Carry on Walking (Walker Art Gallery)

Member Name: godownonme

Product:	Walker Art Gallery
Date:	20/06/02 (75 review reads)
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Advantages: shell suites aplenty

Disadvantages: boring

I do art in college and today we made a visit to the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool. First impressions, it looked like exactly like a typical art gallery, big, old and lots of pillars. Inside much of the same.

The first room you come to, just right of the foyet, is a room of sculptures. Ye Old white concrete sculptures. Much of the same, white lions, soldiers and woman etc. Not really to my taste.

The first and top floor, boasts well not much really, unless you are into ye old boring 19th and early 20th century paintings of countrysides and wartime. Each painting resembling the last, dark, dull yet extremely well painted. If you are into this style of painting, the paintings are of very high standards, as you would expect in an art gallery.

Also on the first floor you will find a strange gallery of dead stuffed animals, with paintings/drawings of them alive accompanying the corpses. Not at all to my taste.

The part i was looking forward to, was the modern art exhibition. But there were only about 10 pieces of work to it, if that. This was disappointing and what was there wasn't really anything special.

In a last attempt to find someting i liked, i went into the Paul McCartney exhibition. £2 extra, but i got in free with the college hurrah. Paul McCartney's work was quite modern in its style, and was a large exhibition with dozens of pieces of art work. However it was somewhat disappointing, the pieces were sometimes very similar, and somewhat lacked talent. I'm sorry to say the only decent pieces, were not paintings, but digital photos played around with a bit.

In conclusion if you're into paintings of coutrysides, and children with animals, you may enjoy the gallery, otherwise, i would advise you to stay well clear.


However my day was not totally ruined, i counted a total of 8 complete shell suites, and one big black male perm. These scouse stereotypes made my day, thankyou.

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