Tate Modern Top 3 Picks

 Title of the art piece:

Diabolo – Le Diabolo  Bronze

Artist:

Germaine Richier 1902 – 1959

Artist Rationale:

Women’s entrapment within society – a piece with sinister overturns

Materials made of:

Bronze and Wires

Why it inspires you:

The deeper meaning within the piece; a representation of an unequal society throughout time. The wiring, a representation of women’s lack of pathways and opportunities. The sculpture shows struggle and an almost desperation for escape and freedom.

Potential ideas for theatre work:

Women’s growth and battle for a place in society throughout time. A timeline piece displaying a variety of time periods of inequality between sexes.

Title of the art piece:

Facism - The Most Evil Enemy of Women. Everyone to the Struggle Against Facism - 1941- Nina Vatolina 1915-2002

Artist:

A collection of works drawn by David King.

Artist Rationale:

A feminist piece based on the suppression of facism against women

Materials made of:

Works drawn by David King, the display accompanies a Tate book Russian Revolutionary Posters.

Why it inspires you:

The feminist stance behind the picture encapsulates women's vulnerability through time. I enjoyed the feminist art pieces at the Tate as they all represented a deeper meaning than what was on the outer layer. 

Potential ideas for theatre work:

A fascism society where women are faced with lack of opportunity and power. We could show a slow change in social order and women taking full power and control, standing on the men and taking over their freedom in a more sinister way to women's loss.

 Title of the art piece:
Nude Woman in a Red Armchair 1932

Artist:

Pablo Picasso 1881 - 1973

Artist Rationale:

This work belongs to the remarkable sequence of portraits that Picasso made of Marie-Therese Walter at his country property at Boisgeloup. Marie-Therese is presented here - as in most of her portraits - as a series of sensuous curves. Even the scrolling arms of the chair have been heightened and exaggerated to echo the rounded forms of her body. The face is a double or metamorphic image: the right side can also be seen as the face of a lover in profile, kissing her on the lips.

Materials made of:

Oil paints on canvas

Why it inspires you:

I love the experimental shapes and colours used in this painting. Picasso embraces a woman's curves and features with beautiful undertones and traits.

Potential ideas for theatre work:

Beauty of women in society and embracing flaws of women. Exposing a womans body and features and examining all of perfections an imperfections that make a woman a woman. 

I have noticed all of the choices I have made from the Tate are experimental but also woman orientated pieces. A lot of the pieces are feminist views.