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Public Forum: Aspects of Gustave Moreau

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Gustave Moreau, 'The Apparition', 1874. Musée Gustave Moreau.

Aspects of Gustave Moreau A Free Public Forum Four expert speakers will address different aspects of Gustave Moreau’s art and work. This free public forum is held in conjunction with a major exhibition of his works, Gustave Moreau and the Eternal Feminine, at the NGV International. Speakers Dr Ted Gott, National Gallery of Victoria Eugene Barilo von Reisberg, University of Melbourne Lucy Ellem, La Trobe University Angela Hesson, The Johnston Collection Introduced and convened by Associate Professor Alison Inglis. Date:  Friday, 8 April 2021 1:30 – 3:30 pm Venue: Elisabeth Murdoch…

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Lecture: Ted Gott ‘Salome and Sirens, Severed Heads and Damsels in Distress’

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Gustave Moreau, 'The Apparition', 1874. Musée Gustave Moreau.

Dr Ted Gott Senior Curator, International Art Salome and Sirens, Severed Heads and Damsels in Distress: The Unique World of Gustave Moreau Gustave Moreau inhabited an imaginative world that set his art, and himself, apart in fin-de-siecle Paris. While his art became ever more liberated and independent, his own lifestyle became ever more reclusive. Join Ted Gott as he retraces Moreau’s compelling journey from his optimistic student years in Italy, through the public setbacks and personal tragedies that shaped his utterly unique aesthetic. Date: Wednesday, 23 February 2011, 6pm for 6.30pm…

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Review: David R. Marshall – Gustave Moreau and the Eternal Feminine at the NGV

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Gustave Moreau, 'The Apparition', 1874. Musée Gustave Moreau.

Gustave Moreau & the Eternal Feminine Melbourne, National Gallery of Victoria 10 December 2020 – 10 April 2021 Reviewed by David R. Marshall Gustave Moreau (1826-1898) has always been hard to place. To his contemporaries he was an establishment painter distracted by eccentricity, and he did not fit the grand modernist narrative that lead from Impressionism to Modernism. He has settled down to being the precursor of Symbolism, the teacher who showed the way to Redon and the Symbolists but never quite made it there himself. But perhaps what emerges most…

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