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Matthew Gale

Autor(a) de Dada & Surrealism

22 Works 626 Membros 4 Críticas

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Obras por Matthew Gale

Dada & Surrealism (1997) 161 exemplares
Francis Bacon (2008) 84 exemplares
Dali & Film (2007) 65 exemplares
Paul Klee: Making Visible (2013) — Curator — 53 exemplares
Joan Miró : The ladder of escape (2011) — Editor — 50 exemplares
Tate Modern: The Handbook (2012) 27 exemplares
Arshile Gorky (1900) 19 exemplares
Natalia Goncharova (2019) 18 exemplares
Creative confession and other writings (2013) — Editor, postscript — 16 exemplares
Kettle's Yard & Its Artists. An Anthology. (1995) — Editor — 12 exemplares
Francis Bacon: Working on Paper (1999) 10 exemplares

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Conhecimento Comum

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This is the catalogue of the soon-to-end (Jan. 4th 2009) exhibition of Bacon's works at Tate Britain. It is a stunning collection of works by a truly original artist who could stand as the greatest to come out of the British Isles in the mid-20th Century (he was, of course, Irish-born).

Viewing the paintings is an uncomfortable experience: faces scream out of darkness, bodies are twisted, laid open, bleed. He uses lines to confine and circumscribe his figures as if in cages. He is not an artist from whom to seek solace about the human condition, but humanity is there. He wrote "I would like my pictures to look as if a human being had passed between them, like a snail, leaving a trace of the human presence and memory trace of past events, as the snail leaves its slime". I think he succeeds.

When I visited the exhibition I noticed two mothers with daughters of 7-8 years, both sitting in front of these harsh works and discussing them. I wondered what you could usefully say to a young child about the images.
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Assinalado
abbottthomas | Dec 23, 2008 |
Knihu jsem zakoupil v Tate gallery v české verzi
 
Assinalado
Schizmatik | Jan 18, 2008 |
An indepth and well illustrated overview of Dada & Surrealism.
 
Assinalado
schwarzz | Jun 13, 2007 |

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Paul Klee Artist
Flavia Frigeri Contributor, Curator, Chronology
Annie Bourneuf Contributor
Anja Baumhoff Contributor
Bettina Kaufmann Contributor
Maria Luisa Lax Contributor
Christopher Green Contributor
Joan Miro Artist
Teresa Montaner Contributor
Kerryn Greenberg Contributor
William Jeffett Contributor
Robert S. Lubar Contributor
Joan Miró Artist
Aleksandr Deineka Illustrator
Boris Kustodiev Illustrator
Dina Akhmadeeva Assistant Curator
Adolf Strakhov Cover artist
Simon Bolitho Chronology
El Lissitzky Illustrator
Sergei Senkin Illustrator
Nina Vatolina Illustrator

Estatísticas

Obras
22
Membros
626
Popularidade
#40,249
Avaliação
3.9
Críticas
4
ISBN
40
Línguas
5

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