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 One of my favorite works at Tate Modern London was the Chessboard   (pictures below). They are five plaster figures that have been sculpted and painted and installed on free-standing plaster supports. The figures combine aspects of both humans and animals and are semi-abstracted. The artist,  Germaine Richier,   wanted to depict the subject of the chess game and its parts in this artwork. The stumpy supports of the little figures were converted into much taller individual bases of different heights on a larger scale, giving the figurines a greater sense of potential motion.  The King, the Queen, the Bishop, the Knight, and the Castle are the five main chess pieces found on the Chessboard. The Castle is the only piece that has three legs and is the most abstract of the figures. Each one of the chess pieces is a roughly humanoid figure that stands on two legs. The Castle's body is a long collection of horizontal and vertical surfaces that rise upward in the form ...

  The Tate Modern London is home to a large hanging sculpture known as The Queen 1962 (photos below). The Queen  is composed of woven and knotted linen thread in a natural color and is suspended from bamboo poles. It is slightly over four meters high. At the top, it has a complex knotted and braided design. Below that, a narrower area gradually widens toward the middle of the piece before gently tapering off toward the floor. The braids may reflect Tawney's love for ancient Egyptian headdresses. At the same time, the knots are reminiscent of the nautical knots on the tugboats she observed from her riverfront studio in Lower Manhattan, New York. In the United States, Tawney was a pioneer of "fiber [sic.] art." She began her career as a sculptor before switching to weaving in 1954 at the Penland School of Crafts, where she learned tapestry under the Finnish weaver Marta Taiple.  The resulting artwork of  Lenore Tawney,  her use of bamboo poles, and her focus on us...

 Within Turbine Hall, the enormous post-industrial area at the center of Tate Modern London, artist Anicka Yi presents a vision of a future environment (video below).  Yi's installation brings back the presence of machines. Her airborne robots, dubbed aerobes, are modeled after fungi and marine life. It challenges people to rethink artificial intelligence and consider novel ways that machines might live in the world.  Yi is renowned for her experimental work that investigates the blending of biology and technology. She challenges visitors to consider developing their understanding of themselves as humans and the ecosystems we live in by erasing distinctions between plants, animals, microorganisms, and technologies. Here's a video I took of the aerobes. Yi's combination of technology and biology is truly amazing.  

Hague Yang frequently creates art by repurposing common household materials in unique ways. Over 500 Venetian blinds were used to create this floating sculpture. Yang's selection emphasizes the distinctive sculptural potential of these commonplace window coverings. They can be two-dimensional or three-dimensional, translucent or opaque, compressed or extended. This 2015 sculpture makes reference to Sol LeWitt (1928-2007), a conceptual art pioneer who produced work by adhering to self-imposed principles. Structure with Three Towers, a floor-based sculpture by Yang from 1986, is reinterpreted. Venetian blinds are substituted for the open-sided cubes in LeWitt's sculpture, which is divided into three sections and suspended upside-down from the ceiling after being magnified 23 times total (pictures below).  Yang challenges standards of authorship and originality by drawing comparisons between her work and that of a well-known artist from a previous generation. LeWitt's rules ar...

People can explore collections in museums for ideas, knowledge, and enjoyment. They are institutions that gather, preserve, and make available specimens and artifacts that they maintain in trust for societies.  People in art museums can learn from other people, professional artists, volunteers, museum educators, and other experts. They learn how to use museums with confidence and understanding, and they can learn about the various jobs that museums offer. When it comes to educating future generations, museums and other cultural institutions will always be necessary.  In addition to developing a respect for cultural institutions, visitors to art museums are more inclined to use the museums as a resource for lifelong learning in the arts. Museums not only help to bring history to life, but they also provide a unique window into the past, the present, and the future.  

  The capacity to come up with fresh, creative connections and solutions to issues is what is meant by creativity. Fostering resilience, igniting joy, and offering chances for self-actualization are all aspects of what drives us as people.  A creative endeavor can be vast and motivating, like creating beautiful artwork or developing a cutting-edge business. However, a thought need not be original or transform the world to qualify as creative. Everyday acts of creativity and original solutions are necessary for survival; therefore, creativity is a quality that practically everyone possesses.  The pictures below, which I captured at London's Tate Modern museum, is an illustration of creativity. I recall that bookshelves with various and vibrant prints spanned the entire area. Though the concept is simple, it is really unique and creative.

I took this picture on my first visit to Emmanuel Gallery. I loved the jacket's artwork. "Art jackets" are quite distinctive and cool in my opinion. An artist's creation or an artistic expression can be seen in clothing.  The production of clothing might be done for aesthetic reasons, political statements, or messages. Few companies that rely on consumers who recognize the expressive and communicative abilities of apparel.  Our clothing should be works of art, and how we dress ourselves should be a creative and emotional statement. When I see fashion as art I get inspired to clothe myself in items of clothing that I value as works of art. I get motivated to display my own creativity as it has been impacted by the creativity of others.