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Shall We Grab a Drink? Challenging representations of drinking and drinkers

Category
Exhibition
Interpretations
MA students
Date
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Stylised painting of three men standing and drinking from pitchers, with a crouched, paler figure who could be a child also gulping from a glass at the bottom right hand, almost under the table. The picture uses tones of greens and blues and in the background we see what looks to be a town with the chimneys of what could be factories.
Date
18 December 2023 - 11 March 2024
Location
Online exhibition
Category

From Ancient China and Greece to a night out with the lads; from Christian eucharist to a Cosmopolitan cocktail; this exhibition will explore how artists from all around the globe represent drinking and drinkers.

Enter this exhibition and get intoxicated by the artworks.

We cannot guarantee that you won’t be hungover by the time you leave.

This exhibition uses pictures from the Art Institute of Chicago’s open access collection.

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Shall We Grab a Drink? is part of a wider series of online exhibitions curated by Art Gallery and Museum Studies and Arts Management and Heritage MA students from the School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies, as part of an Interpretations course module.

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Image

Vincent van Gogh, The Drinkers, Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, 1890 (detail). Oil on canvas, 59.4 × 73.4 cm (23 3/8 × 28 7/8 in. Credit: Joseph Winterbotham Collection. Reference Number: 1953.178. Art Institute of Chicago. CC0 Public Domain Designation.