, it was founded by Henry Tate in 1897. As the owner of Tate & Lyle, having made his fortune in the sugar trade (or rather thanks to the invention of cotton candy), he decided to invest in art, as he greatly appreciated Victorian painting.
Over the century of the existence of art objects, so much has been collected that since 2000 a separate building has been allocated for the collection of contemporary art - gallery Tate Modern(Tate Modern).
In order not to get confused in the names, the old gallery, representing only English art, became known as "Tate Britan".
Tate Britain Collection presented in chronological order, from 1500 to the present day. Within each time period, there are thematic sections, such as "Victorian Spectacles", "Inventing Britain", "The Cult of Youth" and others. Topics change about once a year.
Portraits of ruling persons and famous people of their time (including the brushes of invited Dutch people), paintings of English life, romantic fantasies, mystical engravings and watercolors (mysticism has always been revered by the inhabitants of foggy Albion) - you will see all this in the gallery.
The Clore building houses the world's largest collection of paintings by W. Turner- about 300 paintings, which he himself bequeathed to the nation. His work is large-scale: from historical canvases about Hannibal crossing the Alps to landscapes in the spirit of the Impressionists (but written half a century before the advent of this art direction).
The Tate Gallery in London is classic and laid back, but the kids won't be bored here. Constantly held family lectures, thematic tours, the stories of individual canvases are told and even the paintings are “enlivened” by sound effects.
Or, for example, the game Find a circle"- who will find more circles, and not only in the paintings, but also on the doors, walls and even the ceiling.
On weekends and on holidays, the Tate Gallery has interesting entertainment - at 12.00 and 17.00, the so-called “ art trolley". It contains games and other interesting entertainments, thematically related to the expositions of the gallery, interesting for both adults and children.
Information on what Tate Britain activities children can participate in today is located at the entrance to the museum and on the website.
Website http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
Opening hours:
daily 10.00 - 18.00, last admission 17.15, first Friday of each month until 22.00
Entrance is free, the cost of a ticket to seasonal exhibitions may be paid.
Address:
Millbank, London SW1P
Metro: Pimlico, Vauxhall
Buses: 2, 3, 36, 77A, 88, 159, 185, 507
Between the galleries Tate Britain" And " Tate Modern", located on different banks of the Thames, there is direct river communication ships of the Thames Clipper Company. Flights depart every 40 minutes from Bankside Pier to Millbank Pier with one stop along the way.
Timetables and information on ticket prices can be found on the website of the river company www.thamesclippers.com
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The personal collection, once owned by the industrialist Sir Henry Tate, formed the basis of the world's largest collection of works of English art of the 16th-20th centuries - the Tate Gallery. Its original name is the Gallery of British Art.
Tate gallery exhibition
The exposition of the gallery is perfectly adapted: the works presented in it are strictly ordered in chronological order, starting from 1500, and thematic sections are created in each of the time periods. Systematically, about once a year, the set of topics changes, which increases interest in the collection presented here.
In the gallery you can see many portraits of famous people and monarchs, paintings that show the life of the British from different social strata, romantic landscapes, mystical paintings, numerous prints and watercolors. Much attention is paid to the little visitors of this large gallery. Thematic lectures, educational sessions, games that develop a sense of beauty - all this is carried out systematically, information can be obtained either on the website or at the entrance to the museum.
Entrance to the museum is free, except for some specialized exhibitions.
Tate Modern Gallery
The year 2000 became very important in the life of the gallery: the collection of Tate Britain became so extensive and diverse that it was logically divided into two expositions. Classical works remained in the old building on Trafalgar Square, and the section of modern art moved to the other side of the Thames in the premises of the former power plant and very quickly became a cult place in modern London - and became known as the Tate Modern gallery. The huge turbine hall turned out to be an excellent venue for various exhibitions, performances and installations. In the new room, paintings are also presented by themes, and already within the themes different styles and genres of works of art are presented. Here you can see all the artistic movements that have existed since the 19th century, listen to a thematic tour and, in addition, enjoy the stunning panorama of London, which opens from the windows of the cafe located on the top floor.
An interesting fact is that to earn money for the creation of the collection that marked the beginning of the famous gallery, Henry Tate was allowed by the invention of cotton candy and the widespread sale of this delicacy loved by children.
Location
The modern Tate Gallery is located on the south bank of the Thames on Bankside, very close to the Globe Theatre, close to Blackfriars Bridge and opposite St. Paul's Cathedral.
Address of the Tate Gallery: SW1P 4RG, London, Millbank, Tate Britain. Website: www.tate.org.uk.
Opening hours: daily 10:00-17:50, on the first Friday of each month the museum is open until 21:00. The museum is closed on December 24, 25, 26.
A dedicated boat runs every 40 minutes between the Tate Modern, the London Eye and the British Tate. Metro: The museum is located 600 meters from Pimlico Metro Station, Victoria Line, or 850 meters from Vauxhall Station. Bus: The area is served by quite a number of bus routes: 2, 3, C10, 36, 77A, 88, 159, 185, 436 and 507.
The Voksol railway station is located 850 m from the museum, Victoria Station is 1500 m.
May 7th, 2014 09:28 am
In less than five days in the capital of Great Britain, I managed to visit, including nine museums. About one of them - the Tate Modern gallery - I would like to tell in this post. Well, in order not to frighten people with full-fledged art, the story will be diluted with reflections on the changing architectural appearance of the city, night photos, a slight deviation towards Pink Floyd and the favorite cover of the disc, as well as a conversation about the economy, and heavy thoughts about what it is worth investing in. hard-earned millions.
The Tate Modern is housed in the former Bankside Power Station on the south bank of the Thames.
The architect of the building is Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, who also designed Liverpool Cathedral (which will be discussed separately), Waterloo Bridge, the design of the famous red telephone box, and, more importantly, Battersea Power Station, a coal-fired power plant that became famous after it appeared on the cover of Pink Floyd's legendary album Animals
I used to be more friendly to the Floyds - one of my favorite bands from my youth - but lately Waters has really fucked up with his calls for all musicians to boycott Israel, and I feel soon I will have to boycott their group in response. However, maybe he will die earlier, and save me the need to see his arrogant mug on the news. However, I digress a little.
The Battersea power station has appeared in many other cultural works as well - for example, in the Beatles film Help!, the cult English series Doctor Who, the Sherlock episode "A Scandal in Belgravia", in the British version of the film 1984 , and even in the movie about Batman "The Dark Knight" (Dark Knight). The very first "public" appearance of the power plant in the cinema occurred back in 1936 in Alfred Hitchcock's film "Sabotage". As it turned out, Hitchcock and then found himself ahead of the rest)
Coming back to our business, the only stipulation the architect made about Bankside Power Station was that its chimney was lower than the spire of St. Paul's Cathedral opposite.
I won’t talk about the cathedral - somehow it’s not comme il faut, but I’ll show you a few photos.
Everyone probably knows that in recent years from the Cathedral of St. Paul, located on one bank, was led to the Tate Modern on the other bank by the Millennium Bridge. When exactly the bridge was built, I hope there is no need to explain)
By the way, on my last visit to London (2003), this bridge caused me a terrible panic (I'm afraid of heights, bridges, water, people, and in general everything - a typical Jew in general), but this visit was somehow more safely. I imposingly paced myself along the bridge, and even made a number of frames from it, which I will definitely demonstrate to you.
Here is the view from the Millennium Bridge to modern London. In the center you can see the Tower Bridge, which I hope needs no introduction. On the right - The Shard or "Shard". The tallest building in London (306 meters), and until recently the tallest building in Europe (now the Mercury Tower in Moscow holds the palm). Like all skyscrapers in London, it looks terrible and out of topic at all, especially considering the fact that the Millennium Tower is located very close by. The construction of the Shard caused a lot of controversy, but the money won, and now those who go to the ancient White Tower can observe the chaos of the modern City without leaving the ticket office.
To the left are some more terrible skyscrapers. In the center - 122 Leadenhall Street, popularly nicknamed the "Cheese Grater" (with the British, everything is in order with humor - unlike the sense of landscape). 225 meters, the fourth highest in London. Ugly like my life. Opened just in the days of my stay in the city. On the left, another freak is being completed, popularly known as Voki-Toki (Radio). 160 meters, the fifth tallest skyscraper in London. Terrible, and I won’t even tell you about the famous cucumber (thank all the saints, it’s not visible in these photographs).
I didn’t want to bring this topic up here at all - there will be a separate post about modern London City - but it seems that, as in the case of New York, no one was seriously involved in the planning of these megacities. Once we discussed this issue with my cousin when I was in America, and he said that no one thought in New York how one building would look next to another (unlike, for example, San Diego ). All styles in a row just thumped, and now the city looks absolutely chaotic - . The same feeling is created in London. That is the thousand-year-old Tower, or a Gothic church, and next to it is a glass skyscraper or a brick hulk. Sometimes you see whole streets in the same style, but this is very rare. However, this does not take away from the charm of the British capital - London takes on another.
Well, we will still return to high art and cross the bridge from the Cathedral of St. Paul
To the Tate Modern. All of the above was just a prelude - I have been told more than once in the past that the art of people is tiring, and that one should not be too elitist and high-browed, therefore I decided to show the surroundings a little and discuss pressing issues. But now get your pillows out, for we're entering the museum!
By the way, the building of the coal station was under threat of demolition for many years, until it was turned into the most famous museum of modern art in the world. Big changes are taking place these days, and a new, ultra-modern wing is being added to the old building.
Here you can see the project a little better - a white building right behind the pipe. It looks good, but in the complex it will be like with the whole new London - absolutely out of topic. The contrast of old and new and the complete confusion of styles does not work in this city, IMHO.
Well, now everything is about the museum itself. These days, the Tate Modern is hosting a hugely popular Matisse exhibition (despite the unkind price). However, I saw enough of Matisse in Copenhagen - so I will tell you about the permanent collection of the museum. Moreover, it contains one of the most expensive paintings in the world - Nude, green leaves and a bust, by Picasso.
The picture, which depicts Marie-Therese, Walter Picasso painted in 1932 - in one day. In 2010, it was recently sold for 106 (!) Million dollars (in recent years, it seems that trading in art is more profitable than oil). This is also the highest price received at the auction. It is believed that this picture symbolizes the peak of the artist's creative energy.
Another portrait of Marie-Therese Walter, "Naked woman in a red armchair". Here the woman is presented as the sum of sensual circles. Even the arms of the chair are specially high to emphasize the round shapes. The face can be viewed either as a metamorphosis taking place with the figure, or as a double figure - the right side can be interpreted as the face of a lover kissing a woman on the lips.
Picasso is generally well represented in the Tate Gallery (however, the Spaniard was a prolific artist, and is well represented in dozens of museums around the world, including in Israel. For some reason, he is worst represented in the Picasso Museum in Barcelona). One of his most famous paintings - Guernica (I have not seen her yet) - became a symbol of the horrors of World War II. Then, for many months, Picasso painted continuation paintings based on the figures in Guernica. A mural depicting the Nazi bombing of a Spanish city includes a weeping woman holding a dead child. This sequel painting is the last of the series, the most detailed and detailed. The model was Dora Maar, another mistress of Picasso.
Another "portrait" of Dora Maar, painted on May 5, 1944. The complex configuration reflects the atmosphere of the last months of the occupation of Paris by the Nazis. Tension and stiffness are the main feelings that Picasso tried to express in this canvas. Moreover, two of the closest Jewish friends of the artist - the poets Robert Desnos and Max Jacob - were deported. Desnos later died of typhus in the Terezin concentration camp, and Jacob, being also a homosexual, died in the Drancy camp. However, there is a glimmer of hope in the picture - in March, Dora Maar, along with Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, took part in Picasso's play, staged by Albert Camus. On this topic, I consider Picasso open, in the end - just his painting, which I like - "Three Dancers".
This painting is Picasso's recollection of the love triangle that ended in the suicide of his friend Carlos Casagemas. On the canvas, just splashing with energy, love, sex and death are intertwined in an ecstatic dance. The dancer on the left is generally in a state of Dionysian insanity. Her face symbolizes a mask from New Guinea, which indicates Picasso's connection with African art and his influence - especially in all things sexuality and self-expression - on the artist.
Well, now about everything in order. The debate about contemporary art is, by and large, eternal. In my posts, too, it happened to discuss - - especially when it comes to Warhol or Basquiat. Mondrian, whose picture is presented above, is also puzzling to many. Some squares, which, in fact, do not require special skill to draw (by the way, one of his most famous paintings is in our art museum in Tel Aviv). Nevertheless, the Dutchman is one of the most famous and sought-after artists of our time. So what's the idea?
In the era between the two world wars, artists developed new forms of abstract art based on aesthetic idealism and the desire for a more ideal society. Mondrian and other artists who lived in an era of endless wars and revolutions were forced to move away from individualism and turned to the harmony of geometric shapes. It is this kind of squares and lines that have become for many artists the ideal form of the new world. Nahum Gabo (Nechemia Berkovich Pevzner), one of the leaders of constcrutinism who experienced all the delights of the Russian revolution, stated that "the deconstruction of matter that has taken place in our time does not deprive us of optimism, as we are moving into a new era called reconstruction."
Changes also took place in engineering, in architecture, and especially in sculpture (this can be seen everywhere these days - from Tumarkin on Rabin Square to Henry Moore). As for the art itself, the restraint and accuracy of forms have replaced the riot of color. White began to predominate in the paintings, as a symbol of purity and innocence (also the main color of all modern architecture, whose father was La Corbusier).
Regarding the two paintings provided above - In keeping with current trends, Mondrian has decided to reduce his palette to the primary colors. Despite the seeming randomness, the artist strove for a "dynamic equilibrium". All lines, although they do not divide the space into clear and equal parts, have a clear purpose and purpose.
"Tree" - allegedly not quite a standard painting by Mondrian. However, even here the artist turns something alive into a clear uniform form. Branches and trunk are reduced to a network of verticals and horizontals, in an attempt to indicate order in nature. "I want to get to the bottom of things, and until this happens, I intend to turn everything - even the most living elements into an abstract," Mondrian said.
Forms within forms, or a reflection of a picture within a picture. My attempt at a frame with meaning.
This light installation was created under the direct influence of Mondrian. The artist was delighted with the clear geometric forms of the Dutchman, but decided to bring in earlier influences from other masters - in this case, expressionism and color.
As it turned out, Diego Rivera also drew all sorts of absurdities. The Mexican artist, mainly engaged in the production of large-scale realist murals with a communist theme and pranks with numerous women, was influenced by cubism and Jun Gris while living in Paris between 1913 and 1917. Particularly noteworthy is the presence in the picture of the cover of Nietzsche's book "Merry Science", in which he announces the death of God. The meaning is interpreted in two ways - someone claims that Rivera thus proclaims either the death of the old regime in the era of war and revolution, or the death of old art in favor of new trends and trends.
Not a single museum can do without it now - Francis Bacon. Almost all of Bacon's paintings are an attempt to explore man and his soul. In this picture, the face is distorted, so we cannot determine the person's identity. Unlike Mondrian, there is complete chaos in Bacon's paintings - in this particular portrait, in addition to the deformation of the face, we can also observe the deformation of space. The contours of the box or box (Bacon's trademark) in which the figure is located symbolizes the human essence in the modern world, which has again come to chaos, which is dominated by isolation and claustrophobia.
Leon Kossof - "Man sitting in a wheelchair". Lately, I like this Jew from Russia, who fled to the UK, more and more. Kossof belongs to the London School - a post-war trend of English painters who worked not only in the style of abstract art, but also turned to the traditional, figurative art form.
Lee Krasner is the wife of the famous American artist Jackson Pollock. Since she spent most of her time on her insanely talented but completely unlucky husband, her paintings are much less known. The painting is called "Gothic landscape" - obviously because the vertical lines that dominate the center of the canvas can be seen as trees. The painting was painted after the death of her husband in 1956, and many believe that the cruel, harsh and expressive strokes reflect the grief of the artist. And here is Pollock himself.
It was Pollock who developed the system to draw without touching the canvas (which angered all the feminists of this world - I'd better keep silent about the reason). It was this method, according to him, that made him free and more intuitive in relation to his own "I". In the case of this painting, Pollock simply poured black paint onto the canvas and then lifted it up, allowing the paint to drain and take on an abstract form. Then he added yellow and purple.
Mark Rothko. Honestly, I have a hard time with this artist). The painting was painted under the influence of Michelangelo (??). The artist believed that the viewer should completely merge into the picture, and only then will some kind of awareness or understanding come, but whether external stimuli did not allow me this spiritual unity, or whether I am too critical in this case, I don’t know.
A bit of surrealism, and my favorite De Chirico. By the way, the painting reminds me of the "Red Tower" in the Guggenheim Museum. It's called "Poet's Uncertainty". De Chirico himself described his paintings as "metaphysical" - the ability to combine scenes from everyday life and fantasy about the ancient world in one composition, thus creating a very complex "fantastic reality". Surrealists adored this kind of mysterious images with a distorted perspective. "These squares are very similar to the existing squares, and yet we have never seen anything like it. We are in an incomprehensible world," said the poet Paul Eluard. And so that you are not at all confused - another Kiriko.
Here the title explains more - "The Melancholy of Parting") The window and map with a dotted route hint at a journey and an attempt to escape from a closed claustrophobic studio. Chirico, an Italian who lived in Greece, felt cut off from his surroundings and compared himself to the Argonauts from the famous Greek myth. Their journey seemed to him an eternal loneliness, crossing endless oceans.
And this picture was painted under the influence of Chirico by the Englishman Tristram Hillier, who, like Nan and Wadsworth, adored the mysterious figures of the Greek-Italian. The huge anchor is striking, and makes you think about the significance of this strange monument. Well, since we are talking about the surrealists, there is nowhere to go without the main one.
"Metamorphoses of Narcissus". I can't even try to explain Dali's paintings. Two more to fix the topic, and move on.
Autumn cannibalism. Drawn just after the start of the Spanish Civil War in 1936. Depicts a couple in a kind of cannibalistic act. They sit on top of a table that blends in with the tones of the typical Spanish landscape. The conflict is reflected in the shape of an apple, a reference to the William Tell legend in which a father was forced to shoot his own son.
In this picture, you can see the whole duality of Dali's symbols: the River can also be seen as a fish - a duality designed to doubt the rationality of what is happening. The canvas has both personal and public implications: Dali's parents visited this river after the death of their first child, also named Salvador, and it was believed that the artist was haunted by the image of his dead brother, whom he had never seen. In addition, the disconnected phone symbolizes the relationship between the British Prime Minister Chamberlain and Hitler after the annexation of the Sudetenland in 1938.
Another picture about the influence of Nazism. Max Ernst - The whole city. The city looms low under a bright moon, expressing pessimism at the Nazi takeover of Germany. Using a new technique - Scrapping, "scraper", Ernst shows a ruined landscape, a crowded city without people, and without optimism.
You might think that this is Basquiat, but no. Just a picture that I liked, well reflecting the influence of African myths on Western art.
And this is just a cool photo taken by the Armenian photographer Sargsyan during the war in Syria. I liked the huge inscription "TsUM" in the middle of Aleppo in it)) There is another Russian store under it - it's a pity you can't see it in this photo)
And this is Matisse from the permanent exhibition. Nice quiet calm portrait. Greta Moll is depicted - she and her husband Osacre were among the first ten students at the Matisse Art Academy. I provide here as a contrast)
My favorite is Emil Nolde. The artist painted this seascape during his stay on the island of Sylt in Germany. The expressive brushstrokes and bright colors of the kakbe allude to an approaching storm. In his memoirs, Nolde wrote "I wanted to once again see the sea in all its wild splendor. Storm clouds, a thunderstorm pouring into the sea - I have six such landscapes, which were worked on in a state of complete ecstasy." I wrote a lot about Nold during a trip to Scandinavia -. In this link about the best museum in the world, by the way, there is also about Chirico, and about Mondrian, and about many others. I recommend.
My favorite is Paul Klee. A series of triangular sails closing in each other create a single line of boats in an elegant, undulating movement. The rhythmic composition is reminiscent of the diagram drawn by Klee in one of his lectures on the Bauhaus, in which he talked about "an active line limited in movement by fixed points." About his Angel of History, which is also stored in our Israel Museum, I also wrote more than once -.
Leonora Carrington. The picture is called Elohim - God in Hebrew. The artist mixes traditional Irish myths that her nanny told her as a child, and the world invented by her mother. But most of all in her paintings you can often see mythological creatures. And finally - a few posters of our beloved Soviet times)
By the way, this year the Tate Modern will host a retrospective of paintings by Kazimir Malevich
So the Russian-Soviet theme in the museum is presented perfectly
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TATE GALLERY(Tate Gallery) - the state national museum in London, which stores over sixty thousand works of art: painting, sculpture, drawings, engravings. It is divided into two parts: the British Tate Gallery (Tate Britain) or the old Tate Gallery, which is a collection of English paintings of the 16th-19th centuries. and foreign art of the 19th century, and the Tate Modern Gallery - European and American art from 1900 to the present.
The core of the Tate Gallery collection is Sir Henry Tate's (1819–1899) private collection of paintings by English artists. The gallery opened on July 21, 1897.
During the Second World War, the gallery building was badly damaged as a result of air raids. The collection was previously evacuated. The museum fully opened to visitors in 1949.
The gallery has been rebuilt several times. In 1926, a collection of foreign paintings was housed in the new building. In 1979 - the opening of rooms for a collection of contemporary art. In 1987 - the opening of the Clore Gallery, specially built for the works of Turner (1775-1851), who bequeathed his canvases to England on the condition that they all be preserved as a single exhibition. Sir Charles Clore (1904–1979) provided funds for the construction of the gallery.
The modern Tate Gallery was opened in May 2000. The building was converted from a power plant built in the 1930s in the city center, opposite St. Paul. While retaining the exterior of the power plant, the architects completely redesigned the interior and added a glass and steel roof.
The contemporary Tate has moved away from the traditional arrangement of works in chronological order. The collection consists of four large sections: "Still life, object, real life", "Landscape and environment", "Historical painting", "Nude, action, body". The authors of the exposition combine different directions: the works of old masters with modern ones, painting and sculpture with photographs and video films. The gallery hosts many temporary exhibitions by contemporary artists.
MUSEUM COLLECTION
English painting.
In the halls of the old Tate Gallery, you can get a complete picture of what English painting is, what are the main stages and directions of artistic life in the country.
The earliest work of the national school is Portrait of a man in a black hat(1545) John Betts (d. c. 1576), follower of the Northern Renaissance painter Hans Holbein the Younger (c. 1498–1543).
William Hogarth (1697–1764): Beggar's Opera (1729), Self portrait with dog (1745), wedding ball(c. 1745), Portrait of servants(1750s), Oh the roast beef of old England(Gate of Calais) (1748), numerous portraits.
Joshua Reynolds (1723–1792): Three graces adorn the herm of Hymen (1774), Portrait of Admiral Keppel (1780), Portrait of Dr. Samuel Johnson(1772), two self-portraits, children's portraits.
Thomas Gainsborough (1727–1788): View of Dedham(c. 1760), Sunset. Horses harnessed in a cart, drinking water from a stream(c. 1760), Sir Benjamin Truman (1774), The artist's daughter Mary (1777), Giovanna Baccelli (1782).
Richard Wilson (1713–1782): Thames near Twickenhm (1762).
George Stubbs (1724–1806): Horses in nature (1762–1768), hay harvest (1785), Reapers (1785).
The work of William Blake (1757–1827), who illustrated his own works in watercolors and engravings, as well as Shakespeare, Dante, and the Bible, is fully shown: God creates Adam, newton, Death of Abel, Good and Evil Angels, A pity (1795–1804).
Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775–1851): Fishermen in the sea (1796), Thames Walton Bridge(c. 1807), Shipwreck(c. 1805), Frosty morning. Dawn (1813), Crossing the stream (1815), Funeral at sea(1842). Canvases with views of Venice: Bridge of Sighs, Doge's Palace and Customs, Venice: Canaletto at the easel(1833) and others. Impressionistic landscapes of the artist: Interior at Petworth(c.1837), Norem Castle. Sunrise(c. 1840). Blizzard. The steamer at the entrance to the harbor gives a distress signal, hitting the shallow water(1842) - a perfect depiction of a storm on the sea. The gallery exhibits hundreds of sketches and the only self-portrait Turner (1798).
John Constable (1776–1837): Malvern Hall (1809), flatford mill (1817), Hampstead Heath(c.1820), Hadley Castle(c. 1828–1829), Bridge opening waterloo (1832).
Pre-Raphaelites Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828–1882): Beata Beatrix(c. 1863), Proserpina(1874); John Everett Millais (1829–1896): Ophelia(c. 1850); William Holman Hunt (1827–1910): Claudis and Isabella (1850).
Foreign Art Collection
began to form in 1917. This section chronologically begins with the painting of the French Impressionists and Post-Impressionists and has an extensive collection of masters of these areas.
Claude Monet (1840–1926): lady sitting on a bench(mid. 1870s), The Seine near Port Villeuse (1894), Poplars on the Epte (1890).
Camille Pissarro (1830–1903): Small maid (1882), self-portrait (1903), Pilots Jatt. Havre. cloudy morning (1903).
Alfred Sisley (1839–1899): Bridge on Sevres(c. 1877), Path along the river. Spring(1880) and others.
Sculptures by Auguste Renoir (1841–1919) Venus the victorious(1914) and Edgar Degas Fourteen year old dancer (1880).
Georges Seurat (1859–1891): Le Bec doo hoc (1885).
Paul Cezanne (1839–1906): Alley at Jas de Bouffan(c. 1874), Portrait of a gardener(1906); Paul Gauguin (1848–1903): Preparation for the holiday or Tahitian pastoral (1898), Harvest. Le Pouldu (1890).
Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890): Chair with tobacco pipe (1888), Gauguin's armchair at night (1888).
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864–1901): Portrait of the artist Emil Bernard(1885), Two friends(1890s).
Sculptures by masters of the turn of the 19th–20th centuries. Auguste Rodin (1840–1917): Kiss (1901–1904), Muse(1896) and Aristide Maillol (1861–1944): shackled movement (1906), Three nymphs (1930–1938).
Henri Matisse (1869–1954): Portrait of Andre Derain (1905), standing nude (1907), Snail(1953) - a large color application, as well as a series of four bronze reliefs - Nude co back (1909-1930).
Edvard Munch (1863–1944): sick girl(1907); Oskar Kokoschka (1886-1980): View of the Thames (1959).
Amedeo Modigliani (1884–1920): Little Peasant(1917), sculpture Head(c. 1913).
Pablo Picasso (1881–1973): Woman in a shirt(c. 1905) - refers to the "blue" period; seated nude(1909) - an example of cubism; Three dancers(1925) are written in a surrealist spirit. Sculpture on display: Still life (1914), big cock (1932).
