|
Intro | Points
Of View | North | South
| Highlands | Midlands
| East | West | Conclusion
This is an exhibition about the way we think about Britain.
Do you believe that as an individual, you have been influenced
by the area in which you grew up? Do you believe that the picture
of Britain you have in your mind has been created, at least in part,
by art and literature?
The Picture of Britain exhibition explores these questions.
"The idea is that we don't just love landscape in Britain, but that
it is part of our culture and we look at it in a particular way
because we have been led to do so by artists," says David Dimbleby,
who presents the BBC television programmes.
Some of your ideas about living in the town and country
may come not only from art but from literature, music, television,
and movies. Your impression of 19th century England may have been
formed from the television programme North and South, or
from the book by Elizabeth Gaskell upon which it was based. You
might also imagine Victorian England through Charles Dickens's novels
or through images such as Gustave Doré's horrific prints of narrow
London streets and Luke Fildes' painting of a dying child stretched
out on two chairs in a poor man's cottage.
- Do you live in the place where you were born or have you moved somewhere else? Where have you lived longest? What place are you most attached to?
- Discuss the place you come from with your friends. Ask them what they think about the area you live in. How much do they think it makes you the kind of person that you are?
- Can you think of a book or a television programme which has created a vivid picture in your mind of a place at a given time? Are there paintings which you imagine when you are trying to evoke a period in the past?
|
- Find an image (from the selection of images provided) that is most like the place you come from and/or currently live in.
- From the selection of images choose the place in which you'd like best to live:
|
 Enlarge Image
Sir Arnesby Brown
The Line of the Plough exhibited 1919
© Tate 2005
|
|
Enlarge Image
Dora Carrington
Farm at Watendlath 1921
© Tate 2005
|
|
Enlarge Image
Charles Conder
Windy Day at Brighton circa 1904-5
© Tate 2005
|
Enlarge Image
Philip James De Loutherbourg
Lake Scene, Evening 1792
© Tate 2005
|
Enlarge Image
JMW Turner
Newcastle-on-Tyne circa 1823
© Tate 2005 |
Enlarge Image
LS Lowry
Industrial Landscape, 1955
© Tate 2005 |
|
|
View
in Tate Collection
