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Pablo Picasso’s Portrait of a young lady
This iconic linocut, based on Lucas Cranach the Younger’s 1564 Portrait of a young lady at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, is one of Picasso’s most famous and enduring statements in the graphic mediumR
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The sorcerer's machine: a photographic portrait by Douglas Kilburn, 1847
One commonly held prerequisite for a successful portrait is that it will convey something of the psychological life of the sitter.
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John Brack’s Self Portrait
John Brack is renowned for his images that explore the discipline of art and the social rituals and realities of everyday livin
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A Bernini self-portrait?
In 1976 the National Gallery of Victoria acquired from the dealer David Carritt in London a portrait of a young man, a work identified as a self-portrait of the young…
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The Multiple Worlds of Cindy Sherman’s History Portraits
It does not seem unlikely to me that there is a total book on some shelf of the universe; I pray to the unknown gods that a man – just one,…
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Pablo Picasso Portrait of a young woman, after Cranach the Younger, II 1958
Portrait of a young woman, after Cranach the Younger, II is Picasso’s interpretation of a painting by Renaissance artist Lucas Cranach the Younge
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Edward Burne-Jones’s Portrait of Baronne Madeleine Deslandes
Baronne Madeleine Deslandes (1866–1929) was an accomplished novelist who moved in literary and artistic circles in Pari
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Brook Andrew: Ethical portraits and ghost-scapes
Brook Andrew is an artist with a flair for provoking uncomfortable emotional states and destabilising conventional categories.
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Edgar Degas’s Portrait of a woman
The recent loan of Edgar Degas’s Portrait of a woman to the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, on the occasion of the exhibition Degas: Master of French Art (12 December…
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At the edge of empires: a Biedermeier portrait from Trieste by Jožef Tominc
The Biedermeier style, which arose in central and northern Europe (Austro-Hungary, Germany and Denmark) between the close of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815 and the pan-European revolutions of 1848, has…
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The cult of the queen empress: royal portraiture in colonial Victoria
It was no coincidence that in 1861 the National Gallery of Victoria was officially opened by the governor, Sir Henry Barkly, on Queen Victoria’s birthday, 24 Ma
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When Crowley Met Balson
We find the path of an abstract painter an exceedingly difficult one here in Australia.
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Surrealism and Design
Surrealism is much more than an aesthetic. It’s really an attitude, or a set of attitude
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Top Arts 2024
Since 1994, Top Arts has showcased talented young artists at the National Gallery of Victoria.
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My Country
New South Wales SOPHIE HONESS, ARTIST Jonathan Jones, mentor Sophie Honess, a Gamilaroi woman living and working on Gomeroi Country in Tamworth, New South Wales, embraced the challenges of translating…