Tag: Paris
Alphonse Mucha: Spirit of Art Nouveau
Saturday, July 13th, 2024 Art Column,It’s sheer coincidence the Art Gallery of NSW is hosting Alphonse Mucha: Sprit of Art Nouveau while the National Gallery of Australia is showing Gauguin’s World: Tōna Iho, Tōna Ao. Mucha and Gauguin were friends in Paris during that period we call the Belle Époque, but it would be difficult to imagine two more different […]
Paris – Impressions of Life 1880-1925
Friday, April 26th, 2024 Art Column,Of all the Parisian museums and galleries, the Musée Carnavalet is probably not a first-tier attraction, which is a distinct advantage from the visitor’s perspective. It means one is unlikely to encounter the hordes of selfie addicts that swarm around the Mona Lisa in the Louvre, or Van Gogh’s Self-portrait in the Musée d’Orsay. The […]
Sheila Hicks
Saturday, October 14th, 2023 Blog,Not many people get asked by the Louvre to deliver a lecture on tapestries. It seems a reasonable request of an artist who has dominated the field of fibre art for decades, but it’s left Sheila Hicks feeling slightly awkward. While her own star has never been higher, the prestige and authority of the famous […]
Farewell, Mr. Haffmann
Friday, April 8th, 2022 Film Reviews,Perhaps the only positive thing that can be said about the Nazi occupation of France, from 1940-44, was that it has inspired a lot of excellent movies. These years brought out the best and the worst of the French, from the heroism of the Resistance to the scandalous number of collaborators and informers that sought […]
It Must Be Heaven
Thursday, June 18th, 2020 Film Reviews,Elia Sulieman says he’d never seen a movie by Buster Keaton or Jacques Tati before he made his first feature in 1996. This may be true but these comics remain the inevitable points of comparison for his own style of silent humour. In It Must Be Heaven, Sulieman says exactly four words. When a New […]
Colette
Friday, December 14th, 2018 Film Reviews,“When one can enter the enchanted kingdom of reading,” said Colette, “why write?” Many writers have expressed a profound distaste for their profession, but Colette (1873-1954) was one of the most natural talents ever to pick up a pen. Although she felt writing to be a dreadful chore she produced a constant stream of novels, […]
Intrepid Women
Friday, February 16th, 2018 Art Column,It’s an historical fact that women have almost always outnumbered men at Australian art schools but accounted for only a small proportion of works acquired for public collections. The times have been a-changing for the past few decades, with no gallery overtly discriminating against female artists, but there is still a debt to be paid […]
Manet
Thursday, June 30th, 2011 Art Column, International Art,Edouard Manet (1832-83) was the complete Parisian and Paris is the ideal place to see his work – and not only because so many of his greatest paintings are to be found in the Musée d’Orsay. A short stroll across the Pont Royal takes us to the Louvre, where Titian’s Fete Champetre (c.1509) provided a […]
Paris sera toujours Paris
Wednesday, June 29th, 2011 Blog,There is such an incalculable amount that may be said about Paris, it’s tempting to just shut up. However, having not yet reached that charmed state where, like Anish Kapoor, I can title a volume of conversations: “I Have Nothing to Say”, I’m obliged to blog on regardless. Paris may not be the world capital […]
Ethel Carrick & E. Phillips Fox
Saturday, April 30th, 2011 Art Column, Australian Art,Words such as “delightful” do not play much of a role in this column, but if ever there were an occasion for such a lapse, it would be Art, Love & Life: Ethel Carrick & E. Phillips Fox, at the Queensland Art Gallery. The Foxes were a successful partnership, both as man and wife, and […]