15.03.2012.

TAOP

Visit to Tate at Margate-Turner and the Elements.

Since Assignment Three is about colour I thought a visit to the Turner Exhibition was in order.  

As it states in the exhibition handbook, “...the appearance of objects in the landscape depends on light....”.

Turner’s use of colour is such that all the criteria for Assignment Three could be easily fulfilled  by using his studies. 

The colour harmony in, “The Chain Pier, Brighton”, is in stark contrast to the clash of colours in, “The Scarlet Sunset”.  Bought a selection of post cards to give me inspiration.  

Hamish Fulton.

Also on show was a small part of the Hamish Fulton exhibition, “Walk”.  A milestone may by important on the walk but a photograph of it on the wall of an art centre it looks pretty dull.  Perhaps I missed the point or need to see more than the very few pictures featured.

Two of his other pictures were far more interesting.  One was of a snow capped mountain top in Tibet, a pilgrimage for Buddhists that took many days to reach.  The photograph was taken from a newly built super highway smashed through the high plateau by the Chinese.

The second was of an elderly Buddhist monk in a Tibetan monastery clutching a hand bell.  The story was not in the man himself but in his surroundings.  The building looked almost derelict,  rubbish was strewn about the courtyard,   the prayer flags looked old and tatty and there was no sign of there being other monks.  It was a picture not of the monk but of the end of a way of life.

The photographs are not brilliant but the story they tell is very powerful.  A case of the scene and the seen.