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Big Ideas
Big Ideas: Why?
Click on the month to explore the theme:
28 JANUARY 2006:
Big Ideas: Surrealism
Donna Roberts from The Centre for Surrealism and its Legacies at the
University of Essex joins Raw Canvas to explore the new Poetry and Dream galleries
at Tate Modern. Looking at the work of Dali, Man Ray and other
surreal legends!
3 - 6pm, Level 2 Seminar Room
15 Places, Booking (recommended):
To make a booking call: 020 7887 3959
or email: education.bookings@tate.org.uk
25 MARCH 2006: How do you
look at art when you don't know what you're looking at?
Is experiencing art like entering a peaceful oasis or is it a frustrating and
exclusive experience? How are you supposed to know what you’re looking
at when what you’re looking at doesn’t resemble anything you’ve
seen before?! Looking at the Material Gestures galleries of
Tate Modern.
3 - 6pm, Level 2 Seminar Room
15 Places, Booking (recommended):
To make a booking call: 020 7887 3959
or email: education.bookings@tate.org.uk
Why the Series?
You know the saying, a picture tells a thousand words, with a Big Ideas session;
you get to hear at least a few of those words then look at the pictures that
tell them!
Big Ideas has been going for almost a year now - the format has been really successful.
We have an hour of informal chat with an expert in the field and then we go up
to the galleries and spend an hour or so talking about what we have just learnt
with works of art that illustrate it and extend the argument.
Feedback from our A-Z series showed that lots of people wanted to tackle important
issues within art but in an informal way (not a lecture). Many people enjoyed
questioning established ideas but wanted to be given information as well as the
tools to critique it with so that they could form their own opinions.
These workshops happen on the last Saturday of every other month. Each one will
look at one of the Big Ideas that have informed modern and contemporary art.
Previous Themes explored include:
Workshops are at Tate Modern from 3-6pm on the last Saturday of every other month. No previous knowledge necessary, just a desire to challenge art history!
Raw Canvas workshops are free and open to anyone between the ages of 15 and 23 years old.
To make a booking call: 020 7887 3959
or email: education.bookings@tate.org.uk
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