Once More Dear Friends Unto The Tate Britain

It's always been a favorite London museum, the home to much of the nation's Turner collection and much other historic British art. Some of the best special exhibitions I have seen have been at the Tate Britain. But I think we may have finally hit our limit. The "modern" in-your-face installations are a distraction, and the moralizing all around is worse. Why not just display the great art and tell us about it, especially when you have a whole gigantic museum down the river reserved for modern "art" and its assorted "insights"? (The Tate Modern). Oh well, we visited--it's a short walk from our flat--and resolved to visit again, maybe some day when there's a special exhibition of interest or when we've forgotten the current experience. We looked at some favorites, some others, and moved on. A particular disappointment was the restaurant where Rex Whistler's fantastic (as in "fantasy") murals wrap around the room: darkened so you could see a grossly over-done video on the putative racism some see in the murals. "A child of his time" Turner would have said. 

In your face, in the main hall; with accompanying noise
from other rooms

The "benches" in the room, evidently intended for the kiddies, talk to
you when sat upon

Waterhouse, The Lady of Shalott, 1888

Also new to us, Sargent's Claude Monet Painting by the Edge of a Wood,
1888; the great portraitist of the age, Sargent also went outside on occasion

John Everett Millais, Christ in the House of His Parents (The Carpenter's
Shop), 1849-1850; occasioned a public outcry, led by none other than
Charles Dickens...

Millais, Ophelia, 1851-52; muy famoso

Now into the Turner wing, his very early self-portrait

Turner, View of Orvieto, Painted in Rome, 1830; we also like Orvieto

Turner, Snowstorm--a Steamboat off a Harbour's Mouth, 1842;
among the births of Impressionism...