Gallery

Review National Gallery of Victoria

The National Gallery of Victoria is a famous museum and art gallery located in Melbourne, Australia. The museum was actually founded in the year 1861 and is the largest and most ancient art gallery located in Australia. The main gallery is situated in St Kilda road, in Melbourne Arts Precinct in Southbank, with a gallery at Federation Store.

When the time of opening of the gallery, Victoria remained as independent colony for another 10 years but during opening of Victorian Gold rush, it became Australia’s richest part and largest city of Melbourne. There were many wealthy citizens, who gave generous gifts including Alfred Felton, a famous industrialist who made it possible for National Gallery to purchase huge collections of art works from various countries. It presently holds more than 63,000 art works. The National Gallery of Victoria Art School was established in 1867 which is also related with the Gallery. It was actual centre for art training in Australia till the year 1910. The graduates from school started to become one of significant artists of Australia. Read the rest of this entry »

Art Institute of Chicago

The Art Institute of Chicago is a very good fine art museum which is present in Illinois Grant Park in Chicago. It has the finest collection of Post-impressionist and Impressionist art in the permanent collection. There also notable collections of American Art, Old Master works, American and European Decorative arts, Modern Art, Asian Art as well as contemporary art. It is situated in 111, South Michigan Avenue in the Chicago.

The Museum is also associated with School of Art Institute in Chicago and is estimated by President and Director James Cuno. At 1 million Sq.feet, the museum is 2^nd largest in US behind the Metropolitan Art Museum in New York. The collection of art works includes more than five thousand years of human expression from various cultures and traditions around the world. It has an art collection of more than 2, 60,000 works. The art institute also holds work which ranges from Japanese prints to latest updated American Art.

The museum also holds a huge collection of post-impressionist and Impressionist as well as American Paintings. Read the rest of this entry »