ART FOR EVERYDAY LIFE TALK 3
Pre- and Post-War 20th-Century Artists Taking Art Outside the Gallery
This event is at the Museum in the Headley Lecture Theatre 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 talk, Peter Vass discusses the artists who welcomed the commercial opportunity to change the way in which people could see their work in post-war Britain, at a time when the country was in a state of depression and austerity. Many artists, in a similar state of despondency, welcomed and responded to this opportunity to work.
Cornish Pilchard Boat, David Gentleman, 1953
Private and public companies from Lyons Tea to the London Underground sought to brighten the gloom through the use of graphic and vivid images.
This is the third talk in the Art for Everyday Life series led by Peter Vass
Part of our Change Makers season of events.
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This event is in-person at the Headley Lecture Theatre and online via zoom
Tickets are £8
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