Video Introduction To Gauguin Portraits At The National Gallery

The Credit Suisse Exhibition:Gauguin Portraits opened today at the National Gallery in London.  

A lecture introducing the exhibition was streamed alive this morning time together with is directly available on YouTube. Guest curator Cornelia Homburg from the National Gallery of Canada introduces the novel exhibition inwards a video below. It lasts for 48 minutes - which is odd for exhibition videos.

• I'd rattling much RECOMMEND that all those planning to run across the exhibition should stance this video first.
• If yous click inwards the lower correct corner yous tin stance inwards any size yous prefer on the YouTube website.

Reviews of Gauguin Portraits Exhibition

• Gauguin Portraits review, National Gallery: exquisite fine art past times the Harvey Weinstein of the 19th century by Alastair Sooke | The Telegraph - awarded five out of five stars

Usually, when a gallery devotes an exhibition to a unmarried artist, it builds upon a nitty-gritty of telephone substitution industrial plant from its ain holdings. Not this time.

Mounted inwards collaboration alongside the National Gallery of Canada inwards Ottawa, the exhibition contains 56 stunning industrial plant of art, on loan from equally far afield equally Moscow, Los Angeles, together with Tokyo.

• Gauguin Portraits review – a buttoned-up, nervous together with nude-light cop-out of a show past times Jonathan Jones | The Guardian - he awards it three out of five stars.

In a gallery that is elsewhere stuffed alongside naked white women, this exhibition’s avoidance of Gauguin’s unclothed Tahitians feels similar an act of prudery – together with fifty-fifty censorship

• Gauguin Portraits Review - It's all most the artist | The Times 
• Gauguin Portraits Review | Time Out - iv out of five stars
• Gauguin Portraits review: Sublime color inwards these beauties from the beast | Evening Standard

Gauguin would accept got curt shrift inwards our times, only no matter: the industrial plant here, early on to late, are unsettling, foreign together with beautiful. This exhibition doesn’t pretend he was a adept man; it makes the example for a nifty artist.

The adjacent 2 reviews relate to the exhibition - of the same exhibition - at the National Gallery of Art inwards Ottawa, Canada (hence the curator introducing the exhibition inwards the video)

• Gauguin: Portraits National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa past times Apollo Magazine
• For Gauguin, portraits bring out to a greater extent than most the creative mortal than the model The Art Newspaper - aims to demonstrate how the painter explored his ain identity through his subjects

More most Gauguin Exhibitions

• Record-breaking Gauguin Restrospective opens at Tate Modern - nine years agone this was my review of the major Gauguin exhibition at Tate Modern

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