Hugh Ramsay’s Two girls in white, was painted just two years before he died at the age of 28 in 1906. It is the central work in the National Gallery of Australia’s survey exhibition.
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The Dutch master has intrigued art-lovers for four centuries. His strength in depicting the human experience compels audiences even after four hundred years.
Images of wildfires are powerful, but can make climate catastrophe seem like something spectacular and distant. So some artists are focusing on the plants and bugs in our immediate surroundings.
Engineer, artist, mathematician, thinker: Leonardo da Vinci was all these and more.
A lot has been said about Leonardo and music, much of it speculation. But what do we know for sure?
Leonardo’s obsession with water flowed through his technical work, his art and his scientific ideas.
Many Renaissance-era masterworks depicted rape and sexual assault as erotic. Beginning in the 1970s, artists worked to redefine rape as a crime of aggression and act of female subjugation.
Some colour blind people only have two kinds of cone cell in their eye. Others have three kinds, but the cones do not pick up the same light waves as the cone cells in most people’s eyes do.
Practical advice from an expert about lighting, decoration and furnishings.
Later this month, Christie’s will be auctioning its first piece of AI art – a portrait created via machine learning.
Was it a marketing stunt or a critique of the market itself?
Through his art and his travels, 19th-century French Romantic painter Eugène Delacroix sought to understand the chaos of an era he called ‘the century of unbelievable things.’
Born into late-16th century Papal Rome, Gentileschi transcended the path of utter obscurity that was the lot of her female peers to become one of the most famous painters of the day.
The 1973 purchase of Jackson Pollock’s abstract expressionist painting – at a record price for the time – was a controversial moment in Australian art. Was it worth it?
Throughout his life, Brett Whiteley made images of apes and monkeys. He found much in their character and physiognomy to identify with.
Mirka Mora survived the second world war to carve out a unique place for herself in the Australian art world. Over six decades, her creativity was legendary.
Charles Blackman forged an urbanised image of Australia that for most, was more familiar than the mythic landscapes of Sidney Nolan or Arthur Boyd. Yet though familiar, it remains uncomfortable.
As a bushranger in the Kelly gang, Steve Hart took to dressing as a woman and riding side-saddle to avoid detection. Sidney Nolan’s painting captures Hart’s adolescent cockiness, bravery, and foolhardy bluster.
McNaughton’s works elicit giddy mockery from the left and effusive love from the right. Why do they resonate so strongly?
Disease and disorders can affect how we see. Can the images in painted artworks tell us something about the state of an artist’s vision?
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Honorary (Senior Fellow) School of Culture and Communication University of Melbourne. Editor in Chief, Design and Art of Australia Online, The University of Melbourne
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Honorary Professor, Edith Cowan University
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Adjunct Professor of Art History, Australian National University
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Associate Professor in History of Art, University of Nottingham
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Ruth Coulter Heede Professor of Art History, Case Western Reserve University
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Personal Chair of Nineteenth-Century Art, History of Art, The University of Edinburgh
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Professor in Art History, University of Sydney
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Professor, The University of Melbourne
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Honorary fellow of the Grimwade Centre for Cultural Materials Conservation, The University of Melbourne
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Master of Art in Gallery and Museum Management Program Director, Western Colorado University
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Professor of Computer Science and Director of the Art & AI Lab, Rutgers University
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Lecturer in MA Creative Media Practice and BA(Hons) New Media Art, University of the West of Scotland
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Senior Lecturer in Economics, RMIT University
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Professor of Clinical Ophthalmology & Eye Health, Central Clinical School, Save Sight Institute, University of Sydney
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Artist, Curator, Producer, RMIT University
