Cleverly converted into the Tate Modern Art Gallery (daily 10am-6pm, Fridays and Saturdays until 10pm; admission free), the bleak Bankside Power Plant has retained much of its original industrial spirit while creating gorgeous light and spacious galleries to house Henry Tate's vast collection of 20th-century art.
It is best to enter from the west, down the ramp - you enter the huge turbine hall, which is a stunning sight. The galleries are fairly easy to navigate, with levels 3 and 5 hosting a permanent exhibition, level 4 being used for temporary paid exhibitions, and level 7 being a café with a great view of the Thames.
Considering that the Tate Modern is the world's largest contemporary art gallery, you will have to spend most of the day here or browse the exhibits selectively. Create your own personal itinerary (take an audio guide for an additional £2) and take the escalator up to level 3.
The gallery staff did not take the usual chronological approach, preferring to group the works according to the thematic principle: Landscape/Matter/Environment, Still Life/Object/Reality, History/Memory/Society and Nude/Movement/Body. In general, this approach turned out to be convenient, although the paintings of the early 20th century in gilded frames can hardly compete with modern installations.
Despite the fact that the exposition is updated every six months, you will surely see works by Monet and Bonnard, the first cubists Picasso and Braque, surrealists such as Dali, abstract artists such as Mondrian, Bridger Reilly and Pollock, as well as pop art masters Warhol and Lichtenstein. Shown here are works such as a replica of a wall-mounted urinal by Duchamp titled "Fountain" and signed "R. Matt", the all-blue paintings by Yves Klein and the famous mountains of bricks by Carl André.
The Thain-Modern Gallery in is arranged in such a way that entire halls are assigned to some artists; among them - Francis Bacon, Joseph Bays with his wax figures and furs, as well as Mark Rothko, whose abstract murals, originally intended for a fashionable restaurant in New York, occupy a central place in the exhibition.
History and exposition of the Thain-Modern gallery
The Tate Modern opened in 2000 in the former Bankside Power Station on the south bank of the Thames. In December 2012, it was announced that the gallery was launching a £5 million youth art program.
The National Youth Network for the Visual Arts program has been running since April 2013 for four years and should involve up to 80,000 young people aged 15 to 25 in the world of contemporary art. The project is sponsored by the Paul Hamlin Foundation, which has allocated up to 200 million pounds in grants over the 25 years of its existence.
- Turbine Hall (The Turbine Hall - Level 1)
Before reconstruction, the Turbine Hall housed the electric generators of the old power plant. This space is 3,400 square meters and is five stories high. Turbine Hall is used to showcase large-scale exclusive projects contemporary artists. The British-Dutch company Unilever has been a sponsor of these expositions from the very beginning.
Initially, this series of exhibitions in the Turbine Hall was planned for five years. The sponsorship agreement with Tate Modern was renewed three times. Another contract, for a period of five years, was concluded in 2010 and cost Unilever more than 2 million pounds. However, the huge success of the exhibitions caused the project to be extended for an as yet unspecified period.
The Tate Gallery in London is the largest complex art museums. Within their walls are masterpieces of British art from 1500 to the present.
By the end of the last century, the museum's collection had become so huge that there was no longer enough space to store it (not to mention display it). As a result, the collection was divided into two parts: contemporary painting (in the understanding of the curators, this is the 20th century), it became a separate gallery "Tate Modern" and the British "Tate Britain".
The Tate Britain Gallery is the English equivalent of ours.
The gallery was founded in 1897 by Sir Henry Tate.(he is the inventor of refined sugar and cotton candy). The museum's collection was formed thanks to the South Kensington Museum, and private collections of paintings. Their owners decided to donate the collection of paintings to the state.
Peculiarities
The collection of paintings in the gallery "Tate Britain" is strictly ordered. Each time period has its own thematic sections. Once a year, the set of topics changes, which creates interest and intrigue. The main exhibits of the museum are the paintings of the Pre-Raphaelites (a trend in English painting in the second half of the 19th century) and Turner's aerial canvases, which, unfortunately, are not represented in our country.
"Tate Modern" occupies the premises of a former power plant, its building is a full-fledged art object. Within its walls you can look at paintings by Dali, Matisse, Kandinsky and Picasso. Here, too, the exhibits are hung according to themes, only not historical, but more abstract: “Things in motion”, “Poetry and dreams”, “Significant changes”.
Tate Gallery Paintings
John Constable, Flatford Mill (Scene on a Navigable River)
William Blake
J. M. W. Turner, Snow Storm, Steam - Boat off a Harbor's Mouth
Sir John Everett Millais, Ophelia
Anna Lea Merritt
James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Nocturne: Blue and Gold – Old Battersea Bridge
David Bomberg
Oberon, Titania and Puck with Fairies Dancing, William Blake
Ecce Ancilla Domini, Dante Gabriel Rossetti
The Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke, Richard Dadd
Strayed Sheep (Our English Coasts), William Holman Hunt
The Little Country Maid, Camille Pissarro
The Death of Major Peirson, John Singleton Copley
Pylades and Orestes Brought as Victims before Iphigenia, Benjamin West
Tate Modern opened in May 2000. It exhibits works of art from the collection of the Tate Gallery, created since 1900.
In 1990, the need to separate the collection of 20th century art, both British and foreign, held at the Tate Gallery along with works by British artists from the 1500s to 1900s, became apparent. It was decided to create the first museum of modern art in the history of London by converting an existing building into a new institute.
The management of Tate Modern chose a former power plant on the banks of the Thames, closed since 1982. It was a striking piece of architecture in its own right, created in 1947-1960 by Giles Gilbert Scott. The power plant had enough space for temporary exhibitions and permanent exhibition and the position across from St. Paul's Cathedral and the City was an added bonus.
An architectural competition was announced, in which the project of the then relatively unknown Swiss workshop "Herzog & de Meuron" won. One of the main advantages of their project was the preservation of the original appearance of the building.
The main elements of the power plant are a chimney 99 m high, a turbine hall 35 m high and 152 m long and a boiler room parallel to it. The Turbine Hall now serves as a lobby and main exhibition hall. Instead of a boiler room, smaller galleries were arranged.
On the roof of the power plant is a two-story glazed penthouse, known as the "beam of light". There is a restaurant and a VIP room. At the top of the tube is a colored lamp designed by artist Michael Craig-Martin called the "Swiss Lantern".
Tate Gallery - The State National Museum in London, which stores over sixty thousand works of art: painting, sculpture, drawings, engravings. It is divided into two parts: the Tate British Gallery ( tate britain) or old gallery Tate, which is a collection of English paintings of the 16th-19th centuries. and foreign art of the 19th century, and Contemporary gallery Tate (Tate Modern) - European and American art from 1900 to the present.
The core of the Tate Gallery collection is Sir Henry Tate's (1819–1899) private collection of paintings by English artists. The gallery opened on July 21, 1897.
Albert Moore
Albert Moore
Albert Moore
The gallery has been rebuilt several times. In 1926, a collection of foreign paintings was housed in the new building. In 1979 - the opening of rooms for a collection of contemporary art. In 1987 - the opening of the Clore Gallery, specially built for the works of Turner (1775-1851), who bequeathed his canvases to England on the condition that they all be preserved as a single exhibition. Sir Charles Clore (1904–1979) provided funds for the construction of the gallery.
Alphonse Legros - Cupid and Psyche
Arthur Hughes
Arthur Hughes
During the Second World War, the gallery building was badly damaged as a result of air raids. The collection was previously evacuated. The museum fully opened to visitors in 1949.
assistants and George Frederic Watts
assistants and George Frederic Watts
attributed to Marcus Gheeraerts II - Portrait of an Unknown Lady
The modern Tate Gallery was opened in May 2000. The building was converted from a power plant built in the 1930s in the city center, opposite St. Paul. While retaining the exterior of the power plant, the architects completely redesigned the interior and added a glass and steel roof.
Augustus Wall Callcott - Sheerness and the Isle of Sheppey (after J.M.W. Turner)
Benjamin West - Cleombrotus Ordered into Banishment by Leonidas II, King of Sparta
Benjamin West - Pylades and Orestes Brought as Victims before Iphigenia
Benjamin West
The modern Tate has moved away from the traditional placement of works in chronological order. The collection consists of four large sections: "Still life, object, real life”, “Landscape and environment», « history painting”, “Nude, action, body”. The authors of the exposition combine different directions: the works of old masters with modern ones, painting and sculpture with photographs and video films. The gallery hosts many temporary exhibitions by contemporary artists.
Benjamin West
British School 16th century - A Young Lady Aged 21, Possibly Helena Snakenborg, Later Marchioness of Northampton
British School 16th century - Sir Henry Unton
British School 17th century - Portrait of Anne Wortley, Later Lady Morton
British School 17th century - Portrait of a Lady, Called Elizabeth, Lady Tanfield
British School 17th century - The Cholmondeley Ladies
Chris Ofili - No Woman, No Cry
Cornelius Johnson - Portrait of Susanna Temple, Later Lady Lister
Daniel Mytens the Elder - Portrait of James Hamilton, Earl of Arran, Later 3rd Marquis and 1st Duke of Hamilton, Aged 17
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
David Des Granges - The Saltonstall Family
Edward Coley Sir, Burne-Jones - King Cophetua and the Beggar Maid
Ford Madox Brown
Francis Danby
Frank Cadogan Cowper - Lucretia Borgia Reigns in the Vatican in the Absence of Pope Alexander VI
Frederic George Stephens
Frederic Lord, Leighton - Lieder ohne Worte
Frederic Lord, Leighton - The Bath of Psyche
Frederick Walker
George Frederic Watts
George Frederic Watts
George Frederic Watts
George Frederic Watts
George Frederic Watts
George Frederic Watts
George Gower
George Gower
George Mason
George Romney
George Stubbs
Hans Eworth - Portrait of Elizabeth Roydon, Lady Golding
Henry Fuseli - Percival Delivering Belisane from the Enchantment of Urma
Henry Fuseli
Henry Herbert La Thangue
Henry Moore
Henry Scott Tuke
Henry Singleton - Ariel on a Bat's Back
Henry Wallis
Herbert Draper
Jacob More
James Barry
James Ward - Gordale Scar (A View of Gordale, in the Manor of East Malham in Craven, Yorkshire, the Property of Lord Ribblesdale)
Joesph Mallord William Turner
Johan Zoffany
John Bettes
John Brett
John Hamilton Mortimer - Sir Arthegal, the Knight of Justice, with Talus, the Iron Man (from Spenser's "Faerie Queene")
John Martin
John Martin
John Martin
John Roddam Spencer Stanhope - The Wine Press
John Roddam Spencer Stanhope
John Singer Sargent - Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose
John Singer Sargent
John Singer Sargent
John William Waterhouse
Joseph Mallord William Turner Agrippina Landing with the Ashes of Germanicus
Joseph Mallord William Turner - Caligula's Palace and Bridge
Joseph Mallord William Turner - Cliveden on Thames
Joseph Mallord William Turner - England: Richmond Hill, on the Prince Regent's Birthday
Joseph Mallord William Turner - Fishing upon the Blythe-Sand, Tide Setting In
Joseph Mallord William Turner - Forum Romanum, for Mr Soane's Museum
Joseph Mallord William Turner - Italian Landscape with Bridge and Tower
Joseph Mallord William Turner - London from Greenwich Park exhibited
Joseph Mallord William Turner - Morning amongst the Coniston Fells, Cumberland
Joseph Mallord William Turner - Shipping at the Mouth of the Thames
Joseph Mallord William Turner - The Bay of Baiae, with Apollo and the Sibyl
Joseph Mallord William Turner - The Dogano, San Giorgio, Citella, from the Steps of the Europa
Joseph Mallord William Turner - The Ponte Delle Torri, Spoleto
Joseph Mallord William Turner
Joseph Mallord William Turner
Joseph Mallord William Turner - The Thames above Waterloo Bridge
Joseph Mallord William Turner - The Thames near Walton Bridges
Joseph Mallord William Turner - Tivoli, the Cascatelle
Joseph Mallord William Turner - Trees beside the River, with Bridge in the Middle Distance
Joseph Mallord William Turner - Union of the Thames and Isis (Dorchester Mead, Oxfordshire)
Joseph Mallord William Turner - Venice, the Bridge of Sighs
Joseph Mallord William Turner - View of Richmond Hill and Bridge
Joseph Mallord William Turner - Walton Reach
Joseph Wright of Derby - Vesuvius in Eruption, with a View over the Islands in the Bay of Naples
Lord Leighton Frederic - And the Sea Gave Up the Dead Which Were in It
Marcus Gheeraerts II - Portrait of Captain Thomas Lee
Marcus Gheeraerts II - Portrait of Mary Rogers, Lady Harington
Marcus Gheeraerts II - Portrait of a Man in Classical Dress, possibly Philip Herbert, 4th Earl of Pembroke
Phillip James De Lutherbourg
Phillip James De Lutherbourg
Phillip James De Lutherbourg
Richard Dadd - The Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke
Richard Dadd
Richard Dadd
Richard Wilson - Distant View of Maecenas Villa, Tivoli
Richard Wilson - Llyn-y-Cau, Cader Idris
Richard Wilson - Meleager and Atalanta
Robert Peake
School 17th century - Portrait of William Style of Langley
Simeon Solomon - A Youth Relating Tales to Ladies
Sir Anthony Van Dyck - Portrait of Mary Hill, Lady Killigrew
Sir Anthony Van Dyck - Portrait of Sir William Killigrew
Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones - The Golden Stairs
Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones - Vespertina Quies
Sir Edwin Henry Landseer - Deer and Deer Hounds in a Mountain Torrent
Sir Frank Dicksee
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A tourist trip to one of the largest centers of world culture and art, the city, where among the branches, heavy from centuries of history, threads sparkle with brilliance modern history, culture and art is nothing but a journey into the world of beauty.
A tourist trip to London is a string of attractions, including Buckingham Palace, Westminster Bridge, Trafalgar Square and a number of other interesting and famous monuments stories. However, the final chord in travels of this kind, which will bring the wanderer even closer to the world of goodness and prosperity, is a visit to the Tate Modern gallery.
Bowing before the majesty of St. Paul's Cathedral and descending narrow streets London to the left bank of the Thames can be seen on the right bank immediately after the Millennium Bridge, stretching upward brick smoke channel - this building is the famous Tate Gallery. This canal has not been fulfilling its functions for a long time and is a memorable sign each time reminding of the former purpose of the building standing next to it.
Once inside, every tourist has the opportunity to plunge headlong into the charming atmosphere of the world of art, which will leave an unforgettable mark on the memory.
A brief excursion into history
The first Tate gallery, known today as Tate Britain, opened its doors to the residents and visitors of London on June 21, 1897. Henry Tate, a well-known philanthropist of that time, is considered to be its founder.
100 years later, the Tate is still famous and attractive to fans visual arts, could not give enough attention and space for young talents, and for many well-known exhibits of the past. Therefore, at the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries, in the 2000s, one of the most famous galleries today, the Tate Modern, opened the door to the world community of artists, art historians and critics.
It is housed in a well-restored, not new, building of the Bankside Power Plant, which has long lost its relevance. And now the building, which at one time illuminated the residential and administrative buildings and streets of ancient London, illuminates with the light of long-famous world, as well as little-known modern masterpieces of art.
In the first year of its existence, Tate Modern received more than 5 million visitors. Today, this figure is much higher, and such popularity once again set the museum administration the task of increasing the area.
Therefore, in the near future (planned in 2016), residents and visitors of London will be able to see the expanded complex of buildings of the Tate Modern Museum. Where, by the way, not only above-ground structures in the form of one- and multi-story extensions to the main building will function, but also an 11-story 65-meter tower covering restored underground oil reservoirs from above.
And then the Tate Gallery will sparkle with new colors, both from the outside and inside, and the number of exhibits and the number of visitors will break the records of all famous museums in the world. And only the existing old brick chimney 325 meters high will remain the same recognizable memorial sign of London and the Tate Modern museum as well.
A short walk through the exhibition halls of the Tate Modern
When creating the Tate Modern in London, the organizers' initial idea was not to repeat and not to copy the style no less popular and significant in the world community art gallery contemporary art in New York.
Therefore, the canvases of both modern and long-famous luminaries of world art (Pablo Picasso, Claude Monet, Kazimir Malevich, etc.) are not arranged in chronological order, but according to the theme that expresses their meaning.
Tate Modern visitor (Alexandre Dulaunoy / flickr.com)
Since the existence of the museum, it has changed slightly, however, the theme of "Gesture Material" including abstraction, expressionism and abstract expressionism is represented by the works of Claude Monet, Anish Kapoor, Barnett Newman, Mark Kotko. And the theme "Energy and Process" is represented by the works of Alighiero Boetti, Kazimir Malevich, Ana Mendieta and other masters of art.
Tate Modern exhibits canvases painted since 1900 by well-known and little-known artists. For contemporary authors and young talents, short-term paid exhibitions function here periodically, or from October to March, a large turbine hall with an area of 3400 m2 provides space for large-scale compositions. For example, in 2012, the famous British artist Tino Segal demonstrated his "intangible art".
Except exhibition halls The museum building has a conference hall, a cinema hall, an educational center for young talents, several bookstores, a cafe, a bar and a restaurant.
The Tate Exhibition Halls welcome guests daily from 10:00 to 18:00, and only on Friday and Saturday the reception time is extended until 22:00.