Two Day trips

On Wednesday I went out to London with Pat to see Man Ray portraits at the Tate.  Wedesday was a good day to go to the Tate as it was Thatcher's funeral and tourist venues were virtually empty.  Man Ray was active in the20s and 30s.  I noted that his portraits of men have them staring direct as the camera lens, whereas the portraits of women are in profile or looking upwards or sideways at the lens, in a subservient manner.  the portrayal of the gaze varies dramatically, depending on the gender.

Then we went to the Tate, to the Prints &Drawings Room, to see the actual etchings and lithographs of Henry Moore's hand drawings.  Wonderful.

The following day Wendy and I went to the Kaffe Fassett exhibition at the Fashion & Textile museum.  then we went to the 20th century Portraits room at the National Portrait Gallery.  At the beginning of the Century, images were of the great and the good, like wartime leaders, but as the century progressed, scientists, suffragettes, artists, etc were on display in styles of their era.  Excellent.