Art at the Tate
Partner and I excursed to Tate Modern today to visit the Olafur Eliasson In real life - we were somewhat less than whelmed by the exhibition itself - not as good as the one I visited in San Francisco some while since - but we were actually quite impressed by the associated lunch event, Studio Olafur Eliasson Kitchen at the Terrace Bar, rather delicious - more so than one might have guessed from the menu description - veggie food.
However, the Dora Maar Retrospective was definitely worth the visit. Interesting her early involvement with commercial photography - not just advertising (some of which looks fairly surreal) but apparently also did erotic photography (not really much of that on display) - and then the confluence of social observation/surrealism (one is a little reminded of Mass Observation, which does not seem to have influenced her?). Exhibition does show that she was established and had a network by the time she met Picasso and there was mutual influence there going on (though apparently considerable emotional complexities given that he had other relationships going on). This entry was originally posted at https://oursin.dreamwidth.org/3016651.html. Please comment there using OpenID. View
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