Aim: to visit and analyse an exhibition.
TATE MODERN
Level 2 Poetry and Dream
REALISM
Curated by Matthew gale
Realism itself was a contested term with different styles emerging but also different interpretations of its significance. It came to be associated with social equality - art made for ordinary people. In 1930's realistic styles were annexed to support opposed political ideologies.
Artists worked with and against these expectations, in some cases simply attempting to set down their own concrete experience within a world of shifting values. André Derain saw his sober work in these terms, as a timeless art within a historical tradition. By contrast, the tendency known as Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity), including artists such as Christian Schad, had an uncanny precision that startlingly captured the decadence of Germany in the 1920s. The murals ofDiego Rivera reflect an entirely different scale of ambition, that of the political purpose and power of making public monuments.(1)
Dod Procter 'Morning'
(fig.1. Tate, Morning by Dod Procter,1926)
This was voted Picture of the Year at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition of 1927 and bought for the nation by the Daily Mail newspaper. From c.1922 Dod Procter had begun to paint a series of simple, monumental portraits of young women that she knew, utilising the fall of light across the figures to give a powerful sense of volume.
This piece of art moved me the most from the whole 'Realism' exhibition as it is very effortless and natural. The soft colours of the woman's body are significant, so innocent and peaceful. However as this painting is captured of a natural pose and environment, the colours that been used such as navy shades for the background and peachy/ pinky tints of the body gives out so much worrying emotion. Therefore as the artist describes this painting, " As an image of awakening the carried allusions to regeneration and stability after the war". (2)
This is a great example of very successful piece of fine art. It gives out so many messages through simplicity and calmness. It is very inspiring and motivational, making the viewer to want to understand what is behind such a clean portrait and respond to it in own way. The smoothness encourages to take a paintbrush and recreate the feeling of art in real world.
Bibliography
1- (Tate, 2007, http://www.tate.org.uk)
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