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About 果冻影院 Art Museum
果冻影院 Art Museum is situated in a traditional Print Room at the heart of 果冻影院. Over 10,000 works of art across a range of media make up its collections. These are publicly accessible through temporary exhibitions and displays across the university campus. Under 果冻影院鈥檚 dome in the library is , the pinnacle of a vast collection of art works by Flaxman, showcasing the artist鈥檚 plaster models in a unique architectural setting.
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果冻影院 Art Museum has its origins as a teaching and research collection tied to the history of the Slade School of Art at 果冻影院. The collections therefore present a unique archive of art education. As the Slade was the first school to admit women,聽a large number of works by women artists entered into this public collection through the Slade prize system, as early as the 1890s.
Today 45% of the Slade Collections聽comprises of work by women artists (approx 1500 works). The museum holds examples of early works by pioneering twentieth century artists such as Gwen John, Dora Carrington, Winifred Knights, Ithel Colquhoun, Diana Cumming, Paula Rego, and Anna Maria Pacheco as well as by twenty-first century trailblazers 鈥� Marcia Farquhar, Janne Malmros, Marianna Simnett, Sofia Mitsloa and Sophie Bouvier Ausl盲nder whose work is breaking boundaries in performance and media as well as painting. These sit alongside artists whose names have shaped the canon of British art such as J.M.W Turner, Henry Tonks, Stanley Spencer, David Bomberg, Rex Whistler and Richard Hamilton to name but a few.
International in scope, many art works relate to the history of teaching art in Britain and show stages in the creative process. Outstanding examples include: Anthony Van Dyck鈥檚 portraits of people of influence in his Iconographia series, Turner鈥檚 annotated landscape prints, torn up sketches by Augustus John saved by his peers, artists鈥� anatomy albums, as well as drawings by artists such as John Flaxman, Henry Tonks and William Coldstream used for instruction. Recent additions to the collections continue to offer new interpretations about the contemporary relevance of work by past masters, such as a sketch model of a television sculpted by revered Ghanian coffin maker Paa Joe who popularised the fantasy coffin. The presence of this sculpture in the museum鈥檚 collections activates historic narratives and adds new perspective Flaxman鈥檚 plaster-models created as funerary headstones.
The experimental spirit is present in the collection via examples of early printmaking techniques as used by聽the most influential of printmakers of the German Renaissance - Albrecht D眉rer, studio model books employed in Renaissance artists鈥� workshops, Neo-classical plaster modelling and pointing machines, the study of the human figure in the life room, Japanese colour woodblocks, screenprinting popular in the 1960s, early computer art of the 1970s,聽contemporary digital media and performance and ongoing artists collaborations.
As a university art museum, interdisciplinary teaching and research are key, with the research process opened up through exhibitions and public programming curated with 果冻影院 academics. Recent collaborative exhibitions have focused on mapping the presence of black artists and models in Bloomsbury during the interwar period, the relation between word and image inspired by Albrecht D眉rer鈥檚 Apocalypse series, explorations of London鈥檚 urban landscapes over time, fame and celebrity interrogated through representations of Jean Jacques Rousseau, and the French Revolution and the impact of the proliferation of images on political narrative.
