Tuesday 27 December 2011

Oxford Trip


A = Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology
B = Modern Art Oxford Cafe and Bar
C = Pitt Rivers Museum 

At the Ashmolean, (http://www.ashmolean.org/) I was particularly interested in the Lower ground sculptures of the Human image.
Master ES 
Consolation through confidence (from the Ars Moriendi)

Cast of the Aphrodisias Fisherman 

Double sided mummy portrait 
c.AD 100

Cycladic figure

Raphael (Raffaello Santi 1483 - 1520)
Studies of the heads of two apostles and their hands

Modern Art Oxford, (http://www.modernartoxford.org.uk/) I liked the conceptual installations.
Kerry Tribe 
Dead Star Light (still)


Abraham Cruzvillegas 
Autoconstruccion: The Optimistic Failure of a Simultaneous Promise

Pitt Rivers Museum, (http://www.prm.ox.ac.uk/) I liked the tribal photography.
Portrait of a thirteen year old Hopi girl named Modisi
Schomovi, Arizona, US
Photography by John Hillers 1879

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