art

kezia won some glitter in a bran tub at her pre-school winter fair. bran tubs are funny things. it would be good one time to have a few live hamsters and gerbils living in one. everyone would enjoy that.

anyway, kezia and i then went home and she made this glitter picture which she insisted i photograph to post on the blog. so here it is

this big bit of paper was taped to the floor outside the tate modern a few weeks back. few people obeyed the instructions. initially i didn’t but then returned and did. this was noted by two observers who chalked a line on their counting chart.

photo by esther
we had a family outing to Tate Modern yesterday. We originally were planning on seeing the Jeff Wall photos, but on the way esther spotted a Rousseau painting on a Bakerloo tube station (at Charing Cross?) and she said she had learnt about it at school. So we went to that exhibition instead which was very good.

photo by kezia
esther and kezia had little computers which they wore round their necks which explained what all the pictures were about and showed little graphics. it’s all very modern and not like museums we suffered as children (sorry mum if you are reading this!)

photo by kezia
we also did some photo practice in the turbine hall of the Rachel Whiteread construction which still hasn’t been knocked down (though i noticed some of the base blocks are now glued to the floor)

photo by kezia

kezia drew this lovely picture of her and me. i love the toes and fingers. i’m on the right.

mermaid with funny arms

yellow polka dot bikini

red sunglasses

jellied eel

ice-cream

there’s a new giant construction in the turbine gallery at the tate modern. i visited for approximately 4 minutes on the way to a meeting near by and got these photos:

it’s nice to see such a giant thing, which appears to be quite flimsy. i really wanted to swing my work bag in to one of the mountains to see it it would all fall down (but i decided that was a bad plan – especially as by that time i only had 2 minutes left of speed-art viewing.

i doubt everything is ever going to live up to the weather project in this space, but this will do for now !

2 days later

this chap was in a caged area doing some sand sculpture.

it was quite impressive (click for bigger version to inspect detail)

random thing on a bollardy thing near Goodge Street station

i’ve got about 300 photos back logged ready for blogging sometime, but i should have a bit more timely with this, which is kezia’s drawing for me for father’s day last sunday.
i’m on the left and she’s on the right. apparently she drew our heads then panicked as she didn’t know how to draw bodies !
i just love how kids photos can be so expressive.

esther has recently developed a more subtle approach to painting. note the bold triangle surrounded by whispy blue bits.
she calls this piece “two clowns getting married”.

if i ever go back to the brussels art museum i’m going to track down this delightfully random painting and get a better picture of all of it (rather than just this man in a zimmer frame)

here is a close up of the sign of the brussels modern art museum.

here is jane in a belgian art gallery considering whether this was an exhibit. by the time we’d finished our visit they’d moved this stuff out the way so it wasn’t.
sometimes art is so difficult.