Tate Britain in general

My husband and I visited the Tate Britain yesterday, and I was rather excited as this was my first visit to the museum. The Tate Britain is a beautiful building which houses a collection of British art dating from 1500. Entrance is free (but donations are welcome) and the museum is easy to get to. The closest tube station is Pimlico. We used the C10 bus which runs from Victoria and stops very close to the museum. I was surprised to find that the museum is not particularly large and you can easily get through the whole museum in an hour or two. I was also surprised to discover that a large part of the museum is devoted solely to the work of ...  Read the complete review

Tate Britain- which was nearly called Tate 2 with Tate Modern being Tate 1- is an excellent starting point for exploring what it means to be British today. Tate Modern may be more glamorous but arguably Tate Britain provides the visitor with a more grounded and profound experience of art. It is of course principally an art gallery dealing with visual culture but the gallery is ambitious in its scope and smart curators embrace much more that what you see in the paintings, prints, photographs, digital works and sculpture. In its early days as Tate Britain, the permanent galleries were hung thematically, but interestingly, there were so many critics to the art of ...  Read the complete review

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 ...  Read the complete review

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 ...  Read the complete review

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' ...  Read the complete review