Gallery Visit - Tate Modern

Gallery Visit - Tate Modern

Introduction

Built in a disused power station designed by Giles Gilbert Scott, Tate Modern is one of the landmarks of New London. In 1917, the newly renamed Tate Modern, officially assumed the responsibility to expose the national collection of modern art, belonging to both the British and foreign artists. From then until 2000, this collection was exhibited at the building occupied by the Tate Gallery, in the central London1. Throughout this time, it was discussed to allow free exhibition space and strengthen the identity of the collections. This option began to take hold in the late 80s, having taken the decision to create a new gallery of modern art at the earliest possible. In December 1992, it was announced to create the new Tate Gallery of Modern Art for the year 2000, and began the search for the right place for the new museum, which would be the first dedicated to modern art of Britain and beyond. The collection is organized around a series of themed courses, rather than chronologically. Tate Modern displays seven levels dedicated to artistic creations of the twentieth-and twenty-first centuries, including two levels devoted to permanent exhibitions1.

Analysis of the Art Works

Unique Forms of Continuity in Space 1913

Subject Matter: Break-free from the past and engaging in the modern world. The artist Umberto Boccioni shows the need to adopt the future while leaving the past behind. He emphasizes an orientation of future and the need to keep pace with the changing times. Boccioni attempts to illustrate the interaction between a moving object and the surrounding space.

Composition: If you look at the sculpture side, you can easily recognize a human figure in no way, however, some parts (e.g. arms) and, so to speak, of its "shell" exterior. The figure looks like a verse as a "skinned" anatomical structure, transiting to another as a "machine" as a cog in motion4. The work also grows through the alternation of cavities, surveys, plans and voids that create a fragmented and discontinuous chiaroscuro made frequent and abrupt transitions from light to shadow. Looking at the figure on the right, such as the torso seems to be full but if you turn around the statue and you look from the left it turns into a hollow cavity. In this way it appears that the figure models depending on the surrounding space and thus assumes the function of shaping so to say forms. The contour line is developed as a sequence of concave curves hours, now convex: in this way the irregular contours do not limit the figure, as usual, but the dilate expanding it in space3.

Colour: The artist utilized contemporary colors in this artistic piece. The rich luster of the bronze material accentuates the contrasts better than other materials, the dynamism and vitality.

Materials and Techniques: In full respect of the theory of Futurism, according to which everything moves, nothing is stationary, Boccioni came to one of the best examples of his sculpture, playing is the movement ...