Queen Anne's School, News & Events

On arrival at Tate Britain I marvelled at the high ceilings and the statue in the entrance. As we headed for the first painting I saw some weird pieces of art consisting of rope and pillars of fabric. Then we got whisked away to look at some other wonderful paintings and sculptures.

Through the day we saw many peculiar objects and paintings. We saw several abstract pictures with complementary colours and different shapes. We also saw a spectacular display of white glass objects of all shapes and at different stages of time, some broken, some tall and thin, others short and wide. The whole thing was in the shape of a pyramid.

Drawing by Izzy Beech of Griselda, a bronze by Alfred Drury

After lunch we headed for the sculpture room, where I drew a young lady called Griselda, by Alfred Drury.

We also saw a man wrestling a python, made of bronze. The statue was huge and magnificent. At the end of the day we returned to the coach and talked about our fantastic day at the gallery, which was a great experience.

Izzy Beech, 4s

Our tour of the gallery began with a fascinating statue made by Henry Moore and finished with a room called ‘Sublime', which was one of my favourite rooms.

My favourite piece of art was an amazingly beautiful piece of work called ‘Hearts are Trumps', a painting of three beautiful young ladies, who I think were sisters, which was very detailed and had great techniques. I also particularly loved all the words around one of the rooms which contained pretty much every word, written, spoken, heard or overheard in 1989. It was filled with a variety of peculiar phrases that I found really interesting.

Lydia Marshall, 4s

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