Gallery

The Queensland Art Gallery

The Queensland Art Gallery which was earlier called Queensland Cultural Centre is situated near Brisbane River in South Bank. The philosophy behind the gallery is connecting people and arts. The Queensland Art gallery is symbol of cultural and artistic development and has various qualities and many attractions that encourage people for visiting many collections. They opened the gallery during the year 1985. Earlier to History, the gallery housed a sequence of temporary premises and did not have any permanent home till they launched the present building in South Bank of Brisbane in the year 1982.

The Queensland Art Gallery was regarded as the most famous building during its time and it used some of the best materials and techniques which were available with economic limits of project.  It was the 1^st building that was built in South Side of adjacent river for new Victoria Bridge and was established as benchmark scale with many future buildings. Read the rest of this entry »

National Gallery of Art

The National Gallery of Art is a famous art museum situated in National Mall, in Washington D.C. It was open free of cost to public and the museum got established during the year 1937 for people of US by joint decision of United States Congress and Andrew w. Mellon who donated the funds of construction and art collection. Additionally the core collection has many art works donated by Ailsa Mellon, Paul Mellon, Samuel Henry kress, Lessing J. Rosenwald, Peter Arrel Brown. The collection of gallery has drawings, paintings, photographs, medals, sculpture, decorative arts and development of Western Arts from recent ages to present which include famous painting of Leonarda da Vinci in Americas and famous mobile that was created by Alexander Calder.

The campus of the Gallery includes the famous neoclassical west building which was created by John Russell pope that was linked underground with modern east building which was created by I.M Pei, with a sculpture of garden of 6.1 acres. The art gallery conducts temporary special exhibitions traversing the world and the history of art. The museum is composed of 2 buildings, the East Building (1978) and the West Building (1941) which is linked together by very good underground passage. The West Building contains pink Tennessee marble and was designed by John Russell Pope, a famous architect in the year 1937. Read the rest of this entry »