Summer in Sydney often makes you want to cool down by getting nudie so get inspired in a classy way by THE art exhibition of the season, now on at the Art Gallery of New South Wales.
Auguste Rodin The kiss 1901–04 Tate: Purchased with assistance from the Art Fund and public contributions 1953 image © Tate, London 2016
Nude: art from the Tate collection tells the story of the nude through more than 100 powerful artworks including the sensational (literally: it caused a sensation in its day for being so scandalously erotic) sculpture, ‘The Kiss’ by Auguste Rodin.
The nude is one of art’s oldest subjects and the evolution of the nude in Western art is a story of beauty and desire, eroticism and tenderness as well as scandal. In a partnership between Tate, London and the Art Gallery of New South Wales, the exhibition brings paintings, sculptures, photographs and prints by renowned artists such as Pablo Picasso, Lucian Freud, Henri Matisse and Louise Bourgeois to Sydney this summer.
Each artist in the exhibition offers a different way of looking at the naked human body. Some look tenderly; some idealise it; some look anxiously or politically. Together they show how the nude in art has persisted yet changed, shifting shape and acquiring new meanings in the hands of successive generations, from the history paintings of the 19th century to the artist-provocateurs of our time.
Many of the works, loaned from the distinguished collection of Tate, London will be exhibited in Australia for the first time – including one of the world’s most iconic expressions of erotic love (and a favourite of mine), Rodin’s marble sculpture, The kiss (1904). Other renowned works include Picasso’s Nude woman in a red armchair (1932) and Bonnard’s The bath (1925).
This is truly a stunning collection of works so keep cool and get your ticket now!
Pablo Picasso ‘Nude woman in a red armchair’1932 oil paint on canvas 129.9 x 97.2 cm Tate: Purchased 1953 © Succession Picasso image © Tate, London 2016
WHAT: Nude: art from the Tate collection
WHEN: 5 November 2016 – 5 February 2017
WHERE: Art Gallery of NSW, Art Gallery Rd, The Domain, Sydney
COST: $24 adult
$21 concession
$18 member
$62 family (2 adults + up to 3 children)
$14 child (12-17 years)
Free for children under 12
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