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| You say you want a Revolution |
One of the fortunate by-products of my volunteering is that I'm able to get entry to some rather fantastic exhibitions and Museums.
I've not been to the RA (The Royal Academy) before but chance to see two sides of difficult challenges (East Versus West) felt like a real opportunity.
Started off with Revolution (It's in the air as recent V&A and the current Design Museum exhibition suggests).
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| The West takes on the East |
Not at all sure that the layout and curation of the Russian Art is wholly successful and as we know the way it all goes perhaps a video of 'Political' prisoners who were (generally) executed could be considered a little heavy handed.
Noticed that BBC Newsnight's Steven Smith was looking around the 'Revolution' exhibition - which I felt in places was a bit depressing to see.
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| Really nice pictures |
In fact a reminder of how it all began to go wrong even before Lenin's death and then with Stalin as boss those in the countryside and Artists began to suffer.
Having said that it was a revelation to find new artists and some good stuff from Kadinsky and Chagall for example and there were some film clips from influential pioneers like an excerpt from Vertov's Man with a Movie Camera .
Great to see pictures by Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin with his quirky use of colour - a favourite being the Petrograd Madonna (1920) and thought the Girl in Football Shirt (1932) by Alexander Samokhvalov looked almost contemporary.
America after the Fall
Greatly enjoyed seeing the Edward Hoppers (Gas and New York Movie) and Grant Woods' curious American Gothic (as I've been reminded of before) though in the America- After The Fall exhibition.
Very clear that the USA at this time was looking to Europe for inspiration with examples of surrealism and an early (non splattered) Pollock.
Doors
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| £105 90 |
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| Well it was new once |
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| Another posh looking door |
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