2009 Canberra National Gallery of Australia French Masterpieces Art Exhibition Dates and Times

MonaLacy — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 08:16:18 +0000

After 8 solid years of great relationship that the National Gallery shared with National Australia Bank they have come up with this spectacular exhibit entitled, “Masterpieces from Paris, Van Gogh Gauguin, Cezanne and beyond “. The Australian community is lucky to be given this opportunity of a lifetime to see great masterpieces from the famous and respected French painters.

Who would have thought that the valuable works of Vincent van Gogh, Claude Monet, Paul Cézanne, Paul Gauguin, Georges Seurat, Pierre Bonnard, Maurice Denis and Edouard Vuillard will grace the city of Canberra from December 4, 2009 up to April 5, 2010 all at the same time?

Most of the prized French paintings included in the exhibit are those that we just see from the history books as they rarely go out of their permanent home at the Musee d’Orsay in Paris.

Expect to be enthralled by a total of 114 paintings which includes seven paintings from Vincent Van Gogh, five from Claude Monet, eight from Paul Cezanne and nine from Paul Gaugiun to name a few.

Indeed, the National Gallery of Australia is beaming with excitement and pride that they will be able to offer the best of the French art and culture not only to the art lovers but even to novices and art students. It is the masterpieces first stopover as they will travel to Tokyo and San Francisco to complete the tour.

This event was made possible because the Post-Impressionist Galleries at the Musee d’Orsay in Paris is undergoing a major renovation and decided to lend them all together to different respectable museums in the world.

There are three confirmed masterpieces that will be showcased in the exhibit and that is Van Gogh’s Bedroom at Arles 1889, Gauguin’s Tahitian women 1891 and Cézanne’s beloved Mount Saint-Victoire c 1890.

Masterpieces from Paris Exhibition NGA Information Dates and Times

MonaLacy — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 08:30:02 +0000

Art aficionados would truly celebrate before the year ends as the National Gallery of Australia announced that they will be producing an exhibit entitled, “Masterpieces from Paris: Van Gogh Gauguin, Cezanne and beyond.” The National Gallery of Australia released that this exhibit will include around 112 of the most popular modern art paintings that is currently resides in Musee d’ Orsay in Paris. Imagine great masterpieces from Van Gogh, Gauguin, Cezanne and many other artists from Paris will be on display for four months from December 2009 to April 2010. Just to whet your appetite to this amazing collection of incredible works of art, here are some of those that you will be able to see up close and personal. Gogh’s Bedroom at Arles 1889. This is an oil on canvas painting which is Van Gogh’s own bedroom in his famous Yellow House in Arles, Bouches-du-Rhone, France. This would be the third and smaller version of the original work he did back in 1888. They look almost the same but not an exact copy. Gauguin’s Tahitian women 1891. This is called Femmes de Tahiti in French. It is also an oil on canvas painting done shortly after Gauguin’s arrival in Tahiti. He was one of the leading Post-impressionist painters in France. He abandoned the Impressionist movement and began painting using primitive art. Cézanne’s beloved Mount Saint-Victoire c 1890. Paul Cezanne is one of the most influential artists Post-impressionist era. He contributed much on the use Cubism and his optical phenomena and geometric art explorations said to have inspired other great artists such as Picasso and Braque among others.

These great masters were also friends but some said that their relationship were somehow rocky. Paul Gauguin even lived on that same Yellow House of Vincent Van Gogh for nine weeks. If you get the chance to attend the exhibit, if you notice a door on the right of Van Gogh’s The Bedroom painting, that one leads to Gauguin’s own bedroom.

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2009 Canberra National Gallery of Australia French Masterpieces Art Exhibition Dates and Times

Masterpieces from Paris Exhibition NGA Information Dates and Times