Amazing coincidence of syncrinization…
Yesterday I learnt something interesting about myself….when I do things randomly I repeat patterns.
Yesterday went to the Tate Modern in London. I went to a meeting- it finished early I thought I’ll go and see a few paintings… As always when I go to the Tate they were between exhibitions in the Turbine hall…as always I was overwhelmed by the scale etc I aimless went to the third floor…took a left and found myself in the USB Openings gallery..I wondered around a bit before being grabbed by something. A Kandinsky…I love Kandinsky prob my favourite artist. Next I saw a Pollock- this was really interesting as I’ve never seen one before. I’ve seen postcards and Pollockesq works but not an actual Pollock. I’ve always thought he was a bit…crap. But seeing the real thing was different- I thought there is something here. I even read the little plaque and learnt about fractuals…and I could see what they ment there was a pattern to his work.
I saw a Rothoko, then a Monet..as I looked at the Monet I was amazed by how different that was from the calendars etc, how much more depth of feeling and how it was a picture of a day as much of Lilliies. The calenders etc tend to show the lillies much more distinctly and so lose some of the rest. I was getting a bit of a feeling of Deja vue at this point…
Then I went into the Rothoko room and was stunned- it took my breath away it was so deep and dark and brooding…I want to lie on the floor and brood…Obviously I didn’t I thought it might upset the Japenese tourists…
Anyway I read the sign outside the Rothoko room, how it had originally been painted for a restaurant but hadn’t really been suitable…and I realised that this was more than deja vue. I had actually been to the same gallery, been grabbed my the same paintings and thought the same thoughts before…
Apart from the Pollock. I hadn’t seen that.
