Open Resources

Open Arts Object: Critical Term - Modernism III: Modernism and contemporary art

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Warren Carter and Paul Wood discuss the complex relationship between modernism and contemporary art.

Open Arts Object: Critical Term - Classicism

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Emma Barker and Kathleen Christian discuss the term Classicism. 

Open Arts Objects: Bichitr and Ramdas, Shah-Jahan receives his three eldest sons and Asaf Khan during his accession ceremonies, 1630-40, from the Padshahnama Royal Library, Windsor Castle

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Emily Hannam brings the Mughal court to life in her discussion of paintings from the Padshahnama (‘Book of Emperors’) housed in the Royal Library at Windsor Castle.

Open Arts Object: Bridget Riley, Kashan, 1984, National Museum Wales, Cardiff

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Bryony White (Senior Curator of Modern & Contemporary Art) discussing Bridget Riley, Kashan, 1984, National Museum Wales, Cardiff.

Open Arts Object: Pyxis, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

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Francesca Leoni (Curator of Islamic Art) discussing a Spanish cylindrical ivory casket (pyxis) lid with huntsmen and animals, 389 in the Islamic calendar, or 998-999, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.

Open Arts Object: Jan van Kessel, Decorative Still-Life Composition with a Porcelain Bowl, Fruit and Insects, 17th century, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

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An Van Camp (Curator of Northern European Art) discussing Jan van Kessel, Decorative Still-Life Composition with a Porcelain Bowl, Fruit and Insects, 17th century, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.

Open Arts Object: Michelangelo’s Pietà, 1498-99, St. Peter’s, Rome

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Kathleen Christian discussing Michelangelo’s Pietà, 1498-99, St. Peter’s, Rome.

John Constable, Willie Lott’s House from the Stour, 1816-18, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

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Colin Harrison, Senior Curator of Western Art at the Ashmolean discusses Constable’s painting of Willie Lott’s House and the changes to the English landscape during an age of Industrialisation. 

Utagawa Hiroshige I, Evening shower at Ōhashi Bridge, Atake (Ōhashi Atake no yudachi), nineteenth century, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

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Clare Pollard, Curator of Japanese Art at the Ashmolean discusses a print by Hiroshige, revealing how the artist’s use of colour and composition provides a striking depiction of figures being caught in a rainstorm. 

Watanabe Nangaku, Bijin, or beautiful woman with a skull, early nineteenth century, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

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Clare Pollard, Curator of Japanese Art at the Ashmolean brings to life a Japanese scroll, and what it reveals about the lives of courtesans in nineteenth-century Japan.