ART FOR EVERYDAY LIFE TALK 2
Pre- and Post-War 20th-Century Artists Taking Art Outside the Gallery
This past event has now taken place
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 talk, 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 was the second talk in the Art for Everyday Life series led by Peter Vass.
Part of our Change Makers season of events.
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