Charles Blackman is renowned for his images that explore the duality of life: innocence and experience, fantasy and fact, dreams and nightmares, beauty and savagery
The dream started on the way to an annual Top Arts tour in 2013. “I’ll be in the exhibition next year guys, it’ll be a life-sized lino
Identity, self-scrutiny, memory and the tensions inherent in human relationships are the core themes of Louise Bourgeois’s ar
In his 1953 publication on the drawings of Parmigianino (Girolamo Maria Francesco Mazzola) (1503–1540), A.
Few acquisitions by the Felton Bequest have offered such drama, such expectancy and such a direct tribute to Alfred Felton
Nature had not only painted there in all her hues But there the sweetness of a thousand scents Was blended in one fragrance strange and new.
This year marks the centenary of the death of Alfred Felton, the great Melbourne philanthropist whose benefaction to the National Gallery of Victoria, bequeathed in his will, has defined the…
This year marks the centenary of the death of Alfred Felton, the great Melbourne philanthropist whose benefaction to the National Gallery of Victoria, bequeathed in his will, has defined the…
The ground-breaking work of Australian photographer and filmmaker Sue Ford will be explored in a major retrospective opening at the National Gallery of Victoria on 17 April.
“ I am honoured and flattered that my exhibition will travel to Australia and I am thrilled to be returning to a country that I have visited only once, many…
Paintings by famous early Renaissance artists are rare in Australian collections, so the realisation that the Saint George and the dragon, c.1430 (fig.
Emil Todt, the German sculptor whose plaster figure group The gold diggers (fig.
Eric Westbrook was born in London on 29 September in 1915.
Introduction This paper discusses three paintings by Eugène von Guérard in the collection of the National Gallery of Victori
Steiner eurhythmy and modernist visual arts The aesthetics of eurhythmy as they were first outlined by the modernist dramaturge and Christian mystic, Rudolf Steiner (1861–1925), were cogently realised within Roger…
Wang Yuanqi (1642–1715) and Daoji or Shitao (1642–1707) were born in the same year but led very different li