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Jan Cox
Dr Jan Cox has been awarded a BA (Hons) by Oxford Brookes University, an MA from Bristol, and a PhD from the University of Leeds (Nordic Art). He specialises in nineteenth-century European art and British art of the early twentieth-century.
Courses
Jean-François Millet will feature in a major exhibition at the National Gallery. Discover the artist who put representations of the poorest of rural workers on the walls of the elite Paris Salon, among them his famous 'The Gleaners' and 'The Sower.'
Learn how Manet, Gauguin, Cézanne & Van Gogh horrified public opinion at the 1910 exhibition 'Manet and the Post-Impressionists'. An important moment in the history of British art, it brought London face-to-face with new developments in French painting.
Gustave Courbet was one of the most radical artists of the nineteenth century. Learn about his exemplary works, such as the large 'Burial at Ornans,' painted after the 1848 revolution, and the portraits and controversial nudes he exhibited at the Salon.
Join us to discover the 'Sense of Place' in Modern British Art. How did British artists, including Ben and Winifred Nicholson, Paul Nash, Eileen Agar, Barbara Hepworth and Henry Moore, approach and respond to the environment in the period 1910-1960?
Explore art in Paris in the 1920s – a vibrant Jazz Age that featured both modernity and nostalgia, innovation and tradition. Discussions will include Picasso, Matisse, Surrealism, Art Deco, Josephine Baker, the School of Paris, and Man Ray.
Camille Pissarro, Gustave Caillebotte and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec were all outsiders in 19th century France. Each left us with a unique body of exceptional Impressionist artworks, some of which are held in Oxford’s own Ashmolean Museum.
The first Impressionist exhibition was in 1874. We look at fifty years of art that led to the birth of Impressionism: Ingres and Delacroix, the impact of the Barbizon School, Courbet, Daubigny and others, concluding with the Impressionists themselves.