Dr Serena Trowbridge

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  • Love and Death at BMAG

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    While some of Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery’s Pre-Raphaelite paintings enjoy a holiday at Tate Britain’s Pre-Raph blockbuster, eleven Victorian paintings have visited from the Tate collection, which, combined with some of BMAG’s drawings, form ‘Love and Death: Victorian Paintings from Tate’. Two rooms of exhibits make up the show, and include paintings, drawings, sculptures…

  • Atlantic Britain

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    Another exhibition currently running at Tate Britain is ‘Atlantic Britain’, which uses art to look at the ‘Atlantic World’ that connected Africa, Europe and the Americas, in contrast to the traditional ‘island story’ and ‘national character’ approach to British art. The exhibition therefore offers to connect British paintings to “a larger history of trade, war…

  • Man being eaten by Chair

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    Whilst at the Tate, I also took a look at their ‘A Walk through the Twentieth Century’. Now, I think this is a great idea; it gives a good idea of the development of art and art movements throughout the twentieth century, and I also saw many old favourites (such as Stanley Spencer, The Woolshop…

  • Victorian Sentimentality

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    This weekend, I went to Tate Britain to see a little exhibition called ‘Victorian Sentimentality’. While the exhibition was just one room, it contained some Victorian giants, and was also immensely thought-provoking. The exhibition notes suggest that at a time when so many aspects of Victorian art have been re-evaluated, a rethink is overdue of…

  • Romantics at the Tate

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    Whilst in London, I went to Tate Britain to see their exhibition on the Romantics. The exhibition blurb claims that it ‘presents Romantic art in Britain, its origins, inspirations and legacies’, and I think it does this well. It’s in the Clore Gallery, where the Turners live, so it’s quite heavy on the Turner. The…

  • Turner as you’ve never seen him

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    On Saturday I went to see “Turner and the Masters” at Tate Britain, which seems to have unanimously glowing reviews so far, and I am completely in agreement with them. I took pages of notes so will attempt to condense them here! The premise of the exhibition is that Turner engaged publicly with other “masters”,…

  • Gothic Landscapes

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    Hockney On Turner, Tate Britain, 11 June 2007 – 3 February 2008 I’m happy to admit that I don’t know as much as I should about Turner (or Hockney, for that matter, though I love his trees – see Bigger Trees Near Water, right). Turner’s affinity for wild landscapes seems to be the focus of…