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This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date. There are just two weeks to go before the summer parliamentary recess begins on 18 July and MPs head back to their constituencies – or take off for the sun-drenched coastlines of mainland Europe, the Americas […]
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This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date. On Wednesday 21st August 2013 OCA tutors Olivia Irvine and Jane Mitchell will be leading a study visit to the Scottish National Portrait Gallery in Edinburgh, to see the first major retrospective of Man Ray’s influential photographic […]
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This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date. I just wanted to do a wee blogette about these lovely paintings submitted as part of a level one assignment by Sanae Dvorjetz. What struck me about them was that although they are ostensibly unpretentious and […]
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This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date. A recent BBC article: Isn’t it time to democratise art? grabbed my attention. Tom Shakespeare proposes that we, the public, should be allowed to borrow works of art from our national collections in a recent article in the […]
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This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date. We are announcing today, the student fees for the academic year which starts 1 September 2013. We are pleased to say that, for new students, the cost of a full degree will be largely unchanged. So […]
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This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date. Sarah Taylor, Curriculum Leader for Textiles, reports back on a stimulating day in the archivesThe Constance Howard Gallery at Goldsmiths University of London provided the two tutors and fifteen students (including one from Illustration) with an […]
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This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date. Our interest in historical art is full of strangeness and conflicted meanings. I was speaking to a student today about the pre Raphaelites. I was trying to put myself in their shoes; a group of angry […]
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This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date. During the early seventies Frank Stella was said to have entered into his ‘second career’ producing two series of paintings known as the Exotic Birds and the Indian Birds. But can we call them paintings due […]
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This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date. I went to Tate Britain to see ‘King Cophetua and the Beggar Maid’ (1880-84), Edward Burne–Jones, having just read Fiona McCarthy’s excellent biography ‘The last Pre–Raphaelite’. It came as a surprise to find the painting in […]
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This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date. Depictions of erotic themes are identified from as far back as the palaeolithic period, with images of human genitalia apparent in cave paintings and stone carvings, some of which have been identified as being as much […]
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