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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
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Fred Williams: Infinite Horizons
On April 7 the National Gallery of Victoria opened the first major retrospective of Fred Williams’s work in over 25 year
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Fred Williams
Infinite Horizons
A National Gallery of Australia Exhibition
Fred Williams pioneered a new vision of the Australian landscape, and became one of the most important Australian artists of the twentieth century. This exhibition highlights Williams’ strength as a painter including important oil paintings and luminous gouaches to reveal his distinctive approach. He sought inspiration from the unique landscapes of places such Upwey in Victoria, Tasmania’s Bass Strait and the arid Pilbara region of Western Australia, drawing on the abstract qualities of the distant horizons of this vast coun
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Australian first: NGV unpacks Kilmt masterpiece
Today, 8 June 2011, the National Gallery of Victoria unveiled one of Gustav Klimt’s most renowned and spectacular works, the portrait of Emilie Flöge (picture
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Winner announced for the Goldman Sachs People’s Choice Award
Top Arts: VCE 2010 has again proven to be one of the National Gallery of Victoria’s most popular annual exhibitions, with thousands of students, teachers and families visiting the show…