35 minutes on the train from Chester to James Street ...
then across the road to the Albert Dock to the Tate. There was rain at Wimbledon apparently but we had sunny weather.
We walked past the new museum which opens this month.
We were heading to the Tate for the Belgian Surrealist painter Rene Magritte exhibition.
"...and I make use of painting to render thoughts visible"
Magritte was primarily a painter of ideas rather than subjects. His painting of a pipe was entitled "This is not a pipe". Similarly his painting of an apple had the title "This is not an apple". Well he was right because you couldn't actually smoke the pipe or eat the apple.
"An object is never so closely attached to its name that another cannot be found which suits it better"
Bowler hats figured predominately in his work as did women's bodies!
He admitted that it didn't matter what colour the sky really was that day, he would always paint it SKY BLUE. PUSB! PUSB! Magritte must have been a Coventry City fan werhoooooo!
I liked his "frame within a frame" paintings but some of his work was a bit odd. (But hey, he painted SKY BLUE clouds!!)
On the ground floor were some works by Robert Therrien...
I felt like one of the Borrowers...
The chairs were magnificent but I have no idea how comfortable they were...
If you walked round these saucers they appeared to be moving. Very effective stacking.
Antony Gormley made a bread bed...
with two body shapes eaten out of it.
When I looked out of the window the tide was on its way in.
A walk back to the station through Liverpool One collecting a couple of tee shirts and a reduced Easter Egg (in July?) on the way (Green and Blacks)(Didn't last the night)
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