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Eric North Room: 29th Augist to 25th September 1997
Paintings by Pan Tianshou (1897-1971). Following the major exhibition of Pan Tianshou's paintings at the National Gallery, Beijing, earlier this year, the Ashmolean Museum is pleased to further celebrate the centenary of the artist's birth with a display of his calligraphy,landscapes and bird paintings. Pian Tianshou was born in Ninghai, Zhejiang province, east China. Educated in Hangzhou, in 1923 he moved to Shanghai where he studied and taught painting, calligraphy and seal carving. He was particularly influenced by the leading Shanghai School artist Wu Changshi (1844-1927), with whom he shared a great interest in ancient calligraphy. In 1928 he was appointed to teach Chinese painting at the newly-established National Academy of Art in Hangzhou, of which he later became principal, and much of his surviving work is now displayed in the Academy's Pan Tianshou Foundation. Bird amongst plants. Calligraphy on reverse dated 1962. Ink and colour on paper, L. 54cm. Ashmolean Museum, Reyes Collection. McAlpine Gallery: 22nd July to 28th SeptemberTextiles and the Indian Ocean Trade. A selection from the Department of Eastern Art's outstanding Newberry collection of medieval Indian block-printed textiles traded to Egypt. The collection contains more than 1200 textiles, mostly block-printed and dyed in rich shades of blue and red. Fabrics of this kind were produced for the export trade to all parts of the Indian Ocean. The textile trade was part of a network that encompassed an entire world system. Merchants from various ethnic and religious backgrounds were involved. When Europeans became actively involved in the Indian Ocean trade in the early 16th century, they found a highly developed commercial network already in existence.The exhibition will coincide with publication by Oxford University Press, by Dr Ruth Barnes' Catalogue of the Newberry Collection - Indian Block-Printed Textiles in Egypt. None yet |
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Western ArtMcAlpine Gallery: 10 December - 31 March 1997Drawings by the Carracci from British Collections. A selection of 100 drawings by the highly influential Bolognese artists Lodovico (1555-1619) Agostino (1557-1602) and Annibale Carracci (1560-1609) was presented in this major loan exhibition, generously sponsored by Hazlett, Gooden and Fox. The exhibition looked at the cross-fertilization of ideas between the three artists, at the central importance of life drawing to their art, at the amazing inventiveness of Annibale in particular, and at the creative graphic explorations of all three Carracci in drawings and prints.(Exhibition catalogue available); the exhibition will continue at Hazlett, Gooden and Fox's gallery, 38 Bury Street, St James's, London SW1 from 9th April to 9 May 1997. McAlpine Gallery: 8th April to 11th MayPastels. Pastels, made from dry pigment and a binding agent, have been used by artists since the sixteenth century for both rapid sketches and finished works of art. This selection from the permanent collection in the Ashmolean's Print Room included examples by major and minor British and continental artists, ranging from studies by Frederico Barocci to landscapes and figure drawings by French and Russian Impressionists, including Degas, Camille Pissarro and Leonid Pasternak.McAlpine Gallery: 20th May to 13th JulyAcquisitions 1985-1997. A personal selection by the retiring Director of the Ashmolean Museum, from the acquisitions made by the Museum during his period of Directorship. These will include Ruben's portrait drawing of the Earl of Arundel; the Bellini Virgin and Child; a 10th century carved ivory lid from Cordova; a maiolica dish by Nicola da Urilo; an ancient Egyptian statuette of the god Ptah and a 4th century Porphyry head of a Roman Emperor.Eldon Room: 8th April to 6th JulyLife Drawing. While European artists have represented the nude in sculpture and painting for centuries, the systematic study of the human body has been a particular concern since the early 16th century. Gradually, life drawing became a central part of an artist's education, notably in academies of art from the 17th to late 19th centuries. The drawings in this exhibition fall mainly into two categories: studies of the posed model made as an academic exercise, and studies of the nude made in preparation for figures in painting and sculpture.This selection from the permanent collection in the Ashmolean Museum ranges from the 16th to 20th centuries, and will include drawings by Michelangelo and Raphael, Rembrandt and Rubens, Pissarro and Cézanne.
Eldon Gallery: 8th July to 28th SeptemberEarly Netherlandish Engraving c.1430-1540. Through the many rare or unique prints of early Netherlandish engravings (which have been part of the Ashmolean's collection since 1863), this exhibition traces the development of engraving from the work of the earliest Netherlandish masters in the 1430s to its first real flowering in the engravings of Lucas van Leyden in the early 16th century, whose work secured the importance of the technique in the Netherlands for the next two centuries.As well as illustrating technical and artistic progress throughout the 15th century, the exhibition examines the different uses of engraving in 15th and early 16th century society and the role played by engraved prints in the context of the visual culture of the Netherlands as a whole. Heberden Coin RoomCoins in Shakespeare. This exhibition displays a selection of portrait medals, the earliest of which, dated c.1728, is attributed to the Swiss medallist Jean Dossier, and a range of English and European coins mentioned in the plays, together with relevant quotations. These include an Elizabeth gold Angel -They have in EnglandA Venetian Ducat, referred to in Romeo and Juliet and two silver Denarii of Julius Caesar and Brutus, the latter celebrating Caesar's assassination. The Nobel Prize. A new exhibition on the Nobel Prize, includes gold medals awarded to Howard Florey, in 1945 (for Medicine) for his work on Penicillin and to Dorothy Hodgkin in 1964 (for Chemistry) for her work on the structure of Vitamin B12. |
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The exhibition in Oxford includes
paintings both from the Ashmolean Museum's permanent collection and
paintings on loan from private collections, as well as a small number
of works by Pan Tianshou's contemporaries.
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