Trip to Tate

As starting second year at college we went on a trip to the Tate National Art Gallery. The experience as a whole in my opinion was the same as any other art gallery. There were certain things about the art that I looked at  different than before. Now as I consider more than just the message of a piece of art. When I judge a piece now I take into consideration of technique and effort put into work. Most of the time when I used to go art galleries I would walk past a piece of art a think only about appearance and quality. It didn't matter to me if it took two weeks or two minutes. It didn't matter if I thought it had a meaning or if it didn't.

The important things I think of now is meaning to the art the time it must have taken to make it and the difficulty or ease.

The quality of art that I saw at the national gallery I think is much better than at the Tate modern. The Tate modern being much more contemporary and weird to me.

One artist that we looked at before that we saw more of at the Tate was John Constable. I found his work to be filled with detail and meaning. What I believe to be the meaning to most of his paintings was a personal and sentimental feeling. He painted landscapes of places of were he used to be live by.

    

John Constable

Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows 1831

© The National Gallery, London

 

When I look at this painting what I see is a place were someone grew up in the past. A place filled with natural beauty.

On the Tate website this is described as just being the start of sublime art.

What story is being told is thought to be the after effect of a raging storm. To me what I see is a natural landscape which can no longer be seen today. The way in which the colour is captured in the painting to me is just described as being professional.

I think that they were other artist that were just as good as John Constable and some that were even better. The reason why I chose to do him was because I felt he was able to paint with a great sense of light and dark.