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Month: February 2013

Posted on February 15, 2013June 3, 2015

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This blog is run by the Art History Department at the Open University. It is part of the Open Arts Archive, an online platform that provides free access to a wealth of artistic, cultural and educational resources, including free films on art objects, seminars, study days, artists’ podcasts, artist interviews, curators’ talks and exhibitions. http://www.openartsarchive.org/

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Today's #materialmondays is some medical advice fr Today's #materialmondays is some medical advice from the #Renaissance: in the domestic environment, scattering flowers and fragrant herbs on tables and floors as well as burning aromatic substances was recommended during periods of epidemics. We're not advising this to counteract #covid, but it will make your house smell pleasant! Here's a #woodcut of a Renaissance #distillery, producing #essentialoils from plants. #arthistory #ouarthistory #artists #historyofart #OUrArtHistory #artstagram #artoftheday #arteducation #art #whyarthistorymatters #artmatters #arteducationmatters #renaissanceremedies
Today's #materialmondays is in honour of #toulouse Today's #materialmondays is in honour of #toulouselautrec's birth anniversary tomorrow. It's a #lithograph from 1895 of May Belfort, an Irish singer well-known on the Parisian nightclub scene, who was often seen with her black #cat! 📷: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York #arthistory #ouarthistory #artists #historyofart #OUrArtHistory #artstagram #artoftheday #arteducation #art #whyarthistorymatters #artmatters #arteducationmatters
Today's #MaterialMonday is Chila Kumari Singh Burm Today's #MaterialMonday is Chila Kumari Singh Burman's Tate Britain Winter commission, 'remembering a brave new world', which has been installed on the façade of the building to coincide with #Diwali  - the Hindu, Sikh and Jain festival of lights. Image: Tate (Joe Humphrys). The installation 'combines Hindu mythology, Bollywood imagery, colonial history and personal memories' of the Blackpool Illuminations and the family ice cream van. https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/exhibition/chila-kumari-singh-burman #ArtHistory #OUArtHistory #Artists #HistoryOfArt #OUrArtHistory #ArtOfTheDay #ArtEducation #Art #WhyArtHistoryMatters #ArtMatters #ArtEducationMatters
William Hogarth was born on this day in 1697. Some William Hogarth was born on this day in 1697. Some of his paintings were lost/destroyed/exist only in print form – but that didn’t stop other artists from imagining what they looked like! Here’s a copy after Hogarth’s A Midnight Modern Conversation,from @YaleBritishArt This artist decided to change the format – why do you think they did this? #otd #hogarth
William Hogarth was born on this day in 1697. Some William Hogarth was born on this day in 1697. Some of his paintings were lost/destroyed/exist only in print form – but that didn’t stop other artists from imagining what they looked like! Here’s a copy after Hogarth’s A Midnight Modern Conversation from @leicestermuseums which is due to appear in an exhibition on Hogarth opening next year, co-curated by OU Lecturer Samuel Shaw. #otd
William #Hogarth was born on this day in 1697. Som William #Hogarth was born on this day in 1697. Some of his paintings were lost/destroyed/exist only in print form – but that didn’t stop other artists from imagining what they looked like! Here are three copies after Hogarth’s A Midnight Modern Conversation, all available on @artukdotorg The first is from @petworthnt #OTD
Today's #materialmondays is to mark #remembranceda Today's #materialmondays is to mark #remembranceday: #BloodSweptLands and #SeasofRed by #paulcummins and #tompiper. Watch our #openartsobjects #film on the #criticalterm #commemoration, to understand what commemoration means in architectural/art historical terms -link in bio 📷: @tinzarella #lestweforget #arthistory #ouarthistory #artists #historyofart #OUrArtHistory #artstagram #artoftheday #arteducation #art #whyarthistorymatters #artmatters #arteducationmatters
Today is #GuyFawkes as well as marking the start o Today is #GuyFawkes as well as marking the start of a second #lockdown in England. So we've got two images for you: one of #fireworks and one of the #interior that we have become so used to seeing behind colleagues and friends in online calls. Stay safe everyone! 1: Fireworks by Wilhelmina Barns-Graham (Photo credit: Wilhelmina Barns-Graham Trust) 2: Untitled by Thelma Forbes (Photo credit: Art & Heritage Collections, Robert Gordon University), both from @artukdotorg * #lockdown2 #stayathome #arthistory #ouarthistory #artists #historyofart #OUrArtHistory #artstagram #artoftheday #arteducation #art #whyarthistorymatters #artmatters #arteducationmatters
Today's #materialmondays comes from Robert Wallis Today's #materialmondays comes from Robert Wallis (@artarchaeologynow ), who has recently joined the Art History department at the OU: A decorated ivory plate, 6th century CE, made by walrus hunters of the Bering Strait, displayed at the ‘Arctic: Culture and Climate’ exhibition at the @britishmuseum, which opened last week. #Ivory was important to these early Arctic communities and used for a variety of objects including tools such as the blades of harpoons. Such sophisticated artworks show interlocking and shape-shifting polar bears, seals, humans and other animals which, according to the British Museum website, ‘suggest these communities were trying to understand or even control the forces of the universe’. Put differently, the hunters understood their world as animate and related to other beings, including those they hunted, not as resources to be profited from but as ‘persons’ who demanded due respect, etiquette and honouring. Hunters and shamans operated between the worlds of humans and others, negotiating a fragile network of relationships. The exhibition ‘explores the history of the Circumpolar North and its peoples through the lens of climate change and weather, drawing on a wealth of objects, artworks and voices from past and present, to show how Arctic Peoples and their cultural traditions have continued to thrive amid both social and environmental change’. It is a ‘must-see’ show, until 21 February 2021. 📷: from BM website, and the object is loaned from the Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera) of the Russian Academy of Sciences. #arthistory #ouarthistory #artists #historyofart #OUrArtHistory #artstagram #artoftheday #arteducation #art #whyarthistorymatters #artmatters #arteducationmatters #arcticcultureandclimate #hunters #thebritishmuseum #ivory #walrusivory #beringstrait #shapeshifting #animism #relationality #shamans #circumpolarnorth #climatechange #arcticpeople #firstpeople #indigenouspeople #survivance
Happy #Halloween! Here’s an #illumination of The Happy #Halloween! Here’s an #illumination of The Three Living and the Three Dead and Decorated Text Page in the Crohin-LaFontaine Hours,about 1480—85, Master of the Dresden Prayer Book or workshop. The J. Paul Getty Museum, Ms. 23, fols. 146v–147. Read more on deathly meditations in medieval manuscripts on the @gettymuseum blog: https://blogs.getty.edu/iris/deathly-meditations-in-medieval-manuscripts/ #arthistory #ouarthistory #artists #historyofart #OUrArtHistory #artstagram #artoftheday #arteducation #art #whyarthistorymatters #artmatters #arteducationmatters #manuscriptillumination #mementomori
Today's #materialmondays marks the last Monday of Today's #materialmondays marks the last Monday of #BlackHistoryMonth2020. It's a #portrait of Thomas Williams, a black sailor, by the artist John Downman from 1815, in the Tate's collections. You can read more about the history of black mariners over on @artukdotorg’s blog (https://artuk.org/discover/stories/the-neglected-history-of-black-mariners), and also at the exhibition 'Black Greenwich Pensioners' at the Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich from 3rd October 2020 to 21st February 2021. #blm #blackhistorymonth #arthistory #ouarthistory #artists #historyofart #OUrArtHistory #artstagram #artoftheday #arteducation #art #whyarthistorymatters #artmatters #arteducationmatters
We are releasing our statement in response to #Bla We are releasing our statement in response to #BlackLivesMatter, after a period of reflection, as a statement of solidarity now in the context of #BlackHistoryMonth, and as a promise of commitment to concrete action beyond this month. #blm #arthistory #ouarthistory #artists #historyofart #OUrArtHistory #artstagram #artoftheday #arteducation #art #whyarthistorymatters #artmatters #arteducationmatters
Today's #materialmondays continues for #blackhisto Today's #materialmondays continues for #blackhistorymonth. This is Winston Levy’s Jamaica shirt, a passenger on board the boat, Empire Windrush. Levy brought this shirt with him to remind him of #Jamaica. Winston Levy is the father of novelist Andrea Levy. You can read the full story here on the @britishlibrary’s website: https://www.bl.uk/windrush/articles/back-to-my-own-country-an-essay-by-andrea-levy 📷: © By kind permission of Andrea Levy #arthistory #ouarthistory #artists #historyofart #OUrArtHistory #artstagram #artoftheday #arteducation #art #whyarthistorymatters #artmatters #arteducationmatters #blm #windrush
“My object is a Chinese ginger jar / medicine ja “My object is a Chinese ginger jar / medicine jar.   15 cm high, hexagonal, I think soft paste porcelain. Made in china written on the base in blue Chinese kanji. ⠀  ⠀ I've probably had this about a decade, it most likely came from either a car boot sale or charity shop and was bought specifically for the pictures and as a display piece at home. ⠀ ⠀ From when I was younger, I've always seen functional objects repurposed for decoration.  Years ago, i had a particular taste for Chinese art, particularly because of the representation of orientalised themes and the lack of block filled backgrounds.  The use of only a few colours too adds to its charm in my opinion.”  - Amy Laverick⠀ ⠀ ✨⠀ During the Renaissance period aristocratic families who ruled courts acquired goods to reflect their magnificence and power, as well as to demonstrate taste and knowledge. And Chinese porcelain was one of the sought after objects. ⠀ ⠀ Blue and white Chinese porcelain did not come directly to Italy from China, but through Persia, and was then gifted to Europeans by the Mamluks and Ottomans. This was a form of advertisement, promoting a costly new product that had begun arriving in their territory in sufficient amounts to export. It was valued not only because it was rare in Europe but also because its material properties were assumed to be magical. ⠀ ✨⠀ ⠀ Tell us about the objects in your home… Send us a photo, video or drawing. We’ll then tell you the history of these seemingly everyday objects, the worlds they travelled through, how artists were inspired by them, and how collectors sought them out. ⠀ ⠀ Post and tag your image using #mytravellingobject & @openartsobjects ⠀ ⠀ Or email us… ⠀ ⠀ For more information on this project, FOLLOW THE LINK IN BIO 👆🏻⠀
 ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ #chineseporcelain #chinesepottery #pottery #ceramics #renaissance⠀ #travellingobjects  #OUArtHistory #historyofart #artstagram #arteducation #art
Today's #materialmondays comes from @artarchaeolog Today's #materialmondays comes from @artarchaeologynow: Rock engravings of giraffe and other animals at Twyfelfontein Valley, Namibia, Southern Africa, made by the ancestors of today’s indigenous ‘San' or ‘Bushmen’ people, and recognised by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site. The art reflects ritual practices such as the control of game animals by shamans. The San have been neglected in the history of Southern Africa, and the rock art is now an important source of community identity and resilience. ⁠⠀ #rockart #twyfelfontein #namibia #southernafrica #san #bushmen #unesco #blackhistorymonth #blm ⁠⠀ #arthistory #ouarthistory #artists #historyofart #OUrArtHistory #artstagram #artoftheday #arteducation #art #whyarthistorymatters #artmatters #arteducationmatters #artofafrica⁠⠀
‘My mother bought this 1920’s ‘Leaf and Berr ‘My mother bought this 1920’s ‘Leaf and Berries’ Moorcroft vase in a church fête sometime in the 1980s, and gave it to me in the 1990s. I have always loved the colours and the shape - it is very tactile.’ - Sharil Bull ⠀ ⠀ We love the painting of this vase, sitting alongside its inspiration.⠀ ⠀ • • • ⠀ William Moorcroft (1872-1945), was an art school graduate and the son of a Burslem china painter, who started out in ornamental ware. In 1912 he opened his own art pottery, backed by the famous London store Liberty & Co. where many of his products were sold.⠀ ⠀ In 1935 Moorcroft’s son Walter (1917-2002) joined the firm and introduced many of his own styles and designs into the catalogue after he took the reins of the company in 1945. His success allowed him to buy out Liberty’s ownership in the early 1960s. ⠀ ⠀ The costs of the craftsmanship began to weigh on the company, and in the 1980s part of the Moorcroft business was sold with the aim of mass-producing a selection of Moorcroft designs. Though Walter remained the design director until 1987, the company experienced several changes in ownership over the subsequent years,  The final iteration, the Moorcroft Design Studio, launched in 1998.⠀ • • • ⠀ ⠀ Tell us about the objects in your home… Send us a photo, video or drawing. We’ll then tell you the history of these seemingly everyday objects, the worlds they travelled through, how artists were inspired by them, and how collectors sought them out. ⠀ ⠀ Post and tag your image using #mytravellingobject & @openartsobjects ⠀ ⠀ Or email us… ⠀ ⠀ For more information on this project, how to submit your images, and how to get involved, FOLLOW THE LINK IN BIO 👆🏻⠀
 ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ #moorcroftpottery #moorcroftvase #pottery ⠀ #travellingobjects  #OUArtHistory #historyofart #artstagram #artoftheday #arteducation #whyarthistorymatters #artmatters #arteducationmatters  #artoninstagram  #visualculture  #teacher #history #arthistoryonline #storiesofart #onlinelearning #arthistorynerd #historyofobjects #getinvolved #arthistoryiscool #arthistoryclass #arthistorycourse ⠀ #travels #home #decorativearts #homedecor
This week's #MaterialMondays is 'Sacha Jason Guyan This week's #MaterialMondays is 'Sacha Jason Guyana Dreams' (1989), by the Caribbean-born, British artist #FrankBowling (b. 1934). Born in Guyana, Frank came to Britain in 1950 and later studied at the Royal College of Art. In 2005, Frank became the first Black artist to be elected to the Royal Academy of Arts. You can learn more about Frank's work, and that of his compatriot Aubrey Williams, on our MA in Art History at the @theopenuniversity #blackhistorymonth #arthistory #ouarthistory #artists #historyofart #OUrArtHistory #artstagram #artoftheday #arteducation #art #whyarthistorymatters #artmatters #arteducationmatters 📷: © Frank Bowling https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/bowling-sacha-jason-guyana-dreams-t12134#3
Today is #Caravaggio's birthday, so today's #Mater Today is #Caravaggio's birthday, so today's #MaterialMondays is his Supper at Emmaus now in the @nationalgallery and the subject of one of our #openartsobjects films. Click on link in bio to watch the 🎥 film! #otd #onthisday #arthistory #ouarthistory #artists #historyofart #OUrArtHistory #artstagram #artoftheday #arteducation #art #whyarthistorymatters #artmatters #arteducationmatters
Do you love art history? Do you notice the objects Do you love art history? Do you notice the objects depicted in a painting? They may represent more than you realise. ⠀ ⠀ From tiles to jars, rugs to incense burners. For centuries we have decorated our homes with objects from around the globe. And artists too have long been inspired to paint, draw or mimic these imported items. ⠀ ⠀ Tell us about the objects in your home… Send us a photo, video or drawing. We’ll then tell you the history of these seemingly everyday objects, the worlds they travelled through, how artists were inspired by them, and how collectors sought them out. ⠀ ⠀ Post and tag your image using #mytravellingobject & @openartsobjects ⠀ ⠀ Or email us… ⠀ ⠀ For more information on this project, how to submit your images, and how to get involved, FOLLOW THE LINK IN BIO 👆🏻⠀
 ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ #travellingobjects  #OUArtHistory #artists #historyofart #artstagram #artoftheday #arteducation #art #whyarthistorymatters #artmatters #arteducationmatters  #artoninstagram  #visualculture  #teacher #history #arthistoryonline #storiesofart #onlinelearning #historyofobjects #getinvolved #arthistoryiscool #arthistoryclass #arthistorycourse ⠀ ⠀ #interiors #travels #home #domesticinterior #decorativearts #homedecor
This week marks #rothko's birthday (Sep 25), so to This week marks #rothko's birthday (Sep 25), so today's #materialmondays is Red on Maroon housed at the Tate, from 1959. "We favor the simple expression of the complex thought. We are for the large shape because it has the impact of the unequivocal. We wish to reassert the picture plane. We are for flat forms because they destroy illusion and reveal truth." #arthistory #ouarthistory #artists #historyofart #OUrArtHistory #artstagram #artoftheday #arteducation #art #whyarthistorymatters #artmatters #arteducationmatters
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