Out of Hours

Context: Tate Modern

Introduction
Activity 1: Surrealism in the Salon
Activity 2: Art and Display
Activity 3: The Gallery Environment

Discuss: Dada, Surrealists- looking at the world in a different way. Reflect on last session's sculptures. What did they look like- silly? Bad taste? This was one of the Surrealists intentions... why? Discuss the social context of this art - war. Artists found war shocking - they wanted to make an art that reflected this and the world as they saw it. (Discuss: is this not what art is all about?). What was the 'accepted', 'high' art of the early 20th century? Who viewed art? Where?

Location: at Tate Modern

Learning Objectives

To explore notion of 'High Art'
To understand the term 'context' - what surrounds or situates something
To understand how context informs our reading/understanding of things
To recognise that artists now and historically have been interested in context, and for some this has become the subject of their work
To begin to understand why artists resist traditional modes of working, and reasons for provocation/subversion.
To investigate and record the context of artworks at Tate Modern