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Modern Woman: Daughters & Lovers Exhibition
‘Modern Woman: Daughters and Lovers 1850 — 1918 | Drawings from the Musée d’Orsay, Paris’, an exhibition of drawings from the Musée d’Orsay, Paris, by renowned French artists of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, will be showing exclusively at the Queensland Art Gallery.
It celebrates the changing roles of women during the Belle Époque as depicted by leading artists of the time such as Edgar Degas, Pierre—Auguste Renoir, Edouard Vuillard, Edouard Manet, Camille Pissarro, Pierre Bonnard, Auguste Rodin, Berthe Morisot and Jean François Millet. These artists increasingly abandoned idealised representations of the female figure, and turned to women from a diverse range of socioeconomic backgrounds, depicting them in their family lives and domestic activities, as well as in the public realm as spectators, performers and workers.
Queensland Art Gallery Director Tony Ellwood said the exhibitions would explore several key themes.
“Through the medium of drawing, Modern Woman: Daughters and Loverscaptures the roles women assumed in the changing social and political landscape of Europe in the late-19th century,” Mr Ellwood said.
“Abandoning idealised representations of women as saints and goddesses, artists in this period increasingly turned to ‘real’ women as their subjects, depicting them with an increasing level of individuality.
“The exhibition captures women from a diverse range of socio-economic backgrounds, in the private realm, engaged in family life and domestic activity, as well as in the public realm, as spectators, performers, and workers.
“At GoMA, Contemporary Australia: Women, the second in the Gallery’s series of contemporary Australian art exhibitions and curated by Queensland Art Gallery staff, will showcase new and recent work by emerging, established and senior female Indigenous and non-Indigenous artists from around Australia.
“It will explore several key themes: the performance of femininity; the place of personal and intimate spheres – such as sexuality, the body, motherhood and ageing – in work by women; the return to everyday materials; and the ways some artists are ‘redressing the canon’ of painting.”
Through these fascinating drawings, we see French society undergoing radical transformation.
Modern Woman: Daughters and Lovers Exhibition
Venue: QAG
Dates: 24/03/12–24/06/12
Official Site: www.qag.qld.gov.au
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