2004-01-14 22:01:00Jenny
一起在英國長大：【生活日記55】Tate Modern
29/12/04
TATE MODERN
Do you like art? To be precise, do you like MODERN art? Well if you do then you'll love Tate Modern Art Gallery because in there, there are tons and tons of art works by Matisse and Picasso and all the other famous artists. What attracted people's attention most was the ‘moon’ that hung in the hall leading to the galleries, though my dad and I discovered later that the top half is only a reflection of the bottom half! The ‘moon’ looked really like the one we saw in the musical ‘the Lion King’, but it's really a sun in ‘Lion King’!
Dad borrowed a couple of audio guides for Mick and me, read by Michael Rosen, a famous poet, who introduces the masterpieces to us.
There's a whole section about weather that really puzzled me. I mean how can any good modern art be based on such a terrible subject? Only really classical art would be based on such a boring subject. We don't even do art on the you-know-what subject, but that gallery was full of art objects and completely stuffed with paintings. If we only added one more to it the whole gallery might just explode! Anyway some of the art things didn’t even fit in that gallery like ‘The Carnival’ which is about love and should be put in the body gallery because there's those two people eating each other, but even though it's ultra disgusting it's still my favorite because Picasso had painted the knife a very curious colour. I must have stood and looked at that painting for over a minute!
There's another very famous work called ‘The Snail’ by Matisse. The large colored sheets were pinned in a special pattern so as to look like a snail. There is also a very snail-like thing sticking out of the top. No one is sure if it is another snail.
The other section we went to was ‘Landscape and Still Life’. I've always liked still life because that’s what I’m best at. There was a really good and special art object. It contained lots of wooden planks and toys etc. What happened is that the artist bought all those things in a car boot sale and put them in her shed, then she asked the army to blow her shed up and then she collected all the bits and pieces up and there it is! I even saw a pair of Wellington boots in there and they looked as if the artist had smeared dung on it! Urge!
Well time to leave! Cheerio!
PS mum and dad bought me a really good art book!
爸爸的註解：
大名鼎鼎的泰德美術館，在倫敦位於泰晤士河邊的「英國泰德」斜對岸（有一段距離），也經營一座「現代泰德」，不少當代藝術作品被移至「新館」（舊貨倉？改造）展覽，我們中午到達，一直到接近關門才離開，仍然留下不少遺憾，其中還包括匆匆而過，幾個標示「不適合兒童」的展覽室。
Jenny對美術館、博物館一直非常有興趣，這一次的語音導覽由詩人作家Michael Rosen錄製，Jenny又看過由他作品改編的戲劇，所以也就聽得更加興味盎然了。
現代泰德目前在其大廳有一項裝置藝術，看起來像「月亮」(如我所攝的照片)，一走進去，卻有如漫步太空的感覺，朦朧地像夢境，令人印象深刻。
TATE MODERN
Do you like art? To be precise, do you like MODERN art? Well if you do then you'll love Tate Modern Art Gallery because in there, there are tons and tons of art works by Matisse and Picasso and all the other famous artists. What attracted people's attention most was the ‘moon’ that hung in the hall leading to the galleries, though my dad and I discovered later that the top half is only a reflection of the bottom half! The ‘moon’ looked really like the one we saw in the musical ‘the Lion King’, but it's really a sun in ‘Lion King’!
Dad borrowed a couple of audio guides for Mick and me, read by Michael Rosen, a famous poet, who introduces the masterpieces to us.
There's a whole section about weather that really puzzled me. I mean how can any good modern art be based on such a terrible subject? Only really classical art would be based on such a boring subject. We don't even do art on the you-know-what subject, but that gallery was full of art objects and completely stuffed with paintings. If we only added one more to it the whole gallery might just explode! Anyway some of the art things didn’t even fit in that gallery like ‘The Carnival’ which is about love and should be put in the body gallery because there's those two people eating each other, but even though it's ultra disgusting it's still my favorite because Picasso had painted the knife a very curious colour. I must have stood and looked at that painting for over a minute!
There's another very famous work called ‘The Snail’ by Matisse. The large colored sheets were pinned in a special pattern so as to look like a snail. There is also a very snail-like thing sticking out of the top. No one is sure if it is another snail.
The other section we went to was ‘Landscape and Still Life’. I've always liked still life because that’s what I’m best at. There was a really good and special art object. It contained lots of wooden planks and toys etc. What happened is that the artist bought all those things in a car boot sale and put them in her shed, then she asked the army to blow her shed up and then she collected all the bits and pieces up and there it is! I even saw a pair of Wellington boots in there and they looked as if the artist had smeared dung on it! Urge!
Well time to leave! Cheerio!
PS mum and dad bought me a really good art book!
爸爸的註解：
大名鼎鼎的泰德美術館，在倫敦位於泰晤士河邊的「英國泰德」斜對岸（有一段距離），也經營一座「現代泰德」，不少當代藝術作品被移至「新館」（舊貨倉？改造）展覽，我們中午到達，一直到接近關門才離開，仍然留下不少遺憾，其中還包括匆匆而過，幾個標示「不適合兒童」的展覽室。
Jenny對美術館、博物館一直非常有興趣，這一次的語音導覽由詩人作家Michael Rosen錄製，Jenny又看過由他作品改編的戲劇，所以也就聽得更加興味盎然了。
現代泰德目前在其大廳有一項裝置藝術，看起來像「月亮」(如我所攝的照片)，一走進去，卻有如漫步太空的感覺，朦朧地像夢境，令人印象深刻。