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ART
Leonardo Live at Riverside
Picasso is here
Fox painting acquisition honors Olley
What to see in Canberra
Leonardo Live |
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IT'S art. It's on film. It's Leonardo Live.
The UK National Gallery exhibition, Leonardo da Vinci: Painter at the Court of Milan, has been captured in high definition and will have two screenings at Riverside Theatres this month.
The exhibition had the largest number ever of da Vinci's paintings, including a new, never-before-seen Leonardo painting.
The screening features footage on the eve of the exhibition opening in London in November 2011 along with extra content.
February 19 at 1pm, February 20 at 11am. $20/$13.50 + transaction fee. Bookings: 02-8839-3399 or riversideparramatta.com.au.
Left: Pablo Picasso Deux femmes courant sur la plage (La course)(Two women running on the beach (The race)) 1922, gouache on plywood 32.5 × 41.1 cm, Pablo Picasso Bequest, 1979, MP78 Right: Pablo Picasso Le baiser (The kiss) 1969, oil on canvas, 97 × 130 cm, Pablo Picasso Bequest, 1979, MP220 © Succession Picasso, 2011/Licensed by Viscopy, 2011 © Paris, Réunion des Musées Nationaux/Jean-Gilles Berizzi © Musée National Picasso, Paris |
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MORE than 150 paintings, sculptures, prints and drawings by Pablo Picasso are on exhibition at the Art Gallery of New South Wales until March 25.
Picasso: masterpieces from the Musée National Picasso, Paris, jointly organised by Musée National Picasso, the Art Gallery of NSW and Art Exhibitions Australia (AEA), was conceived, curated and mounted by Musée National Picasso general commissioner and president Anne Baldassari, one of the world's leading experts on the artist’s work.
The international tour was initiated and created by the Musée National Picasso, the largest and most significant repository of the artist's work in the world. It has since travelled since 2008 to cities including Madrid, Tokyo, Moscow, Seattle and San Francisco.
The unprecedented opportunity to bring the exhibition to Sydney is possible because the Musée is closed for renovations.
Art Gallery of NSW, until March 25. Timed entry tickets $25/$18/members $15/family $65. Booked school groups $7 per student. Group discounts, premium tickets, and packages also available.
Emanuel Phillips Fox Nasturtiums c 1912
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IN honor of painter Margaret Olley, herself a patron of the arts and a distinguished and much-honoured Australian, the Art Gallery Society of New South Wales, on behalf of the Art Gallery of NSW, has acquired the Emanuel Phillips Fox painting Nasturtiums.
Phillips Fox is renowned as the author of many of the most sumptuous and splendidly coloured images painted by Australian artists in Europe at the turn of the 20th century. Nasturtiums is considered the most significant in the women-in-garden paintings which Phillips Fox created over 1911–12.
"Nasturtiums is a superb addition to the Gallery's collection and joins major paintings from the Edwardian and belle époque era by expatriates Rupert Bunny, John Russell, Ethel Carrick Fox and Phillips Fox himself. Margaret Olley would have loved this painting as Phillips Fox was one of her favourite artists," said Art Gallery of NSW director Edmund Capon.
Olley died in July this year.
 » THIS sculpture of pears guards the approach to the National Gallery of Australia which lies at the base of the
triangle formed by Commonwealth Ave, Kings Ave and Lake Burley Griffin with the Australian Parliament at its
apex. The pears are the work of George Baldesin (1929-1978) who was born in Italy and lived in Australia from
1949 after having lived and worked in England, Italy, Brazil and France. The National Gallery of Australia building
was opened in 1982 and houses permanent and visiting exhibitions covering a wide spectrum of Australian and
other countries' art.
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» THE art galleries and museums in Canberra are close enough to Sydney for a day's visit.
Be sure to visit the National Gallery of Australia (check out the current exhibitions) and the National Museum of Australia which is a repository of much Aboriginal art and artefacts.
If visiting the Australian Parliament, you can almost saunter down to the Old Parliament House which is now home to the Museum of Australian Democracy.
If military art and artefacts interest you, a visit to the Australian War Memorial may be worthwhile.
Students and families with children can also have an enjoyable couple of hours at Questacon, the national science and technology centre.
is published weekly except in the last two weeks in December and the first two weeks in January. Copyright 2012 Larry Rivera
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