Day 31 - Modernity

Oh my goodness. It was 100 degrees today. We were all dying. We started out in the Courtauld, which is a former home which is now turned art gallery. Because it is on the small side, Martha was not allowed to lecture in it. So instead of that, she gave us a huge assignments. We had to write on three specific works: Manet's A Bar at the Folies-Bergene (required), Cezanne's La Montagne Sainte-Victoire (we just had to choose one of his works), and Campin's Triptych with the Entombment (required). Then we had to write on three additional works of our choosing. I chose Seurat's Young Woman Powdering herself, Van Gogh's Self-Portrait with a Bandaged Ear, and Derain's Fishermen at Collioure. Here are pictures of the works, in order.







After I finished that somewhat stressful assignment, I looked around the museum for a while.


Love Kandinsky.
Then we were instructed to go to the Tate Modern.
Wow. It was so incredibly exhausting and mind-numbing. We were running through the museum to get to all the works she wanted us to see. It was crazy! But a good experience nonetheless :)

After that, we went back to the hotel. We went to a cheap place for dinner. Got fish and chips again. Yummy :) Then we got packed up to head for the next town - Antwerp, Belgium.

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Emily Peterson said…
Those close-ups of the Seurat and the Van Gogh are so cool!!

Do you remember any works in particular from the Tate Modern that you really liked? One of the times I was there they had a HUGE installation made of white plastic blocks that filled the entire main floor! It was very interesting - you could walk around it all and see the mountains and tunnels, etc that were created from the blocks.
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