Art for Everyday Life Talk 2 – Educating Britain

Name: Art for Everyday Life Talk 2 – Educating Britain
Start: 2024-12-04T14:00:00+00:00
End: 2024-12-04T15:00:00+00:00
Location: Beaumont St, OX1 2PH Oxford, United Kingdom

Schedule

Wed Dec 04 2024 at 02:00 pm to 03:00 pm

UTC+00:00

Location

Beaumont St, OX1 2PH Oxford, United Kingdom | Oxford, EN

Wed 4 Dec, 2–3pm
This event will take place at the Museum and online via Zoom
With Peter Vass, Fellow of Oxford Brookes University
Some of the best 20th-century British pictorial art was not found in museums and galleries, but on tanker lorries and in underground stations.
In a series of three talks, Peter Vass shows how artists like Piper, Ravilious, Sutherland and the Nash brothers became involved in commercial and government-funded projects to record landscape and life in Britain, bringing art out of the galleries and onto the High Street as part of everyday life.
In this second talk in our series, Peter Vass discusses the artists who took part in such educational initiatives and how they produced works for the Schools Prints lithographs.
School Prints, published in the 1940s, was a scheme by which artists were commissioned to create original lithographs which could be editioned in very large numbers and sold cheaply to subscribing schools to enable children to enjoy real works of art.
This is the second talk in the Art for Everyday Life series led by Peter Vass.
BOOKING
This event takes place in-person at the Museum, and online via Zoom.
Tickets are £8.
https://www.ashmolean.org/event/art-for-everyday-life-talk-2-educating-britain