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           <title>New exhibitions at Christ Church Picture Gallery</title>
           
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  Prophecies, Histories, Legends and Law in drawings by Old Masters & Two Landscapes Revisited Until June 9 and Until May 27 respectively
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           <title>Bellini, Botticelli, Titian... 500 Years of Italian art: Compton Verney</title>
           
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  Bellini, Botticelli, Titian… 500 years of Italian Art runs the title of Compton Verney’s first exhibition this year. “All you ever wanted to know about Italian art and were afraid to ask,” quips Steven Parissien, the Warwickshire gallery’s director — and he’s not far off the mark for this is a well thought-out exhibition of more than 40 paintings from the Glasgow Museums’ collection of Italian paintings that guides the visitor through the changes in Italian art from roughly 1400 to 1900, offering just enough detail to interest, entertain and inform.
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           <title>Aperture, by Jack Eden: Turrill Sculpture Garden, Summertown</title>
           
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  Entering leafy Turrill Sculpture Garden, one is struck by the stark nature of this exhibition – a series of bright white blocks planted in the earth and each perforated with a gaping hole.
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           <title>Hans Josephsohn and Simon Starling, Modern Art Oxford</title>
           
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  Hans Josephsohn and Simon Starling, Modern Art Oxford
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           <title>Chasing Beauty, Patricia O'Brien, Art Jericho</title>
           
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  FOUR STARS
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           <title>Xu Bing: Ashmolean Museum</title>
           
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  Visit The Ashmolean and see the museum’s first major exhibition of contemporary art. Contemporary too is the smartphone technology available to enhance your experience of this outstanding exhibition. Some readers may be surprised that a Chinese artist, Xu Bing, has been chosen for this landmark event. Director Christopher Brown says that “The Ashmolean has possibly the best collection of post-war Chinese art outside of mainland China” acquired with the help of the Sullivan Fund.
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           <title>Agim Sulaj: The North Wall</title>
           
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  With the ability to penetrate imaginations, renowned Albanian artist Agim Sulaj employs a visual narrative that transcends language. He has spent more than 20 years acquiring endless prizes and awards across the length and breadth of the globe from the traditional yearly competition of satire and humor organised by Albanian magazine Hosteni — Satire and Humor, to a prize awarded at the first European Union International Biennale held at the European Cartoon Centre in Belgium.
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           <title>Manet the master of portrait painting</title>
           
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  If you missed seeing Éduoard Manet’s portrait of Fanny Claus at the Ashmolean Museum during the public appeal that saved it from export last year, you can see it now at the Royal Academy.
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           <title>Bury Knowle Art Group: Wolfson College</title>
           
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  FOUR STARS The Bury Knowle Art Group was founded in 1948, and each year it holds a winter exhibition. In 2013 this is at Wolfson College where the panoramic views across the River Cherwell and the water meadows provide a splendid context for the work on show.
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  Peter Blake’s forename is strikingly well-suited to him; he is the Peter Pan of British art, the boy who never grew up. And what a good thing it is for us that he didn’t. Blake’s works fizz with a shy, childlike adoration of the things people actually like looking at — Mickey Mouse, Marilyn Monroe, California, Venice — all observed by Blake with a sympathetic yet scientific gaze. In his current exhibition Peter Blake: A Celebration at Henley-on-Thames’s Bohun Gallery, a celebration of the gallery’s 40th birthday, a selection of the artist’s silkscreen prints spanning the period from 1991 to the present is on display. Surely one of the greatest living printmakers, the works carry with them the rhythm of an unorthodox, idiosyncratic logic that makes all of Blake’s creations so beguiling.
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           <title>Constable, Gainsborough, Turner and the Making of Landscape: The Royal Academy</title>
           
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  Landscape painting is so popular a subject for art these days we forget it was not always so. History painting used to be number one in the hierarchy of art, painted in the grand manner awash with rhetoric and high ideals. Portraiture came next, making good money for the artist in the 18th century, the greatest age for the genre in Britain. Then came landscape, of much lower status, at least until the later 18th century.
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           <title>Romantics reveal their true glories</title>
           
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  Romance is in the air: romance with a capital R, with religion, poetry, and medievalism thrown in. Tate Britain’s enormous show, which ends very soon, on January 13, has 180 works on view from the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, the group of young artists who rebelled against the art establishment in Victorian London. Over-familiarity is one of the group’s bugbears nowadays; being held as painters of pretty pictures another. This is why seeing their works in a new context is good — and not just paintings, but sculpture, photography and applied arts as well — and even if, for some, the show’s premise that it shows the Pre-Raphaelites as proto-modernists may be hard to take. Tate shows the group, formed in 1848, as radical, as Britain’s first modern art movement, in an era of political and social discontent. For example, their painting en plein air more than a decade before the Impressionists, and works are juxtaposed to show the Pre-Raphaelite’s influence on the developing Arts and Crafts movement.
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           <title>Threads of Silk and Gold: The Ashmolean Museum</title>
           
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  As we walked towards the large screen showing a dramatic night-time scene of cormorant fishing, I thought we were looking at an oil painting. “I also did when I first saw it,” Hiroko said. “I was stunned when I read the label and saw that it was needlework.”
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           <title>Picasso &amp; Tribal Art: The Meller-Merceux Gallery, High Street, Oxford</title>
           
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  There is a magic to Africa. It takes hold. And a magic to Pablo Picasso’s work that also takes hold, an otherness that even over a century on from when he was first painting has extraordinary power to enthral. Put the two together as in Oxford’s Meller Merceux gallery’s new exhibition, Picasso &amp; Tribal Art, which combines striking West African sculptures with 40 works by Picasso, as well as Parisian contemporaries, and we have in our city a rare, if not unique opportunity. In 1907, when Picasso was 26 and living in Paris, already noticed by connoisseurs for his ‘blue’ and ‘rose’ period paintings. Yet, seeking something other, he visited the city’s ethnographic museum. His interest in what was then called ‘primitive’ art had been sparked by an African mask shown him by Matisse. He was deeply moved by the objects he saw at the Trocadéro: ‘magical’ things, unlike any other pieces of sculpture he knew, they had a profound and permanent effect on the young Spaniard’s perception of art. He began to incorporate African influences into his work, not copying, but allowing the abstract expressive forms and faces of African art to help him express his own vision. He was working on Les Demoiselles d’Avignon at the time (1907) but now based the faces of the two women on the right on African masks. This pivotal work is considered the first Cubist painting. The earliest work here is an original etching from 1918 showing Picasso’s first wife, the Russian ballet dancer Olga Khokhlova in classical dress (it is signed, April 1968). A rare lithograph on show, from the early 1920s, was commissioned by Picasso’s long-term dealer and friend, Daniel Henry Kahnweiler, one of the first champions of Picasso, Braques, and Cubism. Another shows Françoise Gilot, Picasso’s young lover and artistic muse from 1944 to 1953, portrayed as if being created in the studio by Picasso while daughter Paloma looks on. The profile Picasso draws of himself as a bearded sage displays astonishing economy of line. A rare signed etching comes from the renowned Vollard Suite. The Suite, comprising 100 etchings by Picasso between 1930 and 1937, is considered the artist’s most important cycle of etchings. Themes vary here, as with many in the series, inspired by a visit to Pompeii and Herculaneum, he offers a bearded toga-clad man (Picasso?) on a couch with a young woman (Marie-Thérèse) curled beside him. It is finely etched, proof of his brilliance as a printmaker. I love the simple outlines of vase and flowers on the window ledge and the classical sculpture head watching on. Hand-carved wooden ceremonial figures and masks on sale include a Yoruba staff, Kota Fang figurines from Gabon, and a seated Dogon figure with angular upturned face covered by the figure’s hands. Gallery director Aidan Meller says: “With demand for ceremonial sculpture at an all-time high, we are delighted audiences can experience authentic African tribal works alongside those of Picasso and his Parisian peers Henri Matisse and Alberto Giacometti.”
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           <title>Preview of All Together Differrent at Pettits House, Great Milton</title>
           
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  All Together Different is a great title for a collaborative exhibition, in a unique location, making a contribution to a rather special charity, Calibre (Talking books for the blind). The artist, Caroline Meynell, came up with the concept of inviting nine Oxfordshire-based artists, working in different media, to show their contemporary art against the background of a Tudor house. The Tudor house is, in fact, her home and so turning it into a gallery for four days, involves quite a lot of furniture moving!
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