The Naked and the Nude
The naked body in art will be celebrated at the Art Gallery of Ballarat this Spring.
Curator Elizabeth Cross has put together The Naked and the Nude, an exhibition which takes the viewer on a fresh and challenging journey of the nude in art, both male and female, throughout the 19th, 20th and into the 21st Centuries.
The exhibition, which opens on 13 September, provides a serious exploration of the way in which the naked body has been portrayed in Australian art and the changing meanings associated with nudity.
Many of the works are from the Art Gallery of Ballarat s rich collection together with significant loans from other public and private collections.
Elizabeth Cross says she hopes visitors will find the exhibition: Serious and credible, with a dangerous edge: one which presents a serious exploration of culture, but with a suggestion of breaking taboos against nudity, challenging inhibitions and with, perhaps, an underlying erotic appeal.
The exhibition will comprise over 100 items, including the sentimental Hestitation by William Bartlett, Norman Lindsay s Benediction and the frankly erotic Ring Gymnast of Eugene Jansen.
Christianity s ambivalent attitude to the naked body will be exemplified in Arthur Boyd s Expulsion while works depicting the first encounters by Europeans with both Islanders and Australian Aborigines explore the Enlightenment concept of the Noble Savage.
A range of public talks and walks through the exhibition, as well as an education program for VCE students will be run during the show.
The Naked and the Nude is on at the Art Gallery of Ballarat from 13 September mid.
December 2008; 9am - 5pm daily.
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