A post-Surrealist game of consequences and sequences followed the meeting of George Baldessin and Imants Tillers at the Sao Paolo Biennale of 1975
When Boccaccio wrote his book, De Claris Mulieribus (Concerning Famous Women) (after 1351), Cleopatra was the epitome of Luxuria, that medieval vice pictured as a bejewelled naked women, the embodiment of extravagant…
If we were not in the presence of the paintings, as we are so appropriately this evening, and were asked to describe the characteristic manner of Fred Williams, we would, perhaps, conjure…
Home again, painted in 1884 by Frederick McCubbin, is the major painting of the artist’s early work (fig.
According to Henry-Claude Cousseau, Jean Dubuffet went to the Sahara in 1947, 1948 and 1949 hoping to find a new provocation for his work.1 H
Boucher was one of those men who indicate the taste of a century, express, personify, embody it. In him, French eighteenth-century taste was manifest, in all the peculiarity of its character
Download The Annual Bulletin of the National Gallery of Victoria 1963 presents a range of scholarly essays about the following topics: early masterpieces of Iranian pottery, a porcelain pouring bowl…
Download The Annual Bulletin of the National Gallery of Victoria 1962 presents a range of scholarly essays about the following topics: bronzes from ancient Iran, a new drawing by Giovanni…
Download The Annual Bulletin of the National Gallery of Victoria 1961 presents a range of scholarly essays about the following topics: recent additions to the Greek vase collection, works by…
Download The Annual Bulletin of the National Gallery of Victoria 1960 presents a range of scholarly essays about the following works, artists and topics: The Countess of Southampton by Sir…
Download The Annual Bulletin of the National Gallery of Victoria 1959 presents an introduction by Director Eric Westbrook, an extended essay about the recently acquired Livy manuscript and a text…
Download The Annual Bulletin of the National Gallery of Victoria 1964 encompasses essays that examine a wide range of works from the NGV’s collectio
Among various anecdotes narrated by Pliny the Elder that reveal the illusionistic skills of the Greek painters, the one recounting how Zeuxis was deluded by the drapery painted by his rival Parrhasios…
The artist must be … encouraged to speak freely in the ‘language’ which he feels is essential to him for his self-expression, and we must try to learn the l
The story of Guernica is by now one of the most familiar in the annals of modern art