On a quiet day in, I spent
time mounting in my Art gallery album the postcards brought back from Tate Liverpool,
one from each floor: floor one was devoted to Ellsworth Kelly whose coloured
shape combinations I viewed with the benefit of his quoted advice to “turn off
the mind and look only with the eyes”; floor two had put together ‘constellations’
of modern art thematically connected to a more traditional piece also on view,
so that provided a mix that happily included a Lowry, Pissarro and Picasso as
well as the abstract stuff (a piece of which I nearly rearranged by stumbling
against the tripwire protecting its sanctity); floor three made a connection (tenuous
to me) between Tracey Emin’s ‘unmade bed’ (on loan so she must be sleeping on
the sofa for now) and the work of William Blake, whose dozen or so paintings on
show were my highlight of the visit.
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