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
One commonly held prerequisite for a successful portrait is that it will convey something of the psychological life of the sitter.
John Brack is renowned for his images that explore the discipline of art and the social rituals and realities of everyday livin
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…
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,…
Portrait of a young woman, after Cranach the Younger, II is Picasso’s interpretation of a painting by Renaissance artist Lucas Cranach the Younge
Baronne Madeleine Deslandes (1866–1929) was an accomplished novelist who moved in literary and artistic circles in Pari
Brook Andrew is an artist with a flair for provoking uncomfortable emotional states and destabilising conventional categories.
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…
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…
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
The National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) holds 140 prints by Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn, a growing collection of the artist’s intaglio works that began over 130 years ag
We find the path of an abstract painter an exceedingly difficult one here in Australia.
Surrealism is much more than an aesthetic. It’s really an attitude, or a set of attitude
Since 1994, Top Arts has showcased talented young artists at the National Gallery of Victoria.