If you are on the river Thames, you have finished Tower Bridge, the Shard, and the paella in Borough Market. On your way to Big Ben, you can actually visit the Tate Modern and Contemporary Museum, which is located along the River Thames in London and has a tall chimney appearance. The building, formerly London's riverside power station, is now hollow and tall enough to accommodate large-scale art installations.

The Tate Gallery in London has two:

One is Tate Britain near Westminster Abbey in Westminster District, where art works are more easel paintings with more classic European themes and history, while Tate Modern focuses on modern and contemporary art works, and the whole curatorial team pays more attention to displaying art styles after World War II. Schools and works born out of these ideas, here you can see some of the most pioneering and recognised modern and contemporary art in the UK.

🎫 Admission is free, take the elevator directly to the 2nd floor to start the exhibition! On the first floor are souvenir shops and cafes. On the second floor, you can press the direction of the elevator and enter the exhibition hall. The tour route of Tate Modern is very well designed. Walking down the second floor, you can see the most representative Modern and contemporary art works in Tate Modern collection, including classic Morandi still life, "Blue" by Eve Klein. Georges Braque's cubism (from which collage techniques are derived), as well as works by Cezanne, Picasso, Mondrian, and more, can be seen on the second floor of Tate.

Expressionists: Kandinsky, Munter and The Blue Ride Expressionists: Kandinsky, Munter and the Blue Ride

This exhibition attempts to tell the story of friendship through art. There are more than 130 works in the entire exhibition, which is said to be the first time it has been brought together in the UK in more than 60 years.

Part of what I love about this exhibition is that it shows the power of "art" as a collective movement. The Blue Knight here is not an isolated self-seeking, but an artistic network composed of artists that crosses national boundaries and genders.

In addition, the art forms of this exhibition are also relatively rich. Not only paintings, but also photography and sound. I personally like the part of the exhibition about Muth's photography, which is presented in the form of video ethnography. In 1899, she traveled across the United States with a Kodak camera. Her photographs of three fashionable black Texans, an African-American sheriff smiling for the camera, and various prairie features open the exhibition.

I recommend you to see it.

In addition, the tour route will be designed to interact with the audience and enhance the audience's understanding of modern and contemporary art is very interesting. For example, the first few exhibition halls are exhibiting some famous names in modern and contemporary art history, and then suddenly to an exhibition hall you will see all the art works that are close to "all white". Why on earth do these "calligraphy books" count as modern and contemporary? Are given tips for the audience to dig up on their own.

There is also the Colors exhibition hall and the photography exhibition hall, which show that in addition to figurative painting expressions such as lines, colors themselves have emotions and content; With the development of modern science and technology, photography as a way of artistic creation into the public vision and into the scope of art examples; In these galleries, imagination and creativity will be stimulated, and you can freely watch and imagine how these works bring you or want to feel.

There are also some paid exhibitions on the upper floors, such as Yoko Ono's exhibition and Expressionists' exhibition, which are very popular in Tate modern recently.

An animal garden recently opened in front of the Tate Gallery in London. Based on the dome of St Paul's Cathedral, designer Es Devlin has placed the silhouettes of 243 animal species into it, like a large, vibrant garden. In fact, they are endangered protected animals, has slowly disappeared in the field of human vision, behind the beauty is a sigh of vulnerability.

Walking past Tate Modern at night, I came across this dome installation on the square outside, designed by stage designer Es Devlin, about endangered animal protection. At 7 p.m., there is a choir singing, with the light projection of animal images, the vision is really great, a kind of broken beauty, passing by there at night, you can sit by the river and listen!