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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Mark Brown North of England correspondent

Fostering curiosity: the Tate brings great art to the people of Merseyside

A young visitor admires The Cornfield by John Nash as Tate Liverpool joins Art Explora to launch the Mobile Museum.
A young visitor admires The Cornfield by John Nash as Tate Liverpool joins Art Explora to launch a mobile museum. Photograph: Gareth Jones

In a Merseyside car park eight-year-old children are cheerfully debating surrealism in front of works from a national collection which include a Turner, a Barbara Hepworth and a photograph of Claude Cahun pretending to be a stone monolith.

There is also a beautiful 1918 John Nash landscape of a cornfield and Peter Kennard’s powerful photomontage of cruise missiles poking out of John Constable’s Haywain.

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