Sunday 2nd September – Tate Britain

I went on my first gallery visit since A -Levels on Sunday to Tate Britain. The task of going to the Tate, was a bit of a mystery to me because I wasn’t sure what I was looking for, or if I needed to take photographs of the work. I thought back to when I went during my A – Levels, and what I needed to do for that, and used my past knowledge with the gallery, which actually helped me a lot. Throughout the gallery visit, I felt a lot more confident with what I was doing. I felt as though the trip was successful, I got a lot of inspiration from the art pieces, and the photography pieces. My strongest point is actually photography, so I feel as though I can analyse photographs a lot better than art work, as I have never studied art, so the art world is completely new to me, and therefore is a quite overwhelming.

I looked at the entire gallery, but I concentrated on the two exhibitions called, ‘Sixty Years of British Art’ and ‘New Generation Sculpture’. The New Generation Sculpture’ exhibitions was quite overwhelming for me because of the work being sculptures, I didn’t really know how to respond or to understand the work. The ‘Sixty Years of British Art’, that was more in my comfort zone as there was a lot of photography work, with collages, and I felt that I enjoyed looking at these more because I knew how to interpret and analysis them.

Through the visit, I got to understand what my weaknesses and strengths are. I have attached a few photographs from my visit, which are different types of art; photography,  moving art and sculptures.