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Lecture | Hugh Belsey ‘Gainsborough in Melbourne’

November 7, 2020
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Thomas Gainsborough, An officer of the 4th Regiment of Foot  (c. 1776-1780), National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Felton Bequest, 1922

Gainsborough in Melbourne Hugh Belsey Thomas Gainsborough was the only eighteenth-century British artist to give equal weight to the painting of portraits and landscapes and both are represented in Melbourne. The NGV has the most comprehensive collection of the artist’s work in Australia. Recent research has questioned some of the traditional identities given to...
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Lecture and Floortalk | ‘The Neo-Impressionists’

November 7, 2020
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Maximilien LUCE French 1858–1941 The port of Saint-Tropez 1893 (Le Port de Saint-Tropez) oil on canvas 73.7 x 91.4 cm  Private collection

The Neo-Impressionists Lecture by Marina Ferreti Bocquillon and floortalk by Anthea Callen Lecture | Enjoy this exclusive opportunity to hear insights by the international guest curator of the exhibition Radiance: The Neo-Impressionists, Marina Ferretti Bocquillon Director scientifique, Musée des impressionisms, Giverny. This lecture is presented in association with Friends of the Gallery Library. Marina Ferretti...
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EVCS | Angela Hesson ‘Dangerous Ornament: The Feminine Form in Art Nouveau’

November 6, 2020
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Hesson_Dabault_Pendant_1901

Angela Hesson Dangerous Ornament: The Feminine Form in Art Nouveau The decorative arts of the fin-de-siècle were populated by a feminized pantheon of transient, metamorphic figures and forms delicately suspended in moments of transformation. From pin trays to paper knives to poster advertisements, Art Nouveau refashioned the most controversial subjects of Decadence and Aestheticism...
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NGV Australia celebrates 10 years at Federation Square

October 25, 2020
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David Rosetzky  Self-defence (Sarah), 2005 (detail) national Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Purchased, Victorian Foundation for Living Australian Artists, 2005  © David Rosetzky

Free Public Programs all weekend at NGV Australian  25 – 28 October To commemorate Federation Square’s 10th birthday the NGV is inviting everyone celebrate 10 years of artistic creativity at NGV Australia with talks by Australian artists and NGV curators. Enjoy documentaries, guided tours of the NGV Collection and NGV Kids Artcart activities. For full...
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Lecture | The passions of the soul – Emotion in the paintings of Nicholas Poussin , Lisa Beaven

October 24, 2020
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Poussin, Massacre of the Innocents

The passions of the soul – Emotion in the paintings of Nicholas Poussin Lisa Beaven The restoration of the NGV’s Crossing of the Red Sea provides us with a timely opportunity to re-evaluate its creator, Nicolas Poussin. He is one of the most studied, but also one of the most misunderstood, of seventeenth-century artists....
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Performance and Conversation | Kaldor Public Art Projects

October 23, 2020
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Allora & Calzadilla, Stop, Repair, Prepare: variations on 'Ode to joy', 2008, The Museum of Modern Art, Gift of the Julia Stoschek Foundation, Düsseldorf, photo: Yi-Chun WU/Museum of Modern Art

Kaldor Public Art Projects at the State Library of Victoria Kaldor Public Art Projects will present its 26th art project, featuring the work of internationally renowned artist duo Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla, in the Cowen Gallery at the State Library of Victoria from the 16th November until the 6th December 2012. The artists...
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Richard Haese | Rediscovering the Australian Landscape 1940 – 1980: Nolan, Drysdale and Williams

October 17, 2020
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Russell Drysdale, Tree Form, 1945. National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne The Joseph Brown Collection. Presented through the NGV Foundation by Dr Joseph Brown AO OBE, Honorary Life Benefactor, 2004

Rediscovering the Australian Landscape 1940 – 1980: Nolan, Drysdale and Williams Dr Richard Haese - Honorary Associate, Faculty of Humanities, La Trobe University Beginning in the 1940s Sidney Nolan and Russell Drysdale began the rediscovery of the Australian landscape from a modernist perspective, beginning a journey that would take them to the very centre...
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Seminar | Prof Ann Shteir ‘Figuring and Refiguring Flora, Goddess of Flowers in Early Modern Culture

October 11, 2020
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Detail of Flore from Botticelli's 'Primavera', c1482, via wikimedia commons

Figuring and Refiguring Flora, Goddess of Flowers, in Early Modern Culture Professor Ann Shteir, York University In Roman mythology and popular culture, the goddess Flora rules over the flowering of plants, and as such is to be appeased, lest buds not set and grain not grow. A figure of reproductive power, nurturant and material,...
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Lecture | The science of conserving Gija art: How Indigenous and Western knowledge systems come together

October 10, 2020
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Left: Ngalangangpum School, Nancy Nodea. © Copyright in this artwork and text remains with the Artist and Warmun Art Centre respectively. Right: Distribution of iron in pigment sample as determined with PIXE. Courtesy of Petronella Nel.

 The science of conserving Gija art: How Indigenous and Western knowledge systems come together   The Melbourne Materials Institute (MMI) and the Centre for Cultural Materials Conservation (CCMC) are pleased to invite you to “The science of conserving Gija art: How Indigenous and Western knowledge systems come together”. In March 2011, floods destroyed the...
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Reminder | Preserving Outdoor Sculpture and Monuments

October 10, 2020
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Preserving Outdoor Sculpture and Monuments Places still available in this workshop Presented by the AICCM Objects Special Interest Group with the generous support of the Gordon Darling Foundation Melbourne, 8-9 November 2012 The objective of the workshop is to learn preservation strategies for outdoor sculpture and monuments. Participation is open to individuals responsible for...
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