Tag: French Art

Public Forum: Aspects of Gustave Moreau

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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 Lecture Theatre, The University of Melbourne, Parkville. This event is free. All Welcome. Enquiries: contact Alison Inglis asi@unimelb.edu.au Abstracts and Speaker Bios Angela Hesson ‘Dominance, Dissonance, and Decoration: Gustave Moreau and the feminine fetish’ This paper will explore Moreau’s artistic interventions into questions of femininity and feminisation, and the influence of these…

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

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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 Venue: Clemenger BBDO Auditorium, NGV International, 180 St Kilda Road (enter North entrance, via the Arts Centre forecourt). Cost: Friends of the Gallery Library – Free, Guest – $15. Bookings essential, includes refreshments on arrival. Bookings deadline 16 February 2011, 03 8620 2258 OR email: jessemyn.schippers@ngv.vic.gov.au

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

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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 from this exhibition is less his eccentricity or Symbolism than his obsessiveness. Why did he need to make so many studies, in so many various media and styles? He reminds me of his near contemporary Facteur Cheval (1836–1924), the obsessive French postman who single-handedly built a bizarre fantasy palace at…

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Symposium: Gustave Moreau and the Eternal Feminine

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Symposium: Gustave Moreau and the Eternal Feminine Keynote Speakers: Mme Marie-Cécile Forest, Director, Musée Gustave-Moreau; Dr Gerard Vaughan, Director, NGV; Frances Lindsay, Deputy Director, NGV; and Dr Ted Gott, Senior Curator, International Art, NGV To mark the opening of this major exhibition, a range of international and local speakers present a fascinating array of papers on Gustave Moreau, the history of the Musée Gustave-Moreau and its collection. Includes optional exhibition viewing 8.45–10am. Date: 11 December 2010, 10am – 1:30pm Venue: Clemenger BBDO Auditorium NGV International 180 St Kilda Road (enter north entrance, via Arts centre forecourt) Bookings: Ph +61 3 8662 1555 (10am-5pm daily) Event Code: P10130 Editor’s note: Follow this link for our review of the exhibition.

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News | Kenneth Reed Bequest for the Art Gallery of New South Wales

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Kenneth Reed Bequest for the Art Gallery of New South Wales Katrina Grant Kenneth Reed, a Sydney-based lawyer, has announced that  he will bequeath a substantial collection of old master paintings, as well as collections of Italian Maiolica and eighteenth-century European porcelain to the Art Gallery of New South Wales. There are more than 70 items in total and the bequest will represent a significant addition to the gallery’s European collection. The paintings include a large number of landscapes – including view paintings and architectural capricci – several portraits and several religious a scenes. The most significant is perhaps the fully finished sketch or modello by the seventeenth-century painter Andrea Camassei ‘St Peter in prison baptising Saintss Processus and Martinian’ (c. 1630-1), which he painted in preparation for an altarpiece in fresco at St Peter’s in Rome. The fresco was…

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Lecture: Dr Elisabeth Taburet-Delahaye on ‘France 1500: Between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance’

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Dr Elisabeth Taburet-Delahaye Director of the Cluny Museum, Paris ‘France 1500: Between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance’ Dr Taburet-Delahaye, visiting Hancock Fellow at the Australian Tapestry Workshop, is the principal curator of the exhibition France 1500 which opened at the Grand Palais in  Paris on 6 October 2010. This exhibition explores a time of unprecedented artistic contact and creative effervescence in France, and takes a close look at various aspects of the art of the time. The exhibition encompasses painting, sculpture, stained glass, tapestry, gold work and the art of the book. It will travel to the Art Institute of Chicago in February 2011. This lecture is the second of a three-part series to be presented in Melbourne by Dr Taburet-Delahaye, sponsored by the Australian Tapestry Workshop, the National Gallery of Victoria and the Academic Centre.  Please see each…

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Symposium – European Masters: Städel Museum, 19th – 20th Century

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Symposium European Masters: Städel Museum, 19th-20th Century Saturday 19th June – NGV International European Masters: Städel Museum, 19th–20th Century comes to the NGV as part of the highly successful Melbourne Winter Masterpieces series. The exhibition brings together a remarkable collection from the Städel Museum in Frankfurt, one of the finest art collections in Europe. Alongside the great German masters Friedrich, Stuck, Corinth, Heckel and Beckmann, European Masters includes beautiful Impressionist works by Monet, Renoir, Degas and Cézanne, as well as important paintings by Klinger, Munch and Bonnard. This is an unprecedented opportunity to see a spectacular array of the finest European art spanning the dynamic and transformative years of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Join us for the rare and exciting opportunity to hear about this spectacular exhibition from the Director and Curator of the Städel Museum and others. Program…

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