Tate Modern

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Address:: Tate Modern, Bankside,
London SE1 9TG
England
Website:: www.tate.org.uk
Opening times:: 10 AM to 6 PM (Sun–Thu), 10 AM to 10 PM (Fri, Sat); Last admission 45 minutes before closing time; Note: Opening times can change at short notice. Opening times may not apply on public holidays.
Cost:: Free
Telephone:: Work +44 (0) 207 887 8888
Buses:: 45 63 100 344 381RV1
Trains:: Blackfriars CR DS, Mansion House CR DS, Southwark JB, St. Paul’s CNNote: The nearest station to Tate Modern is Southwark. We can help plan your journey from Waterloo, King’s Cross and many other stations
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^{Tate Modern gallery, London} Tate Modern’s colossal Turbine Hall

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Famous paintings at the Tate Modern

Mondora – Braque
Venice Woman IX – Giacometti
They’re Biting – Klee
Whaam! – Lichenstein
The Inattentive Reader – Matisse
Girl in a Chemise – Picasso
Weeping Woman – Picasso
Summertime – Pollock

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Tate Modern achieved great acclaim when in opened in May 2000 – before anyone even walked through the door. The Swiss architects Herzog & De Meuron transformed an old disused power station into a new London landmark – walking away with the prestigious Pritzker prize.

The building is almost as interesting as the art itself. Take the colossal Turbine Hall, for example. This was originally the centre-piece of the power station and now resembles the insides of a huge cathedral – 525-feet long and 115-feet tall.

The two-story glass block on top of the roof contains various cafes and viewing spots of the nation’s greatest landmarks.

Painting at Tate Modern

Art exhibitions at the Tate cover a broad range of painters from 19th-century Impressionists, to modern day pop-art. Film media, photography and sculpture all feature too.

The Tate Modern’s permanent collection is grouped into four broad themes: Still Life/Objects/Real Life; Landscape/Matter/Environment; History/Memory/Society, and Nude/Action/Body.

You can find works by every famous artist of the last two centuries: Salvador Dalí, Cézanne, Henri Matisse, Francis Bacon and Mark Rothko, for example. Not to mention works by Georges Braque, Jackson Pollock, Pablo Picasso and Andy Warhol.

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Fish – “I visited this the same day that I visited the magnificent ceiling painted by Rubens in Banqueting House, and I must say that I much prefer the classical and traditional styles of art I am not saying there is nothing to enjoy in t…”
SarahCroft – “As hard as I try, I just cannot bring myself to like contemporary art Some of it is great, but only the ones that are "traditional" And by that I mean paintings of objects, portraits, landscapes and sculptures ie, regula…”