Oh yes, Janie and I loved this exhibition.
Tate Modern has a new offering for members – opening a couple of hours earlier on Saturdays and Sundays for members only. Great idea.
We plugged for the Sunday, which was a sensible slot for us…
…except I should have thought to shift our Boston Manor tennis court back by an hour…
…I’ll get that right next time.
Meanwhile, London is almost a pleasure to drive through at 8:00 on a Sunday morning…and places to park when you get there.
Quite a lot of members milling around the exhibition, but not crowded the way the public slots for the Picasso exhibition are likely to be. A real members’ benefit, for those of us willing to get up early on the weekend. The show is really popular, btw – you’ll need to book if you want to get in for a regular slot.
There are lots of top notch pieces on display in this show. It is mostly the story of Picasso’s miraculous year, 1932. You do get to see a few works from other periods, but not many.
Plenty of variety in Picasso’s work during 1932 and lots of interesting stuff about his life at that time too.
These days the Tate allows punters to take pictures of some but not all the works. Not quite sure how they decide what is and isn’t allowed. Janie nearly always wants to take home the book of the show if she likes a show (as she did in this case)…but still on this occasion she took some pictures as well…perhaps for your benefit, dear reader/viewer. They certainly make fine eye candy for the blog piece.
Here is a link to the Tate resource on this exhibition.
Below is the trailer vid, with some delicious flamenco music:
We loved the show – what more is there to say?
If you want to see reviews of the show, click here for a search term that finds them.
Here are a couple more of Janie’s pictures…I mean Picasso’s pictures photographed by Janie of course, to round off this blog piece.
I’ve just been round the Picasso museum in Málaga, Spain. Only one of their pictures was in London though. That’s a relief or I would have have irritated.
I found the Málaga exhibition a bit of a “curate’s egg”. Some works of genius, others where either I didn’t have time to really appreciate it, or it really was a bit “meh”
I wasn’t inspired to buy the book (€35!)
Gosh, Paul. I think of Ogblog as an (almost) any time, any place, any where activity, but would probably even myself draw the line at delving into Ogblog while on holiday in Spain.
We haven’t been to the Picasso in Málaga, but can from experience commend the Museu Picasso Barcelona http://www.museupicasso.bcn.cat/en/ and the Musée Picasso in Paris: http://www.museepicassoparis.fr/en/
Both visits to be Ogblogged in the fullness of time.