Wednesday 24 July 2013

Tate Modern London

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The Tate Modern in London, England is a modern art gallery. Tate Modern London’s National Gallery of modern art’s international for Britain. Based in a spectacular former power stations in the heart of London, the Tate Modern was built in 2000 and since then all Tate Modern has become very famous in the world as the Centre of modern art from around the world.

Tate Modern has many collections that includes all major modern art movement of Fauvism and so on. This is a great feature of Picasso and Matisse, Dali, Ernst and Mirò. There are works by Pollock, Naum Gabo and Giacometti and Rothko, Seagram murals that are displayed in the Tate’s famed Rothko. Pop art has its place, including the work of Lichtenstein and Warhol as well as Minimal art and conceptual art.

TATE Modern is the United Kingdom’s national museum of modern art. TATE Modern opened in 2000 and fast became one of the most celebrated London attractions with art enthusiasts. There is no admission fee to the gallery, making it one of the most popular free attractions in London. The gallery is based at Bankside on the Thames’ southbank, just yards from the Shakespeare Globe Theatre. 

TATE Modern houses a wonderful range of modern art, dating from the year 1900 up to today. The gallery’s main areas are the following: ‘Material Gestures’, devoted to abstract works of the 1940s and '50s; ‘Poetry and Dream’, a celebration of surrealistic works; ‘Scale’, which examines the practice of using scale to alter perception; ‘Energy and Process’, which looks at artists’ fascination with transformation and natural forces, and focuses on 1960s sculptural pieces; and ‘States of Flux’, which is devoted to early 20th-century art movements, such as pop art. TATE Modern's permanent exhibitions include works by such iconic 20th-century figures as Pablo Picasso and Salvador Dali.  

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