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Art Appreciation 2023

Golden threads: tracing connections between artists, collections and cultures

Term one

  • Prospero Fontana, his daughter Lavinia, and the Bolognese Renaissance – Dr John Gagné

  • To and from Vincent van Gogh’s Head of a Peasant – Dr Vincent Alessi

  • Braving Time: getting to the bottom of queer art – Richard Perram OAM

  • Glow of the city: the nocturnal world of Martin Lewis – Claudia Chan Shaw

  • Bringing it home: domestic devotions in Renaissance Italy – Dr Louise Marshall

  • Threading through golden summers: Australian impressionism at the Art Gallery – Jane Clark

  • Sex and the city: Mars, the Vestal Virgin, and the founding of Rome – Professor Alastair Blanshard

  • Buddhas future, Buddhas past: our Chinese century foretold? – Dr Iain Shearer

  • Louise Hersent and the women artists of 19th-century Paris – Dr Anne Gerard-Austin

  • Squinting at the trees: Buvelot and the eucalypt – Alisa Bunbury

  • Transformations: the many heads of Avalokiteshvara – Dr Alex McKay

  • Whatever happened to Cézanne? – Dr David R Marshall

Term two

  • Grace Cossington Smith: a radiant modernism – Denise Mimmocchi

  • Tracing the golden threads of philanthropy: from Lambert to Matisse – Dr Alison Inglis

  • A reflection on the effects of the moon, sea and air in pictures and gardens – Dr Olivia Meehan

  • Parallel Visions: German expressionism and the Angry Penguins – Dr Jacqueline Strecker

  • The great arch: Jessie Traill’s etchings of modernity – Anne Ryan

  • Flowers in sunlight: Adrian Feint’s queer cornucopia – Peter McNeil

  • Colour, form and line: Dorrit Black, modernist pioneer – Lorraine Kypiotis

  • Ian Fairweather and China – Dr Morris Low

  • Sonnets and symphonies of form - the inimitable Robert Klippel – Geoffrey Edwards

  • Edna Everage’s eye for Australian fashion – Roger Leong

  • Godfrey Miller’s Nude and the moon: art and architecture – Dr Peter Kohane

  • John Olsen’s Five Bells: I am in the sea-harbour and the sea-harbour is in me – Steven Alderton

Term three

  • The Tang horse: a symbol of prestige and power – Jackie Menzies OAM

  • Love and frenzy: Delacroix's Angelica and the wounded Medoro – Professor Mark Ledbury

  • Maria's pinks: women, still life, and natural history in early modern Europe – Professor Anne Dunlop

  • Harriet Hosmer’s Beatrice Cenci: an unlikely feminist icon – Dr Lisa Beaven

  • Seeking clarity on a rainy day; reflections on Charles Condor's 1888 painting – Dr Jeremy Clarke

  • The Brett Whiteley Studio: artist, collection, archive – Beatrice Gralton

  • Gold rush to yellow peril: Australian-Chinese cultural exchange in the 21st century – Dr Jaime Tsai

  • The substance of paint: Ralph Balson's Painting no 9 – Dr Georgina Cole

  • On abstraction; time, space and aesthetics from art to architecture – Professor Anthony Burke

  • Martin Sharp: A life in colour – Joyce Morgan

  • Natural forensics: Janet Laurence’s wunderkammern – Dr Molly Duggins

  • Frank Stella: From Khurasan to Manhattan – Nicholas Chambers