Fun Friday at the Tate

Continuing in my plan to do something fun on Friday mornings, I decided to take in the Tate (Tate Britain - not the Tate Modern down the river).  Like the Victoria and Albert museum, I've still only scratched the surface.

 Here are a couple of favorites…Lucian Freud (Girl with Cat) for Bill.  He loves Lucian.

 This is by Peter Blake called "On the Balcony".  It's not something I'd usually be drawn to and yet all the little details were really intriguing.  It's painted to look like a collage.   I liked the black and white panorama of the royal family, the Jackie Kennedy(?) Life magazine cover, the Marilyn necktie.  I just googled Blake and found that he designed the Sgt. Pepper album cover - which makes total sense based on this pastiche.

There is something for everyone here.  There are rooms like this:

Right next to rooms like this:

This room included a few panels of vintage postcards - all of them showing "Rough Seas" around the UK.  The UK is dealing with flooding and crashing waves quite a bit right now so these seemed timely despite being 50+ years old.

 The pictures are great but strange for a postcard.  Do you write "Wish you were here (being sucked into the ocean by a giant tidal wave)"?

 I'll close on something more traditional….everyone loves John Singer Sargent.