Yesterday we went to the Tate Modern Art Museum! I enjoyed looking at all of the art that was being displayed and reading about the different artists that took photographs or made paintings, and sculptures that were apart of the museum.
We spent an hour and a half in the museum and I think that was just the right amount of time for me, because while I enjoyed looking at everything I have a shorter attention span and so I just got to look around and move from room to room at my own pace.
The first piece of art that caught my attention is by Andrea Bowers and was created in 1965. It was a bunch of pieces of cardboard stuck together and there was a picture drawn on it with sharpie. I liked it because it wasn’t a huge, expensive, flashy painting / design, it was a well thought out cheap and very well made design. I could tell that the artist put in a lot of time and thought into making it.
The second piece of art that I really liked was a 3 piece painting of what looked to be just red splatter paint by Cy Twombly, and the reason that I chose this is because it reminded me of my trip to NYC over spring break when I saw Sweeney Todd with my mom and aunt. One of the Sweeney Todd posters has the name of the musical with blood dripping down and I thought that they resembled each other quite a bit, I also think this one was so impactful for me was because it reminded me of a great time with family seeing a show that I love with the people I love!
We also went to see A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Globe Theatre! Originally, I really did not like reading it because the language is very hard to understand and I am just not a huge Shakespeare fan. But I have to say, I really enjoyed watching the play. I enjoyed seeing everything play out and watching it happen rather than reading it and trying to guess what is happening. I liked the costumes and I liked the audience interaction, and I really liked the music, however I did not like the seats they were pretty uncomfortable. But I would say thats the only part of the experience I didn’t like.
Overall, I really enjoyed A Midsummer Might’s Dream, I would probably see it again, and I am very excited to see Comedy of Errors at the Globe theatre!
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Great choices of artworks to comment on. The works on cardboard in black marker so intricate, and the red paintings so seemingly simple. But both evocative, as you say.
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