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Tag: Dutch Art

Sydney Morning Herald Column

Rembrandt – True to Life

Tuesday, June 27th, 2023 Sydney Morning Herald Column,

When the exhibition, Rembrandt: A Genius and His Impact, was shown in Melbourne at the end of 1997, viewers were surprised by the quality of the loans. It was widely assumed that leading museums would never lend us major works by the Dutch Master, but this did not take into account the negotiating skills of […]

Sydney Morning Herald Column

Escher X nendo

Thursday, December 20th, 2018 Sydney Morning Herald Column,

M.C.Escher is one of those artists that exerts an irresistible fascination on young minds. I remember being entranced by the Dutchman’s drawings while still at school after an art teacher suggested I look at his work. Even if the name is unfamiliar, at some stage you will have probably seen one of Escher’s signature images […]

Sydney Morning Herald Column

Rembrandt & the Dutch Golden Age

Saturday, December 2nd, 2017 Sydney Morning Herald Column,

“There is one work by Vermeer, the undoubted superstar, and six by Rembrandt, including two from the NGV’s permanent collection. Three portraits by Frans Hals give some indication of this artist’s remarkable flair and dash. After that, it is a pot-pourri of genres and tendencies…” No, I’m not writing about Rembrandt & the Dutch Golden […]

Sydney Morning Herald Column

Intensely Dutch

Saturday, July 18th, 2009 Sydney Morning Herald Column,

All curators at major institutions know that the witty, allusive, poetic titles they dream up for exhibitions will probably have to give way to something banal but comprehensible. What a clever title New Worlds From Old was – but nobody seemed to realise it referred to a show of Australian and American paintings from the […]