Degas, Letrec, Sickert exhibition.

[Seahorse]

I dragged myself to dreary cold London on Saturday to see the Degas, Letrec, Sickert exhibition at the Tate Britain.
When I got in it was heaving, about 3 people deep!!I was very annoyed, I try and get out of peoples way when Im in a supermarket, let alone an exhibition but do you think people would get out of the way for me!!People completely blocked up the only 'through routes' between the rooms.Grrrrr, its a pet hate of mine.

What I saw of the pictures i liked but annoyingly didnt get a sense of the history behind them.


What did make me happy was the other paintings in the Tate that I wasnt expecting to see.

There were works by Rosetti, John Martin, Turner, I looked into one room and the Lady of Shallott and St Aululia(cant spell that name)by Waterhouse were staring back at me.Absolutley beautiful.

[the felt fairy]

Never been to the Tate, but sounds like it would have been interesting if not so busy.

Pity.

[Seahorse]

Yeah, only the exhibition bit was busy but they cleverly had timed viewings which I thought was a good idea but didnt really help.
MAy be less busy during the week.

The rest of the museum was pratically empty, like a ghost town.

Oh, I bought a Tate pen, a Degas fridge magnet and cup.The gift shop is always the best bit.

[0103media]

Weekends tend to be busy.. Worth taking a day off in the week to have a look

Sounds worth a look from what you said..

[Seahorse]

It was quite bizarre, Ive been to the area around the London eye/Tate Modern more often and thats really busy.
The Tate Britain is just round the corner(so to speak) and the roads and streets were practically empty!!

I walked back past Big Ben which i think is a fantastic building.I went by it just as it was chiming 2 oclock, it sounded great.
It was swarming with tourists, I was asked by 2 lots of people to take pictures for them.

[nattynetty]

That sounds like a really good day out Seahorse (on a less busy day of course).

Went to a few art museums when I was in Holland including Van Gogh and it really was an experience seeing the paintings in 'real life'

[Seahorse]

If I ever go and see real art I want there to be this 'whack in the face' of 'oh my God, thats the real painting!!' but sadly Ive never really got that.
I wante the spirit of Letrec to woft out and sweep me off my feet, but it didnt happen.
I did let out a gasp of delight when I saw the Rosettis/Waterhouses tho, these were pictures id loved since my school days.

[Seahorse]

0103media-When I was looking at Rossetis work I noticed one of his names was Gabrial.

[0103media]

Spelt the way mine is..

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

[Seahorse]

Coooool.

Da Vinci's middle name was Seahorse.

[0103media]

lol..

Which one did you see then ?

http://www.artunframed.com/rossetti.htm

[Seahorse]

Now your asking!!
Proserpine is the only one I immediately remember.

If you go onto the Tate Britain site, click on collections then go to victorians/pre raphalite, you can see what was on display.