Exhibition Review "The Tate Modern Liverpool"

I have to get straight to the point when I visited the Tate Liverpool being that I didn't feel like I gained anything from the Artworks on show, this was most probably down to the fact that I had no idea what was on show. 

Tate galleries seem to be focused towards the Fine Artist, rather than a Designer, I find each piece of art hard to understand the meaning that the artist was trying express and even when I read the descriptive cards, I'm still none the wiser. I don't want to seem negative because I understand how many of these artists have all played their part in the evolution of art or inspired other artists/designers to evolve their own styles. 

In this first piece of Cubist Art which caught my attention, I failed to understand the meaning. Even after I had read the card I still was struggling, but I saw something else, I saw how this style and practise could have informed a more contemporary style know as Vexal art. Just like cubism, vexel art is a series of shapes and colours built up to make an image which can be more abstract than the example I have used from Paulinetje25.

Portrait of Jacques Nayral 1911, Oil on Canvas by Albert Gleizes 1881-1953

Vexel Portrait by Paulinetje25.
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Yet again I find myself in the same predicament when I looked at this next piece. Rather than understanding it's meaning I was more interested in the making and how it could work as some sort of graphics design pattern which could be used as a background for a architectural magazine because there was a link to this in the description.

Inversions 1966 by Mary Martin 1907-1969
Aluminium, oil paint & wood

I wonder sometimes if I'm doing this wrong but these are the fact of the matter is these are the things that I walk away from galleries such as the Tate. Looking back at the visit, I discovered that I'm more of a designer than an artist, the proof is in this last piece of work which I found in the gift shop. I was instantly inspired by the idea, the illustration and it's novelty idea and was a genuine highlight of the walk around the gallery.

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