Exploring art is not just a visual experience, the act of seeing can trigger a whole range of responses, our sensory awareness is awakened by visual cues by engaging our memories of smell, sound, touch and feel. From the slipperiness of soap to the flickering wick of an oil lamp, visceral connections increase the depth…
Continue reading » “The fragility of life: Understanding its symbolism”
From an exquisite devotional scene, to a young Comtesse who was part of the royal court of Queen Marie-Antoinette, and a fleeting impression of nature, these works by Gerard David, Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, and Vincent van Gogh span 300 years of innovation, reaching forward from the past to touch and move us in…
Continue reading » “Pigment and paint: A passion for colour”
QAGOMA’s Installation team are one of the Gallery’s many groups travelling under the radar, away from public attention, but whose crucial and careful work is on full view for the public. Installation is at the pointy end of a trajectory that involves many people pulling in unison to produce the exhibitions we see. We go…
Continue reading » “Spirit levels in the company of greatness”
An exhibition of 65 artworks representing the achievements of the greatest painters in the Western tradition from one of the world’s leading art museums is undoubtedly a drawcard. Add to this The Studio — a QAGOMA initiative developed with QUT’s Dr Kate Thompson (Associate Professor of Digital Pedagogies in the Creative Industries, Education and Social…
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The coral of Selvaggia Sassetti’s necklace would not have travelled far from its once plentiful source in the Mediterranean sea. Precious red coral grows in a characteristic branching plant like form from the rocky sea bed, preferring the darkness of deeper water or underwater caves — for hundreds of years its main trade centre has…
Continue reading » “The jewellery of Selvaggia Sassetti (born 1470)”
Auguste Renoir (1841–1919) was a founding member of the Impressionists — with Claude Monet, Edgar Degas and Alfred Sisley and later, Paul Gauguin, Vincent van Gogh and Paul Cézanne — a group of artists who painted in Paris in the mid-1800s. In defiance of academic tradition, they painted out of doors and used a bright…
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