Birmingham Art Trip - Birmingahm Gallery

Below are images that were taken from the Birmingham art gallery. This was the only art gallery out of the 3 that linked with my own personal theme 'war' so they are what my photos are based around:

These were buildings/landmarks that I seen between the different galleries.

This was the final gallery that we went to and it was also the best for my theme and from the gift shop I picked up a WW1 replica which is going to be great when doing my work.

Birmingham Art Trip - Walsall

 Below are photos that were taken on the trip to the art gallery in Walsall:

All things fall.

Matt Collishaw's work

Walsall was the first gallery we attended on the art trip. I started from the top floor and worked my way down the gallery. The top floor was my favourite as it had the 'All things fall', which was a sculpture. The room this was in had flashing lights meaning as you watched the sculpture it made it feel as if it was moving and coming to life. (first picture)

My trip to nuneaton museum and art gallery

For my own personal angle on the current theme we are doing (memories, time, fade and traces) I like to thing this links very well with war which is also my own chosen theme. I went to the museum and art gallery in Riversley park, Nuneaton. When I was out I took several photographs all of things that linked with war and some of these were paintings, objects and statues all things that I could then go onto to draw. Below are some of the photographs that I took: 

This was a poppy that was on a statue.

This is the statue where the poppy was engraved. This is was a war memorial for the first and also the second world war.

This is a statues of a solider from the war holding a rifle.

These are medals from different wars. The medal on the left is service for the Iraq war. On the right was a medal awarded to the Nato Alliance Forces in the former Yugoslavia since 1994.

These are different weapons used in the war for example canon balls and guns.

This is a painting of a solider that had been into war.

These are the clothes the men would wear in the first world war.

This is a picture of people wearing gas masks because when the was happening there was a lot of different toxins in the air that could kill you so people wore these to be able to keep clean and breathe easy.

This is a uniform that a solider would wear.

These a paintings were of the homes and villages during the war.

These were the helmets the soldiers had to wear during the first world war.

These were the gas masks that the adults and children had to wear over their faces during the war when it was happening to keep them safe.