Bendigo Art Gallery – Celebrate Bodies, Natural or Undressed
Bendigo Art Gallery celebrates the human form with two revealing exhibitions; The Body Beautiful in Ancient Greece and Undressed – 350 years of undergarments
Sculpture
Colour Considerations – Tradition, Legend, Myth and Magic
All cultures on earth have particular perceptions of and about colour, which in its evolution has come to symbolize many things collectively and individually
Creating a Cameo – Painting in Stone, a Sculpture to Wear
Painting in ‘stone’ on buildings in antiquity transposed into jewelry (jewellery) as a Cameo, a raised portrait that was a miraculous union of art and nature
Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux at The Met – The Gift & The Curse
The Passions of Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux on show at The Met NY, reveals the works of exceptionally gifted French sculptural artist during a brilliant brief career
Body Beautiful in Ancient Greece – Treasures Down Under 2014
Beauty was something all the gods of Ancient Greece were known to love and admire. The exhibition: The Body Beautiful in Ancient Greece, originating at the British Museun will be on show at the Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria from 2nd August to 9th November. The Body Beautiful in Ancient Greece…
Mossgreen Gallery & Auctions – Creating the Business of Art
Mossgreen is an auction house and art gallery, a creative place where private sales in the world of art and design are brokered conducting the business of art
John Morris Sculptor at the Lethbridge Gallery, Brisbane
The works of sculptor John Morris on show at the Lethbridge Gallery spring from exhaustive sketching, intensive research and the imagery of fashion photography
Sculpture – Art at the Pinnacle of What is Possible
Myron, Polykleitos and Lysippus to Michelangelo, Bernini, Canova, Rodin and Moore how do you choose a dozen or so works of sculpture that have rocked your world
Gian Lorenzo Bernini: Sculpting in Clay before Marble
At Rome Bernini displayed unparalleled virtuosity taking his ideas for three dimensional sculpture to reality producing art at the pinnacle of what was possible
Enlightenment – On Beauty and Thought Provoking Works
In 18th century Europe aesthetics was a field of study . Beautiful works were seen as thought provoking, but clearly distinguished from those considered sublime
Angelica Kauffmann Artist – A Woman of Influence & Style
In the eighteenth century women usually painted under assumed male names and often their work was re-signed and copied by unscrupulous collectors and dealers.
Jo Bayley’s Impressions – Meeting Sculptor Suzie O’Shea
On a clear June winter’s day , we met Suzie O’Shea. Mud covering her apron, a mass of dark curls atop of her head, and a mischievous glint in her eye, she is a character borne from delicious imagination. After experiencing her salon in Bendigo filled with clay dresses of…
The Metropolitan Museum of Art New York – Exalting the Arts
The collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art at New York reflect the evolution of humankind exalting the arts in a celebration of life from antiquity-today
Antiques & Art, Culture & Commerce for Breakfast @ Tiffany’s
One of the most enduring programs on television for 30+ years is about antiques and art. For BBC London the Antiques Roadshow is a jewel in its media crown
Beauty of Form
Aphrodite, Adonis, Apollo, Artemis…are about ennoblement of form in Ancient Greece. Its visual remains, its architecture, ceramics, and most especially the statues of male and female bodies are for many aesthetically beautiful. But how can so many things be beautiful in Ancient Greece when they are entirely dissimilar? Is beauty…
An Eye for Art
The Regency era (1792 – 1830) in England saw the rise of the first professional art critics who were wealthy connoisseurs or collectors like Richard Payne Knight (fine eye for erotica) and journalists like William Hazlitt. Trained as a painter Hazlitt had first hand knowledge of the technical and aesthetic…