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Tuesday 5th February
Art Students Visit to Tate Liverpool

40 GCSE, AS and A2 level Art students visited Tate Liverpool in order to work on selected themes for coursework units.

They took part in a workshop conducted by Mrs Stonehill, working in the Educational Resource Room and in all exhibitions in the gallery.

This year is Liverpool's year as European Capital of Culture and the exhibitions cover a whole host of genres and art forms.

The DLA Piper series presents important historic, modern and contemporary works and explores the art of the twentieth century, and its legacies in the twenty-first, focusing on the development of figurative and abstract art.
The display is arranged thematically and divided into two main sections: Figurative Art on the first floor and Abstraction on the second floor. In each, a series of themed rooms present a rich variety of approaches to figuration and abstraction, revealing a century of influences, connections and continuities.

The special exhibition which the pupils visited was by an artist called Niki de St Phalle . This is the first major UK exhibition by this French artist who is best known for her Fontaine Stravinsky works on display outside the Centre Pompidou in Paris.