Second Year Gallery Visits-
Scottish National Portrait Gallery-
I really enjoyed visiting this gallery as most of the exhibitions I seen were mostly photogrsphy, which what I was mostly interested in. The exhibitions I found most appealing were the portriture photgraphy. There were a large varity of different genres such as modern, historic and documentary photography, which is my favourite type of photography. One of my personal favourites from the exhibitions I seen, was the documentray photography which conentrated on different families in britian and there lives. One of the artists was called Thomas Struth. Unfortunatly, due to copy right I'm not allowed to show photograph of his work. Although below I've taken some photographs of the bits of work I was mostly intrested or liked the look of.
Link to Scottish National Portrait Galleryhttps://www.nationalgalleries.org/exhibition/when-we-were-young-photographs-childhood-national-galleries-scotland
Baltic Art Gallery
This next art Gallery I visited was the Baltic Centre Of Contemperay Art. There were a wide varity of different exhbitions during the time I visited, one of the exhbitions that stood out to me was an exhibition called "Starless Midnight"which was co-founded by Edgar Arceneaux. This group exhbition includes Painting, Drawing, Video, Sculpture and Installation. This exhibition I thought was one of the most interesting exhibitions I've seen at the Baltic to date. I found that each part of the exhibition was so different but also having the same meaning. This particular exhibition was based on Dr Martin Luther King's speech he gave, he spoke three urgent problems throughout the world, the problem to Racism, the problem of Poverty and the problem of War. I thought it had a deep and clear meaning and was very thought through. I could tell that they seemed passionate about what rights they believe in which is why I enjoyed looking and learning so much.
Link to this Exhibition since I've got no photographs available:
Salts Mill- David Hockney Exhbition
http://www.saltsmill.org.uk/
I wanted to visit more Exhibitions so I can broaden my mind to new artistic techniques. During the half term break, I visited a place outside leeds named 'The Salts Mill'. It had 3 main Exhbitions that I was mainly inteterested in which was featuring David Hockney. It varied from is oldest bit of work to his more recent art work. I thought all three of these Exhbitions were interesting as it showed that he liked to use more than one media for his art work, for example he used photography, painting and print making. I was mostly intetesed in his photography as I had never really seem him use a lot of photography. From these three Exhibitions, I realised that he mainly seemed to focus on interior or portraits of people. David hockney is one of my Favourite artits from the late 60's/70's as he had proven then you don't just have to work on more than one media and you can still make the work have you're own touch.
