It is one of Australia’s best-loved paintings (main picture), emblematic of the growing prideful nationalism of a new country – well, new to Europeans who ignored, blighted and almost completely ...

In the conventional art mediums where straight lines, accurate depictions, and anatomy were given all the love and appreciation, Impressionism emerged as a cry for change. The little blurry lines, the ...

Barely a year goes by on the Australian art calendar without the announcement of a major Impressionist exhibition. The latest is the National Gallery of Victoria’s “international exclusive show”, ...

This is an impressive corporate exercise, bringing together more than 240 works from the heroic era of Australian art, from an unprecedented range of galleries and private collections. The stars are ...

A single-owner collection dominated by Australian Impressionist canvases will act as a bellwether for changing tastes in art when it goes to auction in Melbourne next month. Australian collectors were ...

Initial responses to “Faces of Impressionism: Portraits from American Collections,” currently showing at the Cleveland Museum of Art and running through July 30, 2000, could easily be dismissive.

She-Oak and sunlight is a visually stunning exhibition that brings together some of Australia’s most famous and much-loved paintings and presents them within a radically different context. Dr Anne ...

The story of Impressionism, then, is well-known. In 1860s Paris, the Academie des Beaux-Arts maintained a stranglehold on the display of art through its annual Salon. Through this exhibition the ...

The Canadian-born curator of Australia’s Impressionists, Christopher Riopelle, who visited Australia to secure loans from the Art Gallery of South Australia, National Gallery of Australia, Art Gallery ...