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Study Visit: Matisse

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Join OCA tutor Mark Clough at Tate Liverpool on the 6 February for a packed day.

We will first visit the exhibition Matisse in Focus which includes one of the artist’s most iconic works; The Snail. It is one of Matisse’s largest and most significant paper cut-out works. Made by cutting and tearing shapes from paper hand painted by his assistants in a range of bright colours, Matisse began experimenting with this cut-out method in the late 1930s, adopting it wholeheartedly by the late 1940s when ill health prevented him from painting.

Shown alongside The Snail will be additional Matisse works from Tate’s collection that span the genres of portraiture, landscape and still life, encompassing sculpture, painting and works on paper. Displaying works from 1899 onwards, Matisse in Focus will represent over 50 years of this giant of modern art’s fascinating and impressive career.

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We will then look at the DLA Piper Series: Constellations. This exhibition shows the very best of the Tate collection (the national collection of modern and contemporary art) presenting artworks in ‘constellations’ or clusters, encouraging visitors to discover similarities between works of art that at first glance, may seem very different.

After lunch we will look at An Imagined Museum. The exhibition invites audiences into a fictional scenario in which the exhibited artworks will cease to exist and asks visitors to memorise the works to secure their future preservation. An Imagined Museum draws on Ray Bradbury’s 1953 sci-fi novel Fahrenheit 451, a tale of a distant future in which works of literature are banned and the only way to save them is to learn them by heart.

To reserve your place email enquiries@oca.ac.uk


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