The Tate Modern
Some nuggets from a visit to the Tate Modern today.


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For some comments on the excellent Bill Viola work (above) may I direct you to Jonny Baker's blog



Alone in Europe you Christianity are not antique
The one modern European is you Pope Pius X
And you whom windows watch what shame keeps you
From entering a church and confessing your sins this morning
Handbills catalogues advertisements that sing overhead
Furnish your morning's poetry for prose there are newspapers
Dime detective novels packed with adventure
Biographies of great men a thousand and one titles

( From "Zone" by Guillame Apollinare)

The man who, when he paints a bottle, attempts to
express its material substance rather than paint
a group of coloured forms, should be a glass-blower
not a painter.

(Juan Gris)

Cezanne believed that conventional
perspective, which uses a single viewpoint, did not
accurately reflect the way we perceive the world.
He would paint the same subject many, many times.

Henry Moore was interested in the way subjects translated
into other media such as stone - not by trying to represent
the subject but by imagining what a person would be like
if they were a rock or a mountain - preserving the nature
of the medium.