I have only visited the Tate Modern once because it's just up river from The Globe and I had time to kill before a show. I must say, it was the best laugh I have had in ages. As a retired second-hand car dealer I wish I could have got away with the strokes pulled by some of those contemporary, so-called 'artists'. Outside of the nearest Somerset Waste Services landfill site I've not seen so much rubbish in one short space! But enough with the insults, my life already, today the Tate Modern has reclaimed my affections because - and you will make a note of this, that's an order! - from 16th October through to 9th March next year they are mounting a Paul Klee exhibition and it is not to be missed!
I mentioned in the post below that even snapping, snarling, old grumps like me should beware of denigrating all modern art forms out of hand. The works of Paul Klee are a pure, unadulterated joy to behold. In virtually all of them he is concentrating on this or that aspect of painting a picture - line, form, colour (especially colour!), balance, composition and so on. If you know his works well you can see these elements in them and how they change from one picture to another. And yet, none of that sort of analysis is needed, you can quite simply gaze at them, smile, be a little enchanted and move on.
If I haven't quite convinced you with regard to Klee then make it part of a day out in London. The South Bank nowadays is a joy. A lovely enbankment stroll with 'old man Thames' flowing by on one side and on the other lots of cafes, shops, one or two up-market retaurants, a huge second-hand book market, the Royal National Theatre, Tate Modern, The Globe and, from October to March, Paul Klee. Who could ask for anything more?
Go on, treat youselves!
Hmmph. Klee is Picasso in color.
Posted by: JK | Thursday, 30 May 2013 at 17:28
Now, y'all lookee here, Mr. JK (I've just been watching two episodes of "Justified" and I'm writing this with the accent!), y'all wouldn't know a Klee from a Picasso if'n they both pain'ed pictures on your belly, ya hear what I'm sayin' here?
(How's my accent coming along?)
Posted by: David Duff | Thursday, 30 May 2013 at 17:48
(Somefin's wrong wid ur comments doohickey.)
Accent's coming along right nice David, we'll hillbilly you yet!
I'uz jes checkin' to see you'uz payin' perper attentions.
Watched 'Justified' myself coupl'a weekends back - furly a'crute. Little lackin' in the scragglies department (too many had too many teeth) but overall, purty good.
Posted by: JK | Thursday, 30 May 2013 at 18:52
But apart from the accents, JK, in real life do they actually construct rather elegant, almost 'Olde English' type sentences as they do in the TV series? Or is that just the superb influence of Elmore Leonard?
Posted by: David Duff | Thursday, 30 May 2013 at 19:51
But apart from the accents, JK, in real life do they actually construct rather elegant, almost 'Olde English' type sentences ...?
Actually David, I'm of the opinion you'd be rather pleasantly surprised. Most especially should you be persuaded to attend some one or another of our "old-timey" church services.
(Give me a minute)
"Randolph was fascinated that Ozark “peasants” living in the early twentieth century as subsistence farmers in an isolated pocket of the United States were singing songs about British nobility and royalty that could be traced in a few cases to the late Middle Ages."
http://www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?search=1&entryID=406
Posted by: JK | Thursday, 30 May 2013 at 21:02
Your question David, reminded me of a blogpost my boyhood friend now teaching English in the ROK (South Korea) authored some years ago.
http://gypsyscholarship.blogspot.com/2007/08/finding-myself-lost-in-translation.html
Posted by: JK | Thursday, 30 May 2013 at 21:25
Just back from London David after a few days in Coventry for our Annual Reunion. The mrs flew down to London to meet me. She went along to the Tate Modern to see the Saint's as mentioned on the review show but it was over, wrong information.
However I will mention Klee to her for our next visit.
Posted by: Jimmy Glesga | Thursday, 30 May 2013 at 21:27
Nae didn't read this in the entirest - jes' got pointest.
Talking amongst ourselve's we gen'rally spell it "Nae" - but when ye receives the same from JK it's gen'rally "nah" I'm figurin' to soot Limey extations of whatever yall've antispecteded from your Lords of Eton.
http://gypsyscholarship.blogspot.com/2007/08/ozark-wordlist.html
I would furtherance, Jeff was of som'eres else afore The Lord forebeared his acceptance inter the celestial Ozarks.
Posted by: JK | Friday, 31 May 2013 at 01:19
Thanks, JK, and I was struck by this quote from Hodges:
" Only the other day one of our neighbors remarked that he admired a flood which had ruined his crops -- meaning simply that it astonished or surprised him. (Randolph and Sankee, American Speech, Volume 5, Number 5, June 1930, p. 424)"
I checked my OED which tells me the word derived from Latin: 'admirari': ad = at; mari = wonder. Whodathunkit?
"the saints", Jimmy??? Who, what, where, when?
Posted by: David Duff | Friday, 31 May 2013 at 08:52
Typical of my wife to not listen properly. It was SAINTS ALIVE by Michael Landy at the National Gallery. It is on until 4 Nov 2013. And it is free.
Posted by: Jimmy Glesga | Friday, 31 May 2013 at 17:09
'Free'!!! You're 'Glesgie' heart must have been broken, Jimmy!
Posted by: David Duff | Friday, 31 May 2013 at 20:17
David. Glesga is the most advanced toon in the world. We have free entry to most museums and all that cuture thing. Yanks feeling the pinch are welcome, the Englanders and even the N Irish and Welsh. Eurozone skint tourists are welcome even you David are welcome.
Posted by: Jimmy Glesga | Sunday, 02 June 2013 at 23:27
Any free whisky? Ah, thought not!
Posted by: David Duff | Monday, 03 June 2013 at 08:45