Comments on: 15 Ways Modern Art Galleries Can Inspire Writers

By: Joanna Penn

Joanna Penn — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 10:23:13 +0000

Thanks for de-lurking John I’m glad you also found the giant spider so fascinating – I also set scenes in these places. I have a scene at the British Museum in the recent religious relics exhibition – not so much modern as ancient art but really fascinating! We can take inspiration wherever we find it!

By: John Black

John Black — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 20:23:29 +0000

Delurking to say I love modern art to the point of obsession, find it endlessly rewarding for a lot of the reasons you do… I try to get down to the Tate as often as I can, at least every year.

In fact I’m so obsessed about it I wrote a novel set in it the world of modern art. There’s even a scene at Tate Modern with the giant spider! (I actually saw another of the spiders in Japan when I visited there a few years ago)

Also I find it great to not only look at visual art but have a go yourself as a change and a rest from writing – but that tends to be photography in my case as I’m too clumsy with a brush!

By: Maurice Nicholson

Maurice Nicholson — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 19:16:11 +0000

Nice post Joanna. I was lucky recently to visit the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin for an exhibition of the works of Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera. I had been in the house where they had lived together in Mexico City during a visit there some years ago and had found the work of Kahlo particulary stimulating.
This time again I found it really exhilirating and for days afterwards I found myself thumbing through the brochure and looking at the photographs of the paintings again and again. I guess it was because there was so much more to the lives of the duo than being painters of pictures. They were true revolutionaries of their time, living on the edge and their paintings were no more than the putting into form of their experiences, their thoughts and their ideas. This, I suppose is what we as writers are trying to do as well.

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By: Icy Sedgwick

Icy Sedgwick — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 00:02:48 +0000

You should’ve said you were in my town!

I’m going to pop along to the Tate Modern to try these.

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By: Ann

Ann — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 09:07:30 +0000

I’m off to Tate Modern today, post in hand

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By: IF – by Rudyard Kipling

IF – by Rudyard Kipling — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 10:03:30 +0000

IF – by Rudyard Kipling…

Seriously though, one of my favorite inspirational stories and thank you so very much for putting it up here- it’ s very nice to be reminded again of how enriched our lives really are….

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