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NGV to bring Monet’s Garden to Melbourne
The National Gallery of Victoria, in association with Art Exhibitions Australia, today announced the next installment of the highly successful Melbourne Winter Masterpieces series, Monet’s Garden: The Musée Marmottan Monet,…
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Radiance: The Neo-Impressionists
This summer’s must-see exhibition Radiance: The Neo-Impressionists will open at the National Gallery of Victoria on 16 Novembe
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Collection rehang at NGV International
Something not often considered by our audience is that as the NGV Collection is of such high quality many of our great treasures are often lent to exhibitions both in…
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Les Merveilleuses
Napoleon’s wife to be, Marie-Josèphe-Rose de Tascher de la Pagerie, was one of a small elite of remarkably gifted, charming and alluring young women around whom Parisian Society gathered at…
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HABITAT
A group of young emerging artists will team up with established artistic mentors to occupy NGV Studio in September as part of HABITAT.
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Rethinking an unknown carte-de-visite
While searching through the NGV’s collection of Australian cartes-de-visite recently we came across this imag
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Rethinking an unknown carte-de-visite
While searching through the NGV’s collection of Australian cartes-de-visite recently we came across this imag
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Confounding
Contemporary Photography
Photography has the uncanny ability to make the strange, uncomfortable
and awkward seem plausible, to suggest a confounding alternative
reality. The photographers in this exhibition use found objects in
macabre still lives, propose perplexing narratives using models and
dolls, employ a variety of techniques to create disturbing portraits and
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Permanent collection changes at NGV Australia
Last week was mostly about rehanging the twentieth century galleries on level 2 at NGV Australia.
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Final chance to see the iconic works of Fred Williams
In just four weeks’ time, the National Gallery of Victoria must close the doors on Fred Williams: Infinite Horizons, the first major retrospective of Fred Williams’s work in over 25…
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Storm the NGV this Bastille Day, Saturday 14 July!
The National Gallery of Victoria is celebrating Bastille Day Saturday 14 July, by offering visitors $10 tickets to Napoleon: Revolution to Empire from 5pm to midnight.
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Napoleon and Josephine: Outsiders in Love
Napoleon at twenty-six was a dashing young Officer, whose star was rising fast in the Revolutionary Army.
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Top Arts 2012 – Monique Revel
I did Year 12 at CAE last year – I originally did my last year of school in the Netherlands, but it didn’t crossover to Australia so I did it…
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Top Arts 2012 – Tim Cummins
I studied at St Leonards in Year 12.
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Radiance
The Neo-Impressionists
Be inspired by the vibrant beauty of the luminous landscapes, glittering Parisian cityscapes and stunning portraits in this survey of the Neo-Impressionist movement. Forging a new path in the mid 1880s, Georges Seurat moved away from the earlier style of the French Impressionists, who had favoured the capturing of natural light and the first impression brought by a particular scene. Seurat preferred instead a more ordered and ‘scientific’ method of painting. This new method saw him place individual dabs of colour side by side on the canvas, rather than mixing colours together. When contrasting colours are placed side by side in this way, they oscillate against each other, creating an effect of shimmering light in the viewer’s eye. This regular repetition of colour touches brought an almost abstract visual rhythm across the painted canvas. Rejecting naturalism and the illusion of perspective, Neo-Impressionism later evolved towards ever more striking colour harmonies. The exhibition features spectacular paintings by Seurat, Paul Signac, Maximilien Luce and Théo van Rysselberghe among others, and is the first of its kind to be staged in Australia.
Book now at https://www.ngv.v