Tate Britain

On the 18th November 2008, our art class went to the Tate Britain. Once we got there, we put our coats and bags down and went over to the Turner Prize Exhibition. in the exhibition, we looked at the art of four different artists and had to sketch some of their work. My favourite artist was Cathy Wilkes because I liked the way she took found objects and made it into art.

After we finished in the Turner Prize exhibition, we went over to the Francis Bacon exhibition. The Francis Bacon exhibition had 10 different rooms and we had to go to each of them and sketch one of his paintings. I found this part particularly hard to do because Francis Bacon's paintings are very complicated and hard to understand. Fortunately though, I managed to do a few.

What I learnt on that day was that art can come in all different forms and that it doesn't have to be a simple structured drawing. Overall, I enjoyed the day, and even though I found Francis Bacon's paintings quite strange and contorted, they were quite interesting to look. The only thing that could've been better was the fact that I don't think that I took much away from it as I don't tend to think too much about the painting that I'm looking at.