artsy

When visiting museums and galleries I often write down the pieces that I like just so I seem involved and artsy and interesting to the people who might be watching me from across the room. I'm looking at them so I assume they're looking at me. Museums are a great place to people watch and I often find myself more interested in looking at the hipster couple intently discussing the obscur stack of bricks on the floor title "untitled: en masse" than in looking at the work itself. I'm being a bit facetious here becuase I am truely interested in the works, and it is with the best of intentions that I make these records, it's just that I never look at these notes ever again.

So with a desire to start a new me, a me that follows through on what I'm truely interested in, I took notes on what I saw at the Tate Modern just the other day and I made the bold move of going on line and nicking the corresponding images from the Tate's website. I hope they don't come after me for some sort of copywrite infringements but here they are. This is probably more for my own edification than for anyone else since I doubt anyone else will care about the specifics of my taste in art.


Barnett Newman "Eve" (1950)
Barnett Newman "Adam" (1951)
Anish Kapoor "Ishi's LIght" (2003)
Fiona Rae "Night Vision" (1998)
Dorathea Tanning "Some Roses and Their Phantoms" (1952)
Yves Tanguy "The Invisibles" (1951)
Francis Bacon "Figures in a Garden" (1936)
Francis Bacon "Second Version of Triptych" (1944)
Cy Twombly "Quatro Stagioni: Autunno" (1993-4)
Cy Twombly "Quatro Stagioni: Primavera" (1993-4)
Mark Rothko "Black Maroon" (1959)
Mark Rothko "Untitled" (1950-2)
Gerhard Richter "Abstract Painting 726" (1990)
Cristina Iglesias "Pavillion Suspended in a Room" (2005)