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 Dugald Macinnes
Scathing Comment - Slate the Tate?
The apparent refusal of the Tate to come to terms with mosaic as an expressive art form reminded me of a comment made by Alan Davie, the painter of international repute, to George Garson, Scotland's foremost mosaicist. Garson had just completed a large-scale external mosaic mural in Grangemouth (an interpretation of a Davie painting, commissioned to celebrate the artist's connection with that town) when, completely by chance, the two met at the site. The delighted Davie grabbed Garson and told him that if the building was ever demolished, the mosaic would be hung in the Tate! Would the Tate refuse it, one wonders, or, for that matter, a Severini, an Unger or a Fontana to name but a few? Incidentally, the Tate Liverpool has a mosaic - a 'Millennium Mosaic'. It is on their website. Check it out!
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