Suffering, penance and martyrdom
The ocean of imagery in which we are all immersed makes it difficult to appreciate the power that resided (and continues to) in the painted (and sculpted) image during the sixteenth and seventeenth…
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Friday 7 September 2012
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Tuesday 26 June 2012
The Spanish are coming
The exhibition, an Australian first and exclusive to Brisbane, presents a portrait of Spain that starts with the perspectives of royal monarchs, their children, courtiers and jesters. The dark years of war are seen…
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Tuesday 28 February 2012
When Inspirations Hits
Over the course of the ‘Matisse Drawing Life’ exhibition, The Drawing Room has been a space for observation, contemplation and interpretation. The three thematic displays of The Drawing Room have been informed by…
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Monday 12 December 2011
The book as art
The particularly twentieth—century phenomenon of high—end book production by publishers such as Ambroise Vollard, Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, Albert Skira and Tériade (Stratis Eleftheriades) is broadly known as the livre d’artiste (Artist’s book). Picasso, Matisse,…
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Monday 5 December 2011
Proposed gift of a Degas sculpture by the late artist Margaret Olley
Edgar Degas’s sculptural practice was essentially an experimental and private studio activity. He exhibited only one sculpture during his lifetime. Danseuse regardant la plante de son pied droit (Dancer looking at the sole…
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Wednesday 30 November 2011
A long engagement
Of course there is no single answer, but on average, exhibitions of the scale and breadth of ‘Matisse: Drawing life’ take years rather than months. In this case it is most certainly years….
