Tate Gallery

Emma and myself went to the Tate Gallery in London to have a look at some art work. When we were there I found lots of inspiration from some of the paintings and sculptures.

Below are Sarah Luca's sculptors. 

The above images are skin tights filled with cotton and shaped to form different sculptures.

The above image are photographs of her sculptures. They are the same material, skin tights and cotton but shaped differently. I had to get close to the images as from a distance it looked like a person and reminded me of the surreal images I was trying to create with my dancers.

Below are more examples Sarah Luca's work (taken from the Internet)

Below are some of the sculptures that I decided to capture as inspiration with regards to shape. I captured an image of them to show the surrealism/shape of the image/sculpture. 

The image below is by a painter called Peter De Francia called "The Bombing of Sakiet" 

Above the painting below:

Sixty-eight Tunisian civilians were killed in a raid on the village of Sakiet Sidi Yousef in 1958. The attack was part of French repressions in neighbouring Algeria, and provoked condemnation around the world. Shocked by the event, de Francia dedicated this epic canvas to the innocent victims. Rather than attempting an accurate record, he used fragmented imagery and harsh colour contrasts to convey the destruction. Like André Fougeron at the same moment in France, de Francia used his art as a means of protest. 

I like the detail and surrealism of the image

Keith Arnatt photographed himself eating eleven slips of paper each printed a different word, where together they form the subtitle of the work: "eleven portraits of the artist about to eat his own words."

Below are portraits of the photographer eating the separate slips of paper. 

I captured this image not because of what the image was about but because of the way they have exhibited the image by using a light behind. It gave me the inspiration to maybe a light from behind and print of acrylic to see what effect it gives such as my fabric print. It also gave me the idea of trying alternative printing techniques such as using translucent paper and bring my image on it and to maybe double it out. This is just an idea.

Overall, I ave not been to the Tate before and found some of the work to be very inspirational and stunning and I asked someone who worked there how you could get yout work exhibited in a place like the Tate and she said that it is either they go along to someones exhibition and like their work and then discuss about exhibiting or artists will send in work or if you already have a name such as David Bailey then their work will be exhibited.