During July the NGV is presenting a series of floor talks that will link the permanent collection with the current exhibition Monet’s Garden. Join experts in various fields as they explore the NGV collection, making connections with Monet’s life, work and the Impressionist era. Please note these talks will not take place in the Monet’s Garden exhibition.
Free Entry. Meet at the Information Desk on the ground Floor of NGV International (St Kilda Rd)
Enquiries contact the NGV http://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/whats-on/programs/public-programs/floor-talk-series-the-impressionist-era
Wed 3 Jul, 12.30pm | Art & Music during the Impressionist period
French composers found just as much inspiration in gardens as Monet did. This floor talk explores garden-themed music from France in the late nineteenth century, exploring the works of Monet’s great contemporaries Debussy and Fauré as well as lesser-known masters such as Roger-Ducasse, D’Indy and Bruneau.
Speaker John Weretka, musicologist and art historian
Wed 10 Jul, 12.30pm | Monet & Japan
During the opening decade of the twentieth century both Claude Monet and the NGV were actively collecting Japanese woodblock prints. Join Wayne Crothers in the Japanese gallery to view some of the same ukiyo-e prints that inspired Monet’s revolutionary approach to composition and have been some of the NGV’s most popular artworks since their acquisition in 1909.
Speaker Wayne Crothers, Curator of Asian Art, NGV
Wed 17 Jul, 12.30pm | ‘The spell of Japan was upon them’: Japonisme, Impressionists and the Decorative Arts
Speaker Matthew Martin, Assistant Curator of Antiquities and the Decorative Arts, NGV
Wed 24 Jul, 12.30pm | The Garden in Art
Speaker Laurie Benson, Curator of International Art, NGV
Wed 31 July, 12.30pm | Monet and synaesthesia: installation, immersion and walls of sound
Speaker Max Delany, Senior Curator of Contemporary Art, NGV
