The Hugh Lane Gallery

I have always loved visiting museums and art galleries, but I will admit in the past, I have not taken advantages of the ones in Boston.  I do plan on going to many of the galleries and museums here with my first one being the Hugh Lane Gallery.   The building is quite beautiful itself with three stories and many different rooms.  The main exhibit the gallery boasts is the home of Francis Bacon's studio.   Francis Bacon was an Irish born painter that was known for his graphic, bold, and emotionally raw paintings.   His studio was donated to the Hugh Lane Gallery by John Edwards after Bacon's death.     It was carefully reconstructed in the gallery with everything in supposedly the exact same place.    

One of his quotes is on the wall that says "I feel at home in this chaos because chaos suggests images to me.  And in any case I just love living in chaos.  I do like things to be clean, I don't want the plates and things to be filthy, but I like a chaotic atmosphere."   After a quick search about the life of Francis Bacon, it came up that in his early years that he was locked into a cupboard by his nanny for hours when he was young.  Many have suggested that this is why he thrived in a chaotic space and refusal to work in a large setting.  As you can see by the picture, he definitely was able to live and work in a very chaotic and cluttered area.  When looking into the room it was almost impossible not to look for at least five minutes because the room just had so many things inside it.   It looked as if there were at least five hundred paint cans and tubes splattered around the room.

The visiting exhibit to the gallery was by Richard Tuttle.  His artwork seemed to very minimalist with some of it having a childlike element to it.  The visiting exhibit to the gallery was by Richard Tuttle.  His artwork seemed to very minimalist with some of it having a childlike element to it.   In the first picture it is a piece of a wire that has been bent with a pencil drawing on the wall.