Tate Britain- Last full day in London
Monday April 2, was yet another cloudy day with a few isolated showers. The high was 11C. We walked to the Liverpool Street station to catch the tube to the Tate Britain. Alain and his buddy Good advice We went to see All Too Human: Bacon, Freud and a Century of Painting Life. The exhibit featured a number of painters in Britain (British and not, but who lived or live in London) who strove to represent human figures, their relationships and surroundings in a very intimate way. Some of them only ever painted from life. Others created imagined scenes. Whatever the approach, this group of artists moved beyond naturalistic representation, capturing the ways in which they are affected by their subjects. The two major artists in the show were Lucian Freud and Francis Bacon, but their art was shown alongside a number of their contemporaries. The last room of the show featured a number of younger artists who were carrying on their ...
