Colour Revolution at the Ashmolean (sponsored)
<p>Nineteenth-century Britain is often imagined as gloomy and dark, epitomised by Dickensian grime and Queen Victoria’s prolonged state of black-clad mourning. But in reality this period saw an explosion of colour, following a number of scientific discoveries.</p><p>In this short discussion, Charlotte Ribeyrol, co-curator of <em>Colour Revolution</em>, a major new exhibition at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, talks about some of those technical advances and the dazzling objects visitors will find on display at the show, from jewel-like Pre-Raphaelite paintings to bookcases and socks, as well as some of the debates of the time – between Ruskin, Darwin and others – about the meaning of colour in nature and society.</p><p><em>Colour Revolution</em> runs at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford until 18th February 2024. Find out more here:</p><p><a href="https://www.ashmolean.org/exhibition/colour-revolution-victorian-art-fashion-design" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.ashmolean.org/exhibition/colour-revolution-victorian-art-fashion-design</a></p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
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Show Notes
Nineteenth-century Britain is often imagined as gloomy and dark, epitomised by Dickensian grime and Queen Victoria’s prolonged state of black-clad mourning. But in reality this period saw an explosion of colour, following a number of scientific discoveries.
In this short discussion, Charlotte Ribeyrol, co-curator of Colour Revolution, a major new exhibition at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, talks about some of those technical advances and the dazzling objects visitors will find on display at the show, from jewel-like Pre-Raphaelite paintings to bookcases and socks, as well as some of the debates of the time – between Ruskin, Darwin and others – about the meaning of colour in nature and society.
Colour Revolution runs at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford until 18th February 2024. Find out more here:
https://www.ashmolean.org/exhibition/colour-revolution-victorian-art-fashion-design
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