Tate Britain

From Free net encyclopedia

Image:Tate.britain.arp.750pix.jpg

Tate Britain is a part of the Tate Gallery in Britain, along with Tate Modern, Tate Liverpool and Tate St Ives. It is housed in the Tate Gallery's original premises on Millbank, and was renamed "Tate Britain", when "Tate Modern" opened in 2000. The gallery includes the Clore Gallery 1986 designed by James Stirling and dedicated to work by J.M.W. Turner. Tate Britain and Tate Modern are now connected by a high speed boat along the River Thames.

[edit]

Artworks

Tate Britain is the national gallery of British art from 1500 to the present day. While individual works occasionally move between the different Tate galleries popular works usually on display at Tate Britain include:

Self Portrait with Dog by William Hogarth
Newton by William Blake
Horse Attacked by a Lion by George Stubbs
Study of a Pomeranian Bitch and Puppy by Thomas Gainsborough
Sketch for Hadleigh Castle by John Constable
The Great Day of His Wrath by John Martin
The Lady of Shalott by John William Waterhouse
Ophelia by John Everett Millais
The Death of Chatterton by Henry Wallis
Beata Beatrix by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
The Golden Bough by J.M.W. Turner
The Resurrection, Cookham by Stanley Spencer

More recent artists include David Hockney, Peter Blake and Francis Bacon. It has a room dedicated to work by Tracey Emin (currently in storage).

Tate Britain is attempting to reach out to a different and younger audience with Late at Tate on the first Friday of every month, with half price admission to special exhibitions,live music and performance art.

The gallery also hosts the annual and usually controversial Turner Prize exhibition, featuring four artists under fifty years old, selected by a jury chaired by the Tate Director, Sir Nicholas Serota.

Image:034215 tate draped.jpg

[edit]