Author: | Alisa Bunbury |
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Art |
The Russell and Mab Grimwade Bequest comprises a rich and sometimes unexpected variety of art, books and objects.
A scientist, businessman and philanthropist, Sir Russell had wide-ranging interests embracing industry, history and botany. In all of ... read more
Author: | David Thomas |
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Art |
Criss Canning is one of Australia's best loved and most celebrated still life artists. Inspired by the beauty of nature and the works of advanced European modernists, and with dedication to the absolutes of colour and pictorial composition, she has created paint... read more
With his remarkable evocations of light and the landscape, Australian artist Arthur Streeton (1867-1943) remains one of the most enduring and popular painters in Australian art. His sun-drenched impressionist landscapes from the 1880s, joyful depictions of Sydney beaches and harbour in the 189... read more
Author: | Philip Hughes |
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Art |
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From Karinjini in the west to Fraser Island in the east, via the northern Kimberley and far southwest of Tasmania, Painting the Ancient Land of Australia follows painter Philip Hughes, palette in hand, across the length and breadth of the country. Hughes's work i... read more
Author: | The Metropolitan Museum of Art |
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Art |
An entirely new approach to exploring global art history, presented through the lens of one of the world's leading art museums
Featuring more than 800 artworks from the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, this groundbreaking ... read more
Author: | Frances Ambler |
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Art |
Series: | Brief Lessons Ser. |
Open your life to new ways of seeing with inspirational perspectives from Turner, van Gogh and more. 'I like looking at art. You're always looking and learning and changing your perception about things' - Alex Katz There are as many ways to look as there are to ... read more
Author: | Joy Fitzsimmons |
Category: |
Art |
A light-hearted look at art through canine eyes.
Join dachshunds Ned and Henry for an energetic romp through the world of art, encountering famous paintings and sculptures from a four-legged perspective. Watch them lead their gang of hounds - inc... read more
Author: | Antony Gormley; Martin Gayford |
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Art |
Sculpture is the universal art. It has been practised by every culture throughout the world and stretches back into the distant past. The first surviving shaped stones may even predate the advent of language. The drive to form stone, clay, wood and met... read more
Author: | Susie Hodge |
Category: |
Art |
Series: | The\Short Story Of Ser. |
The Short Story of Women Artists tells the full history - from the breakthroughs that women have made in pushing for parity with male artists, to the important contributions mad... read more
As Professor Sasha Grishin writes: 'The artist, the print and the matrix sounds more like a title for a Peter Greenaway film than a title for an essay on the art of Bruno Leti'. In printmaking, the artform - along with painting, photography and the making of artists' books - that has occupied Bruno... read more
Author: | Georges Petitjean |
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Art |
Following on from the success of the exhibition Before Time Began, Fondation Opale is taking on a new challenge with a show that juxtaposes contemporary Aboriginal art with prominent examples of contemporary art created in a Western and Asian tradition.
This beautifully illustrated cat... read more
Author: | Jean-Michel Basquiat; Larry Warsh (Editor) |
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Art |
Series: | ISMs Ser. |
A collection of essential quotations and other writings from artist and icon Jean-Michel Basquiat One of the most important artists of the late twentieth century, Jean-Michel Basquiat explored the interplay of words and images throughout his career as a celebrated painter with an instantl... read more