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WEBNGV Australia Grace Crowley & Ralph Balson Until 22 Sep, free entry NGV Australia Reimagining Birrarung Design Concepts for 2070 Until 2 Feb, free entry NGV Australia Wurrdha Marra NGV Collection Ongoing, free entry NGV Australia Australian Art NGV Collection Ongoing, free entry NGV Australia The Joseph Brown Collection NGV …
Collection | NGV
WEBCollection. The National Gallery of Victoria’s permanent collection of more than 75,000 works is at the heart of the Gallery’s activities and programs. Since its foundation in 1861, the Collection has come to span the history and development of Australian, Indigenous and international art, design and architecture.
Goya: Drawings from the Prado Museum | NGV
WEBThe world-exclusive exhibition Goya: Drawings from the Prado Museum features more than 160 works on paper by Francisco Goya (1746–1828), celebrating the artist’s extraordinary imagination. Goya is considered to be one of the first truly modern artists. In humorous observations, confronting depictions of violence, and surreal flights of fantasy, he …
Works | NGV | View Work
WEBGallery location Late 19th & early 20th Century Paintings & Decorative Arts Gallery Level 2, NGV International About this work. In 1937 Picasso painted Guernica, a large mural that represented the trauma of war and the bombing of Guernica, Spain, during the Second World War.Picasso’s Weeping women compositions of the same year share a common …
Hokusai and The great wave | NGV
WEBThis iconic woodblock print, known as The great wave off Kanagawa or, more commonly, The great wave, from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji, 1830–34, by the famous Edo artist Katsushika Hokusai, is included in the National Gallery of Victoria’s Hokusai exhibition. ‘The exhibition features full sets of all Hokusai’s major ...
Napoleon > Who was Josephine?
WEBNapoleon called Rose ‘Josephine’ and she adopted this name. They were married in March 1796. The Bonaparte family were hostile to the union and to Rose from the outset. While the ideal Corsican woman was diligent, frugal, passionate and dedicated to family, Josephine was immodest, spendthrift and easy-going but emotional.
Melbourne Winter Masterpieces exhibition 2022: The Picasso …
WEBThe world-premiere Melbourne Winter Masterpieces exhibition, The Picasso Century, charts the extraordinary career of Pablo Picasso in dialogue with the many artists, poets and intellectuals with whom he intercepted and interacted throughout the 20th century, including Guillaume Apollinaire, Georges Braque, Salvador Dalí, Alberto Giacometti, Françoise …
First Nations Art | NGV
WEBFirst Nations Art. Art has been an integral part of Indigenous culture for more than sixty-five thousand years. Building on holdings of rare nineteenth-century cultural objects and drawings, the NGV Indigenous collection charts the evolution of contemporary Indigenous art throughout all regions of Australia and across media.
Australian Art | NGV
WEBThe Australian Art collection documents the history and development of painting, sculpture, decorative arts and design in Australia from European settlement to 1980. It charts the work of major artists of the colonial and postcolonial period, as well as the broader sociohistorical and cultural contexts that have shaped Australian art history.
Whistler’s Mother | NGV
WEBOne of the world’s most iconic paintings, James McNeill Whistler’s Portrait of the artist’s mother, 1871, has been unveiled at the National Gallery of Victoria in its Australian debut.On loan from the Musée d’Orsay, Paris, and exhibited exclusively at the NGV in association with Art Exhibitions Australia, Whistler’s Mother explores the complex work …
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