Paintings in ‘European Masterpieces from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York’ come to life with live artwork recreations by costumed models daily in The Studio ― from 1.30 – 3.30pm until 17 Oct ― located within the exhibition at the Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA). Draw using the materials supplied to create your own…
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This year marks 100 years of Australia’s oldest portrait award — The Archibald Prize — hosted by the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Since 1921 the prize, painted from life, has attracted National interest, controversy, court cases and continually sparks numerous debates, so to celebrate its centenary, we’ve made a list of works from…
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Up Late returns to Brisbane’s Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA) over two nights on Friday 27 and Saturday 28 August from 6.00pm to 10.30pm with sets by leading Queensland musicians and DJs for ‘European Masterpieces from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York’. Up Late is an opportunity to experience a line-up of live music on…
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The words we use to talk about art can often seem puzzling — Classicism, Humanism, Illusionism, Impressionism, Japonisme, Modernism, Realism, Romanticism, to name just a few — so why do art movements use the ‘ism’ suffix and where do they all come from? To clarify — a suffix is a letter or a group of…
Amid the newly established boulevards of 1870s Paris, a radical mode of painting emerged. In 1874, Claude Monet exhibited Impression, Sunrise, and the term ‘Impressionist’ was quickly adopted to describe the broad and direct approach of the artist and his contemporaries, including Edgar Degas. Degas was born in Paris on 19 July 1834 — as…
South Korean feminist artist Yun Suk-nam’s alluring theatrical installation Pink sofa 1996 (illustrated) has recently undergone conservation treatment. This early installation work is a comment on oppression of Korean women in a patriarchal society — it expresses painful personal memories and the artist’s fear of returning to domestic life. Treating the silk upholstery Born in…