Thoughts from the Tate modern

About a year ago I took an Art History class and learn a lot about how to appreciate art, especially modern art, and learned about the different movements in modern art. Today I had the chance to spend a few hours in one of the world's finest galleries of modern art, and as I walked around I jotted down my random thoughts and now I will share them with you. ( if you want to see what I'm talking about visit www.tate.org.uk/modern)

The architecture of this building is not functional or atractive. (inside the open area while trying to find the excibition space.)

I want to touch jean dubuffet's texturology.

There is a lot of malarky in modern art and its interpretation

Alberto Giacometti's four figures on a base made me look up at the bottom of it to see what the artist had done with the parts that most people would not see. In the image I see what the artist was trying to express, But I also see a pedistal on which tall, super thin, women have been raised, a reflection on fashion, purhaps.

Even when odd I admire sculpture, but I only admire painting if I find it visually appealing.

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff's Two Women reminds me of paul gaugan's work in the pacif islands of nude natives. I think the color saturation is part of this.

A Kandinski! I like it!
-lake starnberg.

I don't particularly like big canvases for modern "non representative" art
-joan miro "massage from a friend"
barnett newman & many others.

I like lucio fontana's spacial concept "waiting" there is something sugestive about it but I must admit that this is imposed on the razor slashed canvas by my mind. Then I see a barely formed smile.

I like that the Tate isolates explicit and blatantly suggestive works from the rest of their collecton.

In joan mitchell's #12 I see a womans face framed by marilyn monroe type hair with eyes closed and chin up.

That is kind of pretty, I like the way the colors come together. It looks like the artist was copying monet. Oh wait, that IS "water lillies". I had no idea this was painted so recently.

Even after Magri's class, I still have no appreciation for Jackson Pollack.

Cage (1) by Gerhard Richter makes me think of looking out the window of a fast moving car. None of the other works in the set does anything for me.

How did a london gallery get "water lillies"?

A staff member jUst said "No Touching" in an ominous voice and then smiled at the offending little boy. I strikes me that if modern artists want to transend the traditional restrictions of art and redefine it, if they are going to work with new textures, the patron should be able to perceive the art with more senses than have traditionally been allowed. The gallery is trying to perserve its investment but sculpture in the past has always been exposed to the elements and in the open where it can be touched art straight from studio to gallery does not sit well with me.

Ooh, look at that!
-fred williams "burnt landscape II"

That is actually very pretty not to mention, cool.
-judit reigl "mass writing"
it makes me think of black satin painting but it is done on white canvas

I don't understand the no taking pictures rule at a public gallery.

I expected his canvas to be bigger
-piet mondrian "composition c (no. III) with red, yellow and blue"

What an ego he had
-after reading Mondrian placard

Sol LeWitt' "six geometric figures" is very cool I like the ceiling to floor wall drawing, but the pinstripping is making me dizzy.

haha. That is funny.
-terry atkinson & michael baldwin "map not to indicate"

O k I'm done here"

I don't particularly like escaltors. They are designed to allows people to standstill and get somewhere anyway.

So is the tower not accessible? Bummer!

and then I went out into the damp and grey.