AFTV Cultural PL event: NGV Melbourne Winter Masterpieces

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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 2025: French Impressionism from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, one of the largest and most significant collections of French Impressionism ever to visit Australia.


Claude Monet - Meadow with Poplars

The exhibition charts the trajectory of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism in late nineteenth-century France, highlighting the renowned avant-garde artists who boldly rejected the artistic conventions of their time.

This exhibition, this time in person with a completely different design from 2021( plus a few changes to loans from MFA Boston), presents more than 100 paintings by key figures including Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Edgar Degas, Camille Pissarro, Édouard Manet, Mary Cassatt, Berthe Morisot, Paul Signac and Alfred Sisley. Participants will have the opportunity to experience the hallmarks of Impressionism: distinctive brushwork, vivid use of colour, innovative viewpoints, and depictions of subjects and places dear to the artists.

Through ten thematic sections, French Impressionism will evoke the artistic energy and intellectual dynamism of the period by placing emphasis on the thoughts and observations of the artists themselves in letters, journals and articles to reveal the mutual admiration and personal connections that united the practitioners at the centre of this movement.



Details

Venue The National Gallery of Victoria, 180 St Kilda Road, Melbourne

Date Sunday 15 June

Bookings close Friday 15 May (no late bookings will be possible)

Times

10.45 Registration

11.00 Lecture Bertrand Bourgeois (See below for details of our lecturer)

12.00 - 12.45 Lunch

12.45 Entry to Exhibition

After an introduction in French by Bertrand Bourgeois, lunch is included to allow time for networking with colleagues before visiting the world of Impressionism and beyond.


Bertrand Bourgeois is an Asssociate Professor in French Studies in the School of Languages and Linguistics at the University of Melbourne. He completed his jointly awarded doctorate from the Université de Nice (France) and the University of Western Ontario (Canada). He is a specialist of Nineteenth and Twentieth Century French Literature and Visual Culture. He has published on many French authors and his latest monograph Petits poèmes à voir  deals with the relationship between prose poetry and visual arts from 1848 to 1945. More information is available on Bertrand's academia page.


Payment Details

AFTV Members Government schools | $35.00 

AFTV Members Independent or Catholic schools |  $45.00           

AFTV Life Members or retired | $35.00             

Non AFTV Members | $65.00             

Children (5 - 15 years) | $30.00                       

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Please Note

  • Please check the NGV International website for further information on the range of school programs on offer-introductory talks, workshops and professional learning plus many images of the originals on display.
  • Attendees will be sent a student worksheet generously offered for your use by Sylvain Pereira from Warrnambool College.
  • If you require an invoice for your finance department, please click here to access the AFTV proforma invoice. The purpose of this invoice is for you to fill it out and give to your finance department to make an online payment by credit card. We don't have an EFT facility for payments.


THIS ACTIVITY IS PRESENTED AND SUBSIDISED BY THE AFTV (THROUGH DET FUNDING)

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