Two more museum visits to report.The British Museum has a wonderful collection of Egyptian & Mesopotamian artifacts that I thoroughly lapped up. Show me some clay pots, beaded jewelry, stone chisels, human and animal remains within glass cases, and I’m happy.
I also perused their great collection of prints and drawings that spanned from the 15th century to present day. Represented there are Albrecht Durer, William Blake, Henry Moore (the list of notables goes on and on). Think you’ll get a kick (as I did) out of Grayson Perry’s humorously self-deprecating “Map of An Englishman”—which you can check out in detail here.
Unfortunately , I didn’t make it to any of their other amazing collections of ancient Greek and Asian art.
Dane joined me on Friday on an excursion to the Tate Modern where, extremely lucky for us, we were able to catch the special exhibit entitled Dalí & Film. Oh gods of great timing, thou art kindly indeed! My humble eyes were able to viddy such amazing works as “The Persistence of Memory,” “The Metamorphosis of Narcissus” and “Sleep” (among many others!); see various paintings and drawings that were studies of film projects both completed and not completed; as well as watch the complete Luis Bunuel-Salvador Dalí joint Un chien andalou and the infamous and absolutely fantastic Dalí/Walt Disney film Destino. Infamous because the film hadn't been finished during their lifetimes for the imagery was too controversial for Disney to be associated with. It was finally completed in 2003, with modern day animators attempting to stay true to Dalí and Disney’s original vision for the film.
Unfortunately, Dalí's project with the Marx Brothers (he was a great admirer of physical comedians such as Harold Lloyd and the Marx bros) never came to fruition. One can only imagine the wild surrealist romp that would have been!
Easily, the Tate Modern proved to be my favorite experience of the entire trip.
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