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Description: Tate Britain is a part of the Tate gallery network in Britain, along with Tate Modern, Tate Liverpool and Tate St Ives. ... more
Tate Britain in general ... It is housed in the Tate's original premises on Millbank, and was renamed "Tate Britain", when "Tate Modern" opened in 2000. It is now dedicated to the display of historical and contemporary British art. It includes the Clore Gallery 1986 designed by James Stirling which houses work by J.M.W. Turner. Tate Britain is the national gallery of British art from 1500 to the present day. As such, it is the most comprehensive collection of its kind in the world (only the Yale Center for British Art can claim similar expansiveness, but with less depth). More recent artists include David Hockney, Peter Blake and Francis Bacon. It has in focus rooms dedicated to works by one artist, such as: Tracey Emin, John Latham, Douglas Gordon, Sam Taylor-Wood, Marcus Gheeraerts II. Currently Room 30 is occupied by a specially constructed wood-lined room for Chris Ofili's work The Upper Room, 1999-2002.

Newest Review: ... and sketches led to the building of the Clore Gallery at Tate in order to do them justice. One of the greatest of Turner's masterpieces on show is the breathtaking 'Norham Castle, Sunrise', of 1845. The nineteenth-century Pre-Raphaelites – Rossetti, Millais, Burne-Jones, Holman Hunt and Madox Brown – who aimed at 'truth to nature', have a room devoted to their work. They reacted against what ... more

 ... they saw as the 'frivolity' of many of their contemporaries, and their religious and romantic paintings are noted for their luminosity. Millais' 'Ophelia' (from Shakespeare's play 'Hamlet'), drowning in the river, is one of Tate Britain's greatest attr...more

frangliz
Premium Review Tate Britain in general: The best of British art (793 words)
by frangliz - written on 20.10.07 (Very useful, 133 readings)
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Housing the greatest collection of British art which spans a five-hundred year period from 1500 to the present day, Tate Britain is deserving of a visit by any serious student or lover of British art. The displays are arranged chronologically and are changed annually, as the collection is too large to be shown in its entirety at any one time. One of the earliest painters whose work is on display is Nicholas Hilliard, born circa 1547. The eighteenth century is well represented: Hogarth was innovative in the early part of that century and made an important contribution to establishing an English school of painting. Those who love traditional portraits of that ...

quentin
Premium Review turner way (366 words)
by quentin - written on 10.12.01 (Useful, 159 readings)
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I have been to the tate britain gallery because my friend said quentin me old china time we learned ya some culture so we went a few weeks ago with my friend and his girlfreind and she wanted to see the nominations for the turner prize and some paintings and it was free to get in Most of the pictures were really good there was some of some women and some men and chairs and there was some carvings made from stone and some old roman coins and there was a room were a lady had squashed a lot of silver gifts and hung them from the roof by string in a circle shape and it was called 30 peaces of silver but there was more than 30 peaces but it did look really good And ...

peel.rebekah
Crowned Review Tate Britain in general: Sugar with your culture, sir? (1457 words)
by peel.rebekah - written on 25.03.01 (Very useful, 115 readings)
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In 1889, Henry Tate, the sugar magnate, wrote a letter proposing to the National Gallery a donation in return for a collection in his name, it was turned down. Soon after he renewed his offer to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, this time requesting an institution of his own, and possible loans and grants to realise his dream. In 1897 the Tate Gallery was brought into being: an art gallery that began life as the National Gallery of British Art, but was soon to extend its interests abroad, becoming the country's finest collection of British and foreign modern art. The collection began as an annexe to the National Gallery, housing 'modern' ...

 
 
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