Gallery

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 »

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 »

New South Wales Art Gallery

The New South Wales Art Gallery is situated in The Domain, in the city of Sydney, in New South Wales, Australia. It was established during the year 1897. It is the 4^th largest gallery in Australia and a significant public gallery in Sydney. Admission is free of cost for general exhibition, which features Asian, European and Australian Art.

During April 1871, there were many public meetings that were convened to establish Academy of Art to promote through art classes, some of fine arts and regular lectures and exhibitions. From 1879 to 1872, the major activity in organization was annual art exhibitions. During the year 1880, the Annual meeting was held in 9^th century and was dissolved during Academy. The name was changed as National Art Gallery of New South Wales in the year 1883. The gallery was initiated by Act of Parliament during the year 1899. The Art gallery Act and Library Act in 1899 offered for general management and control of gallery. In the main entrance, the equestrian statue, Offering of Peace by Gilbert Peace was added during the year 1926.

The display of fine arts in Sydney International Exhibition during the year 1879 to 1880 became as the starting point government collection which was controlled was Royal Art Society of New South Wales. Read the rest of this entry »