London-Tate Modern-Baal the Warrior6
Jean-Michel Atlan 1913-1960 Baal the Warrior 1953 As a Jew and a member of the resistance, Atlan was arrested by the Nazis during WWII. Feigning madness, he was committed to a psychiatric hospital from which he emerged when Paris was liberated. He was in contact with Asger Jorn and exhibited with CoBrA in 1948-1949. His subsequent work combined abstraction with figurative elements. The title of this work refers to Baal, a Middle eastern Fertility deity, whose cult was regarded in the Judeo-Christian tradition as exemplifying the worship of false gods. (100300)
aperture=f2.8 focal length: 24.0 mm exposure 1/50 sec ISO: 2500
London-Tate Modern-Dome from the Tate1
The dome of St. Pauls and the Millenium bridge from the front padio of the Tate Modern
aperture=f5.6 focal length: 50.0 mm exposure 1/250 sec ISO: 640
London-Tate Modern-Door Number One7
Tanks
aperture=f2.8 focal length: 50.0 mm exposure 1/50 sec ISO: 2500
London-Tate Modern-H.. the Welder closeup5
David Smith (1906-1965) Home of the Welder 1945 Home of the welder was made shortly after WWII and reflects Smith's personal circumstances. He had just been released from his wartime job as a welder, which he believed had restricted his creative work. Like a coded autobiography, various elements in this sculpture relatre to his dreams and frustrations at the time. The millstone, for example, was identified by Smith as representing his job, while images of women and children may represent tensions in his childless first marriage. (L01025)
aperture=f2.8 focal length: 46.0 mm exposure 1/40 sec ISO: 2500
London-Tate Modern-Poem of Nine Verses3
Saloua Raouda Choucair (b. 1916) Poem of Nine Verses (1983-1985) Aluminum (T13647)
aperture=f2.8 focal length: 50.0 mm exposure 1/40 sec ISO: 1250
London-Tate Modern-S..rom the Tate Modern4
aperture=f2.8 focal length: 50.0 mm exposure 1/50 sec ISO: 2500
London-Tate Modern-Trip Hammer2
Richard Serra, (1939-) 1988, Steel Two sheets of steel are delicately balanced. One stands upright, 2.6m high and 1.3 m deep, and balances on an edge 5cm wide. The other rests horizontally on this thin edge, with its only other means of support provided by its minimum contact with the wall. This large, heavy work dominates the space in which it stands, both physically and psychologically through the anxiety it provokes in the viewer. (TO7350)
aperture=f2.8 focal length: 18.0 mm exposure 1/13 sec ISO: 640