The AFTV is pleased to invite AFTV members and guests to an AFTV Cultural / PL Event
at the NGV for the Melbourne Winter Masterpieces exhibition 2023:
The exhibition will feature works spanning the late 19th and first half of the 20th century including 21 works owned by the NGV. After an introduction in French by Dr Ted Gott, Senior Curator of International Art at NGV, lunch is included to allow time for networking with colleagues before visiting the world of Pierre Bonnard.
Pierre
Bonnard (1867-1947), one of the most beloved painters of the 20th century, is celebrated for his use of colour to convey emotion. His close
friend Henri Matisse declared that Bonnard was ‘a great painter, for today and definitely also for the future’.
The Melbourne Winter Masterpieces exhibition designed
by Paris-based
designer India Mahdavi features more than 100 works by Bonnard- paintings, drawings, photographs, folding screens and early cinema to
bring modern France to life with startling beauty and vivid colour. Developed in partnership with the Musée d’Orsay, Paris, the exhibition
is largely drawn from the museum’s impressive holdings alongside significant loans from other collections.
The Nabis, the young artists Pierre Bonnard, Maurice Denis, Édouard Vuillard, Paul Ranson, Paul Sérusier and Félix Vallotton banded
together in the early 1890s and saw themselves as the Prophets of a new art that they envisaged encompassing every sphere of modern life –
interior design, furniture, fans and textiles, stained glass, and commercial illustration and advertising.
During this period, Bonnard also recorded daily life in the streets of Paris and was influenced by his friendship with the pioneering
filmmakers, Auguste and Louis Lumière; he also embraced photography to capture moments of unexpected movement and impromptu composition.
(Films by the Lumière Brothers are screened alongside dynamic urban scenes Bonnard produced during this period.)
As well, Bonnard created both lithographs and paintings of his own domestic life with his wife and model, Marthe de Méligny; his landscape painting, especially of the south of France, linked him with the legacy of French Impressionism, bringing a new intensity of colour to his art.
The NGV has commissioned award-winning Iranian Paris-based designer India Mahdavi to design the exhibition’s scenography. Engaging with both art history and contemporary culture, Mahdavi frames Pierre Bonnard’s works among wall and floor applications, as well as furniture, bringing to life the sumptuous, domestic interior worlds Bonnard became synonymous for complementing the artist’s distinct use of colour and texture, and the wistful domestic intimacy for which his paintings are so renowned.
Image Credit: Pierre Bonnard French 1867–1947 The dining room in the country 1913 oil on canvas 126.8 x 135.3 cm Minneapolis Institute of Arts The John R. Van Derlip Fund
Venue NGV International, 180 St Kilda Road Melbourne 3006
Date Sunday 23 July 2023
Times
10.45am Arrival and registration, North Entrance outside Education Theatre (please be PUNCTUAL as a courtesy to both
speaker and audience)
11.00am - 12.00pm Introduction, Dr Ted Gott, Education Lecture Theatre, Level 1
1.00pm Viewing of the Exhibition (Group entry)
Early Bird rates including lunch: From Wednesday 12 April to Wednesday 21 June
|
AFTV Member Government schools |
$30 |
|
AFTV Member Independent or Catholic schools |
$40 |
|
AFTV Member retired, teachers not working, Life Members /Past Presidents |
$30 |
| AFTV Non-Member | $50 |
| Children | $25 |
Regular rates including lunch: From Thursday 22 June to Sunday 16 July
| AFTV Member Government schools | $35 |
|
AFTV Member Independent or Catholic schools |
$45 |
| AFTV Member retired, teachers not working, Life Members/Past Presidents | $35 |
| AFTV Non-Member | $55 |
| Children | $30 |
Bookings close Friday 16 July 2023
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THIS ACTIVITY IS PRESENTED AND SUBSIDISED BY THE AFTV (THROUGH DET FUNDING)
AN AFTV / BASTILLE DAY FRENCH FESTIVAL INITIATIVE
Applications have closed for the AFTV/Bastille Day French Festival Competition.
Participating schools please click below for instructions for your students.
La Francophonie à travers le monde | An
AFTV/ Forum de la Francophonie Initiative
Applications
for the 'Francophonie à travers le monde' competition have closed.
Participants can click on the link below to follow the instructions for the their students.
Final videos should be submitted by 7 June.
Following the success of 'The Nannies' at the recent Alliance Française French Film Festival, the AFTV is pleased to screen the movie
for senior French students.
Date Wednesday 21 June
Time 10.15 (for a prompt 10.30 start)
Venue Cinema Kino, Collins Street Melbourne
The AFTV is pleased to invite AFTV members and guests to an AFTV Cultural / PL Event at the NGV for the Melbourne Winter Masterpieces exhibition 2023 -
PIERRE BONNARD: designed by India Mahdavi
Venue NGV International, 180 St Kilda Road Melbourne 3006
Date Sunday 23 July
Time 10.45am arrival and registration