Art Gallery of South Australia presents [i]Making Nature: Masters of European Landscape Art[/i] |
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| Written by rubin |
| Wednesday, 08 July 2009 04:27 |
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Awaken your senses and imagination to the possibility, promise and thrill of nature and explore the works of the masters of the European landscape tradition through its greatest exponents: Titian, Claude Lorrain, Rembrandt, Joseph Wright of Derby, J.M.W. Turner, James McNeill Whistler, Eugène Boudin, Vanessa Bell, Lucien Pissarro, Nikolaus Lang, Claude-Joseph Vernet, and Andy Goldsworthy. Curator of the exhibition and author of the accompanying book is Jane Messenger, the Art Gallery of South Australia’s Curator of European Art. Messenger said “this survey of European landscape art offers a rare opportunity to see how artists have imagined nature through the ages, which has in turn influenced the way we see the world around us. As the twentieth-century German artist Paul Klee stated “art does not reproduce the visible; rather it makes visible”. “The way the landscape is represented by the artist is dependant on his historical, political and cultural position, realising the strong association between the making of art and the time during which it was made” Curator Jane Messenger said. At a time when environmental issues are being so fiercely debated around the world, there is perhaps no better time to review how man has imagined or evaluated his relationship with nature and art through the ages.
Other exhibition-related events include expert guided tours, an art workshop The Lure of the Landscape with renowned watercolour exponent, Arthur Phillips, an “after-dark” DEPARTURE event and children’s art and craft sessions. The Art Gallery of South Australia (AGSA), is the premier arts institution in the Australian state of South Australia. It has, after Victoria, the largest state art collection in Australia. With a large collection of more than 35,000 works of art and more than 510,000 visitors annually, the AGSA is renowned for its leading collections of Australian art (notably Indigenous Australian and colonial art), European art and Asian art, as well as for its innovative exhibitions. The gallery was established in 1881, and has existed at its current location since 1900. Subsequent renovations and a significant extension of the building which opened in 1996 added contemporary display space without compromising the interior of the original Victorian building. Visit : www.artgallery.sa.gov.au/ Click on logo below to add this article to your favorite Social Website ~ |
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