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Thinking in advance about this exhibition. I also wondered if members of P O L go to exhibitions other than local homegrown ones? If so, do you find it a learning curve?
I haven't been to the R A summer exhibition for some years though when I lived in the south of England it was always on my calendar.
Up north we have some brilliant galleries in both Manchester and Liverpool. We have the Whitworth in Manchester and our own Tate in Liverpool also the wonderful Walker gallery oh almost forgot the Lady Lever in Port Sunlight.
Looking at paintings and really, looking at paintings I try and work out thought processes , methods of working , colours used .
As I said it's a great learning curve and a great excersise for anyone picking up a pencil or a brush.
Galleries are also great places to sit and sketch.. I did this in the Lady Lever . A thirty min sketch...yes I know her head is too small. In fact many galleries encourage people to sit and draw. Edited
by NorthLight
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I would love to go to this exhibition. Unfortunately London is too far away for a day trip and too expensive for a weekend away for me. I wish some of these major exhibitions were more central! I love some of O Keeffe's work and would like to study it more.
I'm within walking distance of some wonderful art galleries here in Edinburgh so don't venture out to others as often I should (although I sometimes travel over to Kelvingrove in Glasgow, which is one of my favourites). I usually (regrettably) miss out on the exhibitions - the trouble is they're on for so long I think I've got plenty of time to go, and then I forget! The last one I got to was MC Escher at the modern gallery last year.
Like Sylvia says some of the galleries encourage drawing - at the National Gallery there are a couple of days a month when there's an art instructor who gives talks about a particular piece and then leads a drawing class. I've never made it though as it's always on a week day. I've also seen people take folding chairs in and sit in front of paintings to draw them.
Kay Marriott
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Like you Kay I am a distance away from the big London exhibitions....but you are a lot further. I can, if I get up early be in London from Rhyl in about three hours. But yes Edinburgh would be prohibitive. a lot of lovely shows and exhibitions happen in the Capital which pass us by. Still we dont have the traffic jams, pollution and horrendous prices.
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Very true Sylvia!
I now need to thank you for starting this thread - I've since visited two of the galleries here and found two very good exhibitions. One of them was the Royal Scottish Academy open exhibition, which has a huge range of paintings and sculpture, something for everyone. I originally thought it was just going to be modern art (which does nothing for me) so I was pleasantly surprised. I'm tempted to submit something next time, knowing this. The second exhibition was the winning entries from a Schools Art Competition, which was just fantastic.
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We went to the Tate Modern for the first time a couple of weeks ago and took in the O'Keefe exhibition as our step-daughter is a fan. It was interesting and well presented and I came away with an appreciation of an artist I had previously been aware of but knew nothing about. Really liked some of her New Mexico paintings.
Found Tate Modern generally more interesting than I had anticipated once we conquered the layout and found our way around the place. Will go again even though it does mean going south of the river!