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By *ackformore100 OP   Man
over a year ago

Tin town

Not something I know much about. Do we have NY art lovers in the house? What? Where? Who? Why?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Proper art, like paintings that actually look like things .. yeah I can appreciate a good piece.

Modern art where it’s just splatters of paint on a canvas or a bin emptied out in a room and then some artist talks pretentiously about the inner meanings of anxiety and delirium .. bollox to it all.

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By *tephTV67TV/TS
over a year ago

Cheshire

Edward Hopper ‘Nighthawks’ love that picture.

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By *elaninMaverickWoman
over a year ago

near Putney Heath


"Not something I know much about. Do we have NY art lovers in the house? What? Where? Who? Why? "

NY as in New York?

I studied Art up to GCSE level mainly European Art.

I have been known to walk around the Portrait Gallery, Tate Modern, The Saatchi Gallery, Christie's lates and a few galleries/museums in the south of France.

I can relate to most types of art but I realize now that might just be the neurodivergent side of me.

Why has this interest in Art popped up for you OP?

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By *ackformore100 OP   Man
over a year ago

Tin town


"Not something I know much about. Do we have NY art lovers in the house? What? Where? Who? Why?

NY as in New York?

I studied Art up to GCSE level mainly European Art.

I have been known to walk around the Portrait Gallery, Tate Modern, The Saatchi Gallery, Christie's lates and a few galleries/museums in the south of France.

I can relate to most types of art but I realize now that might just be the neurodivergent side of me.

Why has this interest in Art popped up for you OP?"

First off NY is a stupid typo... Should say "any".... As for why... I'm just sat her pondering the error of my ways and realised what a cultural desert I am when it comes to art.... And how I'd like to experience more of it. I've done lots of the classical galleries.. But I know there are lots of smaller galleries dotted around. I know Fabs fora have a very broad church so open to learning

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By *icecouple561Couple
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over a year ago

East Sussex

There's an art gallery in Bexhill in the De La Warr pavilion that has around three to five exhibitions a year. We try to go to them all. We don't know much about art (zero) but we find it interesting and thought provoking to go and look. One that really stands out in my mind is a film of a man dressed as Jack in the green riding a scooter round country lanes. Another was a film of a boy on a BMX on a wet pavement at the front of the building with some very odd accompanying music. The exhibit I thought was the most lazy was a jar of pasta letters.

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By *eroLondonMan
over a year ago

Mayfair

I went to the Milton Avery exhibition last month, at The Royal Academy. There were some celebrated gems within the collection, appealing and visually compelling. However, with that said his art wasn't really my cup of tea. I prefer his other compatriots.

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By *ce WingerMan
over a year ago

P.O. Box DE1 0NQ

Not been to many in the UK, but went to a few in Spain, some of the paintings are brilliant, especially in the churches

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By *icecouple561Couple
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over a year ago

East Sussex

We were at Petworth recently. They've got a huge art collection including a couple of Turners. The guides are very well informed and you can learn a lot just by listening to them

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By *elaninMaverickWoman
over a year ago

near Putney Heath


"Not something I know much about. Do we have NY art lovers in the house? What? Where? Who? Why?

NY as in New York?

I studied Art up to GCSE level mainly European Art.

I have been known to walk around the Portrait Gallery, Tate Modern, The Saatchi Gallery, Christie's lates and a few galleries/museums in the south of France.

I can relate to most types of art but I realize now that might just be the neurodivergent side of me.

Why has this interest in Art popped up for you OP?

First off NY is a stupid typo... Should say "any".... As for why... I'm just sat her pondering the error of my ways and realised what a cultural desert I am when it comes to art.... And how I'd like to experience more of it. I've done lots of the classical galleries.. But I know there are lots of smaller galleries dotted around. I know Fabs fora have a very broad church so open to learning "

I don't really know out side of London. I think when I left Nottingham there were only two serious art galleries there.

When you say "classical" do you mean Classical art or the classical galleries that they take kids on a school trip to?

Either way I had a great time at the Christies lates pre-pandemic. They had classical art, then art dedicated to the jewish artists, art college students, then victoriana mechanical curiosities "a pair of Queen victoria's underpants" and then a celebration of comic book art and a discussion on the Pantone colour of the year which was green at the time.

My local borough Wandsworth every year puts on Wandsworth Fringe Arts and you actually get to visit some of the local artists in their homes. My local area has about 5 year-long small galleries with a new one on the high street.

Some theatres and cinemas also put on small exhibitions and talks as well.

The Metro paper does have a culture section with information about smaller exhibits and Timeout London has a wider selection of museums and galleries and theatres in the wider London Boroughs.

I'm lucky because I live a short bus ride from Battersea Arts centre which is more about the local people than national and international artists.

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By *ampWithABrainWoman
over a year ago

Glasgow

Lucky enough to have amazing galleries and art shops etc in glasgow which I can easily spend hours in.

Can’t draw to save my life myself! But express myself creatively in other forms.

There’s a huge range from “looks like a real thing” art to surrealist, abstract and yes the plain splotches on a canvas stuff which I’ll admit I’m also not generally a fan of. But I love Dali, Magritte, varo, chagalle… as well as monet, Van Gogh, Rembrandt etc

Love seeing works by less well known and contemporary artists too, saw an amazing exhibit of Japanese metallic etchings once such intricate work you have to admire the skill if nothing else.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Not something I know much about. Do we have NY art lovers in the house? What? Where? Who? Why? "

Not from New York but I spent three years studying art and design at college, I’m now a commission based portrait artist and also have a colouring book being published

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