I am very tired. After a late late night until the early hours of the morning with so much content that I am too emotionally exhausted to write about. And then getting up early this monring to get ready to leave for London. And then a day full of visual stimulation and some not so stimulating for me which was disappointing.
I will try to write about the visual experiences. I want to try and record as much as I can remember.....
As I stepped off the train and Waterloo and AB and I ran from platform 15 to platform 4 it all felt so familiarly London to me - the clatter of train doors, too many people to weave and dodge, the anxiety of missing the train forgetting the simplicity of just catching the next one. The smell. Stations have a smell - train smells - food stalls, lots of people smells, pee!!!
The that sort of final emergence from London station into London - station areas never seem pretty - Gar du Nord, Johannesberg (mind you at the time I was there JNB was only glorious from a long distance away), well anyway many station areas are not the most attractive - traveller zones and cheap residences (historically - now all city areas are EXPENSIVE).
So stepping out at Vauzhall and getting to Vauxhall Bridge - looking up and down the Thames, seeing London. I gasped it in. I love it! I don't want to live there anymore but I never ever lose that love of the buzzy city. London hit my visual nerves and excited my brain and my mind was full of memories - events, fun, laughter, adventures, people - wow the people that have come and gone - experiences!!
AB an I arrived in good time and joined the gallery tour.
Sadly but of course essentially there were galleries closed for the purpose of re-hanging.
I tried to keep notes as well as experience the art - I am not sure I can be bothered to write anything out in full - so here are my notes and I will try to expand upon them .....
So we were whisked off with a dramatic flurry of petticoats ..... our tour lady made a few social faux pas - he he he. Assumptions and prejudices without meaning to. She was very nice. She was mainly intenet about telling about the story of the models for the paintings but I did learn some interesting facts and questions were raised. I am not sure I trust her accuracy on some things - she whirled us around a taster though that was enough to create an interest in me ....
Henry Tate
Neo classical building -
Neoclassicism is the name given to quite distinct movements in the decorative and visual arts, literature, theatre, music, and architecture that draw upon Western classical art and culture (usually that of Ancient Greece or Ancient Rome). These movements were dominant in northern Europe during the mid-18th to the end of the 19th century.
Hogarth promoter of artists - "Throughout his career, Hogarth served as a promoter of a national art for Britain, railing against his countrymen's often slavish devotion to the works of foreign artists and dramatists. He also worked to encourage artistic independence from the patronage system, insisting that painters could support themselves without the controlling influence of wealthy patrons if they would exhibit their work in public places and sell inexpensive prints of their paintings."
I have for a while has a copy of one of his engravings - I am no longer certain how I was introduced to it - I tend to think it was JH and in the last 9 months he has brought a lot of fascinating art and creation to my attention.
Gin Lane is the etching I have a copy of (not a hard copy and jpeg)
What I have enjoyed learning about Hogarth is the working with the everyday people of the streets which I imagine at ths time he was painting was not so fashionable or supported - I suspect that painting was maibly people of importance and commissioned portraits. Which of course realtes to the information above:
Self portrait. Painting of a painting stood on 3 books. William Shakespeare, Jonathan Swift and John Milton’s Paradise Lost, respectively
Serpentine line important in art theory of this line?? - ah my note - actually its the line of beauty. I have no idea where I got the idea it was the serpentine line????? Oh now I have found out that yes it is called the serpentine line or s line in art. I did hear right! I always doubt myself so.
Hogarth's theory "According to this theory, S-Shaped curved lines signify liveliness and activity and excite the attention of the viewer as contrasted with straight lines, parallel lines, or right-angled intersecting lines which signify stasis, death, or inanimate objects"
Now hung next to Hogarth (and there were so many of the older paintings all crammed in together - is this because of the work being done int he gallery? I assume so as there were some that were so high it was not practival to even try looking at them
Joseph Highmore
Mr Oldham and his guests
Conversation close up
Painted self into = I made this note to msyelf (like Hitchcock he he he - like cameo roles and Tarantino who actually takes on parts within his own work - not unique at all it's being going forever) Is anythign really unique now?
Starts of still life? This note is in realtion to the tour guide commenting on the bowl and the bottle of wine.
So having read a little more about this I realise that still life was also there forever. Bit a point made is that often still life in earlier art contained religious connotations or meaningful symbols.
Apparently amongst earlier artists breaking free of the religious element was Leonardo Da Vinci and Jan van Eyck.
Gosh I could read and study forever. I love all the history and lilnking with social situations of the time and influences on changes - and humans evolving being shown through some peoples creativity. After all it is creation itself.
I will continue later as I really need to do some psychology reading for my course - more to do of everything ........
Bliss
X
I will try to write about the visual experiences. I want to try and record as much as I can remember.....
As I stepped off the train and Waterloo and AB and I ran from platform 15 to platform 4 it all felt so familiarly London to me - the clatter of train doors, too many people to weave and dodge, the anxiety of missing the train forgetting the simplicity of just catching the next one. The smell. Stations have a smell - train smells - food stalls, lots of people smells, pee!!!
The that sort of final emergence from London station into London - station areas never seem pretty - Gar du Nord, Johannesberg (mind you at the time I was there JNB was only glorious from a long distance away), well anyway many station areas are not the most attractive - traveller zones and cheap residences (historically - now all city areas are EXPENSIVE).
So stepping out at Vauzhall and getting to Vauxhall Bridge - looking up and down the Thames, seeing London. I gasped it in. I love it! I don't want to live there anymore but I never ever lose that love of the buzzy city. London hit my visual nerves and excited my brain and my mind was full of memories - events, fun, laughter, adventures, people - wow the people that have come and gone - experiences!!
AB an I arrived in good time and joined the gallery tour.
Sadly but of course essentially there were galleries closed for the purpose of re-hanging.
I tried to keep notes as well as experience the art - I am not sure I can be bothered to write anything out in full - so here are my notes and I will try to expand upon them .....
So we were whisked off with a dramatic flurry of petticoats ..... our tour lady made a few social faux pas - he he he. Assumptions and prejudices without meaning to. She was very nice. She was mainly intenet about telling about the story of the models for the paintings but I did learn some interesting facts and questions were raised. I am not sure I trust her accuracy on some things - she whirled us around a taster though that was enough to create an interest in me ....
Henry Tate
Neo classical building -
Hogarth promoter of artists - "Throughout his career, Hogarth served as a promoter of a national art for Britain, railing against his countrymen's often slavish devotion to the works of foreign artists and dramatists. He also worked to encourage artistic independence from the patronage system, insisting that painters could support themselves without the controlling influence of wealthy patrons if they would exhibit their work in public places and sell inexpensive prints of their paintings."
I have for a while has a copy of one of his engravings - I am no longer certain how I was introduced to it - I tend to think it was JH and in the last 9 months he has brought a lot of fascinating art and creation to my attention.
Gin Lane is the etching I have a copy of (not a hard copy and jpeg)
What I have enjoyed learning about Hogarth is the working with the everyday people of the streets which I imagine at ths time he was painting was not so fashionable or supported - I suspect that painting was maibly people of importance and commissioned portraits. Which of course realtes to the information above:
Self portrait. Painting of a painting stood on 3 books. William Shakespeare, Jonathan Swift and John Milton’s Paradise Lost, respectively
Serpentine line important in art theory of this line?? - ah my note - actually its the line of beauty. I have no idea where I got the idea it was the serpentine line????? Oh now I have found out that yes it is called the serpentine line or s line in art. I did hear right! I always doubt myself so.
Hogarth's theory "According to this theory, S-Shaped curved lines signify liveliness and activity and excite the attention of the viewer as contrasted with straight lines, parallel lines, or right-angled intersecting lines which signify stasis, death, or inanimate objects"
Now hung next to Hogarth (and there were so many of the older paintings all crammed in together - is this because of the work being done int he gallery? I assume so as there were some that were so high it was not practival to even try looking at them
Joseph Highmore
Mr Oldham and his guests
Conversation close up
Painted self into = I made this note to msyelf (like Hitchcock he he he - like cameo roles and Tarantino who actually takes on parts within his own work - not unique at all it's being going forever) Is anythign really unique now?
Starts of still life? This note is in realtion to the tour guide commenting on the bowl and the bottle of wine.
So having read a little more about this I realise that still life was also there forever. Bit a point made is that often still life in earlier art contained religious connotations or meaningful symbols.
Apparently amongst earlier artists breaking free of the religious element was Leonardo Da Vinci and Jan van Eyck.
Gosh I could read and study forever. I love all the history and lilnking with social situations of the time and influences on changes - and humans evolving being shown through some peoples creativity. After all it is creation itself.
I will continue later as I really need to do some psychology reading for my course - more to do of everything ........
Bliss
X
