Tag: 19th century art

Napoleon Colloquium at NGV International

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Napoleon Colloquium Saturday 22nd September An afternoon forum exploring the art, artists and their world in the time of Napoleon with three lectures on portraiture, Jacques-Louis David – painter of the French Revolution and decorative arts at the Napoleonic court. Speakers:  Dr Frank Heckes, Honorary Research Associate, La Trobe University | Jacques-Louis David: Painter of the French Revolution and of Napoleon Dr Vivien Gaston, Honorary Research Fellow, The University of Melbourne | Portraits of perfection: Ideal and reality in the Napoleonic era Dr Matthew Martin, Assistant Curator Decorative Arts and Antiquities, NGV | The bare necessities: Luxury travel accessories as courtly portraits in the Napoleonic Age Dr Elizabeth Cross, Senior Researcher, NGV and Jean-Pierre Chabrol, Head of Multimedia | Napoleon’s Letter’s to Josephine: Portrait of a marriage   Date: 1-5pm, Saturday 22nd September Cost $45 Adult / $40 NGV Member / $42 Concession (includes afternoon…

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Seminar | Barbara Larson: Darwinism and the Creator’s Divine Breath: The Evolutionary Landscape of the Spiritual in Symbolism

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Melbourne University Art History Seminar Darwinism and the Creator’s Divine Breath: The Evolutionary Landscape of the Spiritual in Symbolism Professor Barbara Larson, University of West Florida & MacGeorge Fellow, University of Melbourne Darwinism, with its reliance on competition and random selection in nature, has been tied to materialism and atheism and was a major point of reference in certain scientific circles that excluded religious explanations behind the existence of living beings and the earth that supported them. However, the widespread acknowledgement of deep time and rejection of the limited historical scale of biblical creation even by the devout opened the stage to other ways of understanding the intentions of the Creator or how one might reconceptualize spiritual life. Darwinism, paradoxically, mobilized religious thought; evolutionism worked its way into theosophy, reenergized pantheism, and was folded into syncretic writings by certain Catholic authors. Darwin…

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Symposium | Circumnavigating Napoleon, National Gallery of Victoria

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Circumnavigating Napoleon Symposium at NGV International, 21st July Leading international and local speakers will address key themes of the exhibition Napoleon: Revolution to Empire. Josephine and Malmaison – Dr Bernard Chevallier, leading Napoleon scholar Napoleon’s Propaganda, Artists and Horses – Jill, Duchess of Hamilton, author of Marengo, the Myth of Napoleon’s Horse Making Sense of Napoléon – Prof Peter McPhee, The University of Melbourne Napoleon’s Bad Behaviour – Assoc Prof Philip Dwyer, University of Newcastle Francois Péron and Terre Napoleon – Edward Duyker, Adjunct Professor, Australian Catholic University Napoleon’s Artists in Egypt and the Art of the Description – Dr Antoni Jach, author and painter Earthbound and airborne: the strange case of David and Napoleon – Prof Mark Ledbury, University of Sydney Cost: $85 A / $79 M / $82 C (includes morning & afternoon tea, exhibition entry not included). Date: Saturday 21st July, 10.30am–4.30pm. Venue: Clemenger BBDO…

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What are you looking at? | David R. Marshall, The Napoleon Exhibition at the NGV International

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The Napoleon Exhibition by David R. Marshall The Napoleon: Revolution to Empire exhibition is now on at the National Gallery of Victoria. Here I want to muse a little on a few works that caught my eye at the opening. That this exhibition is about Napoleon is hard to miss, with his name in giant illuminated letters near the entrance and a huge banner of David’s Napoleon Crossing the Alps on the side of the NGV. In this respect the exhibition represents a departure for the Melbourne Winter Masterpieces series which lately has taken its cue from the series of exhibition on period styles at the Victoria and Albert Museum, such as Art Deco (which originated at the V&A) and Vienna: Art and Design. According to what I have been told the idea for this exhibition began as Marie Antoinette.…

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Symposium | Napoleon: Revolution to Empire

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Napoleon: Revolution to Empire Leading international and local speakers will address key themes of the exhibition, including the surprising connections between France and Australia. Topics addressed will include the history of the Fondation Napoléon (the NGV’s partner and principal lender to this extraordinary exhibition) and its rich collections; Napoleon’s Coronation in 1804 and its music; France’s fascination with Australia in the period 1770–1820; and Napoleon’s 1812 Russian Campaign. Speakers Welcome Dr Gerard Vaughan, Director, NGV Victor-André Masséna, Prince d’Essling, Fondation Napoléon Duc de Rivoli, President, Fondation Napoléon Peter Hicks, Chargé d’affaires internationales, Fondation Napoléon Karine Huguenaud, exhibition co-curator, Fondation Napoléon François Houdecek, Responsable de projet, Fondation Napoléon Dr Ted Gott, Senior Curator, International Art, NGV Date: 10am- 1:30pm, Saturday June 2nd Venue: NGV International, 180 St Kilda Road, Clemenger BBDO Auditorium (enter north entrance, via Arts centre forecourt) Cost and Bookings: $85 Adult / $79…

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Call for Papers | The Eighth Lamp: Ruskin Studies Today 2012 – 2013

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The Eighth Lamp: Ruskin Studies Today 2012 – 2013 The Eighth Lamp: Ruskin Studies Today (ISSN 2049-3215) invites contributors to submit scholarly papers (8,000-10,000 or 3500-4000 words), ideas for book reviews, exhibition reviews, news and events, titles of publications and projects in progress, and creative work and abstracts related to John Ruskin and related nineteenth century scholarship. Scholarly papers should be submitted at least six to eight months in advance to allow for the refereeing and revisions process. The Eighth Lamp is an online and double blind refereed journal published by Rivendale Press, UK. It is led and managed by Dr Anuradha Chatterjee (Founding Editor and Co-Editor), Lecturer in History and Theory in Architecture and Design, University of Tasmania, and Dr Laurence Roussillon-Constanty (Co-Editor), Senior Lecturer in English, Paul Sabatier University, Toulouse, France. The journal is also complemented by a…

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Gallery Talk | In Conversation: Dr Isobel Crombie and Daniel Browning ‘Fred Kruger’

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In Conversation: Dr Isobel Crombie and Daniel Browning on ‘Fred Kruger’ To celebrate the launch of the publication Fred Kruger, join us as Dr Isobel Crombie, Snr Curator, Photography and Daniel Browning, Producer/Presenter, ABC Radio National, discuss the themes and ideas and processes of the artist Fred Kruger. Jasmin Chua, Publications Manager, National Gallery of Victoria will introduce the program and the publication will be available for purchase and signing during refreshments in the Members Lounge following the conversation at 5pm. The exhibition Fred Kruger: Intimate Landscapes is on level 3 of NGV Australia and viewing of the exhibition is encouraged prior to the program. Date: Sunday 25th March, 4pm Venue: The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia at Federation Square, Theatre, Level G Bookings: $30 Adult / $25 NGV Member (includes refreshments). Ph +61 3 8662 1555, 10am-5pm daily. Event Code P1270 NGV exhibition…

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Exhibition Review | ‘Portrait of a Lady: Sir John Longstaff’, Shepparton Art Museum by Caroline Jordan

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 Longstaff’s Ladies ‘Portrait of a Lady: Sir John Longstaff’, Shepparton Art Museum, 18 February—22 April 2012. Curated by Susan Gillberg. Reviewed by Caroline Jordan John Longstaff (1861–1941) was a tall poppy in the Australian art world of the early twentieth century. The boy from Clunes, an historic little mining town near Ballarat, won the inaugural National Gallery of Victoria Travelling Scholarship for his affecting narrative painting of a young wife reeling in shock on hearing of the death of her miner husband in Breaking the News (1887, Art Gallery of Western Australia) (Fig. 1). This early success set the tone for a stellar international career.  Longstaff was a successful exhibitor where it really mattered—in the Salons of London and Paris—and was five times Archibald Prize winner at home. Longstaff was knighted in 1928 and in 1936 he co-founded the Art Gallery…

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Seminar: Beatrix Ahrens – Rediscovered: Nineteenth Century German Painting in Victoria’s Public Collections

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Rediscovered: Nineteenth Century German Painting in Victoria’s Public Collections  Dr Beatrix Ahrens, University of Freiburg, Germany It seems like nowhere else outside Europe German paintings of the second half of the 19th century have been as popular as in Victoria. From the 1870s to the 1890s a surprisingly large number of German paintings were imported to Australia, yet many of these works of art have never been adequately researched. They often lie undiscovered in storage, some paintings are even threatened by decay. This lecture, for the first time, gives an overview of German 19th century paintings in Victorian public collections. The term ‘German paintings’ refers to paintings by German-speaking artists and also includes paintings by artists who migrated to Australia. The starting point of my lecture is the historical environment that influenced the collection of German paintings in Australia. Important aspects are the emigration of German artists from the middle of the 19th…

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Talk: British Watercolours in the National Gallery of Victoria

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Short Talks Afternoon: British Watercolours in the National Gallery of Victoria Hear about the NGV’s significant collection of British watercolours and how it was assembled, and the rise of the “exhibition” watercolour in the 19th century that sought to rival oil painting in size, brilliance of colour and effect. Speakers Cathy Leahy, Senior Curator, Prints & Drawings, NGV, Assoc Prof Alison Inglis, The University of Melbourne and Caroline Clemente, freelance art historian Date: Sun 6 Nov, 2– 4.30pm Cost: $25 Adult / $20 NGV Member / $22 Concession & Student (includes afternoon tea, bookings essential) Venue: Clemenger BBDO Auditorium, NGV International, St Kilda Rd. Bookings and Information: Ph +61 3 8662 1555, 10am-5pm daily. Event code P11247.

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CFP: Visual Culture and the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, London, Jul 12

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Call for Papers Visual Culture and the Revolutionary & Napoleonic Wars Tate Britain, Millbank, London SW1P 4RG, July 19 – 20, 2012 Deadline: Dec 16, 2011 Confirmed Plenary Speakers: Mary Favret, Gillian Russell, Susan Siegfried, Paul White In July 2012, in advance of commemoration of the bicentenary of the Battle of Waterloo, Tate Britain is to host a two-day conference exploring the impact of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars on world-wide visual culture, from the outbreak of the pan-European conflict with France in 1792 to the present day. Centred on themed panels, plenary lectures and workshops, this cross-disciplinary conference will promote knowledge and understanding of the range of ways in which the ‘First Total War’ has been mediated in visual cultures, not only in Britain and continental Europe but throughout the world. The organisers are keen to receive proposals for papers that present new research and/or methodological approaches. In particular…

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Call for Papers: Dickens and the Visual Imagination, July 2012, UK

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Call for Papers ‘Dickens and the Visual Imagination’ 9-10 July 2012 An international two-day conference to celebrate the bicentenary of Charles Dickens in 2012. This conference, hosted by the Paul Mellon Centre in London and the University of Surrey in Guildford, will explore the interfaces between art history and textual scholarship through the work of Charles Dickens. The conference programme will also feature a reception at the Watts Gallery in nearby Compton, Surrey, to coincide with the gallery’s exhibition Dickens and Art. Plenary speaker: Professor Kate Flint (Rutgers University). Other speakers TBC. Dickens is renowned for the richness of his visual imagination and his publications encouraged readers to interpret his words with and through their accompanying illustrations. Not only was Dickens deeply engaged with ideas of the visual in his writing, but his work has also provoked responses from artists…

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Call for Papers – Shared Visions: Art, Theatre and Visual Culture in the Nineteenth Century Conference, Warwick, Feb 2012

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Call for Papers Shared Visions: Art, Theatre and Visual Culture in the Nineteenth Century Conference School of Theatre, Performance and Cultural Policy Studies, Millburn House, Warwick University Saturday 11th February 2012 10am to 6pm CFP Deadline: 15 November 2011 This one-day conference, held in conjunction with Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film, will explore the connections between art, theatre, and visual culture in the nineteenth century. During this period, the ‘art of seeing’ challenged the traditional dominance of the written word. Vision, previously denigrated as deceptive, became considered as a universal language, accessible to all, and more authentic than text. Popular theatre, especially melodrama, led the way in exploring the possibilities of the new visuality. We invite papers that explore the visual culture of theatre and exchanges between theatre and the visual arts. We are particularly interested in contributions which explore the…

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Lecture: ‘I have captured a shadow!’ William Henry Fox Talbot and the invention of photography

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NGV Lecture ‘I have captured a shadow!’ – William Henry Fox Talbot and the invention of photography Frustrated by his appalling draughtsmanship, William Henry Fox Talbot (1800–1877) was compelled to invent the art of photography. Drawing on extensive archives of original photographs, manuscripts and letters, Larry J Schaaf argues that beyond the necessary act of invention, Talbot grew into the first artist to be taught by photography. Speaker Prof Larry J Schaaf, Director of The Correspondence of William Fox Talbot and independent photo historian and consultant based in Baltimore, Maryland. He taught photography and photographic history at The University of Texas at Austin, where he worked with the Gernsheim Collection of photography. Dr. Schaaf is the author of numerous books and journal articles on the early history of photography. Since 1999, he has been the Editor of ‘The Correspondence of…

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Floor Talk: Sir Thomas Lawrence’s George IV of England

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Floor Talk: Sir Thomas Lawrence’s George IV of England Speaker Helen Gill, Hugh D.T. Williamson Foundation Paintings Conservation, NGV Following conservation treatment in 2010, this portrait is currently on display for the first time in many years. Join us to hear how the conservation treatment has revived the previously damaged painting, uncovering fine and well articulated brushwork, restoring it to displayable condition and informing the reattribution. Date: Friday 12th August, 12:30pm. Venue: NGV International 180 St Kilda Road, meet at Information Desk Website: http://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/whats-on/programs/public-programs/floor-talk-sir-thomas-lawrences-george-iv-fo-england

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