Exemplary Objects: The Australian National Gallery with Robert Hughes
This 1982 ABC production features Robert Hughes looking at the National Gallery and its place in Australian society.
Featured Works of Art
L'Oiseau dans l'espace [Bird in space]
c.1931-36
(Abstract - Still life)
1939
Penelope
1912
Meules, milieu du jour [Haystacks, midday]
1890
"I'll put a girdle round about the earth".
1933
Art & Artists
Referenced
Captain John Piper
1826
Mrs John Piper
1826
Mr Robinson's first interview with Timmy
1840
Woureddy, an Aboriginal chief of Van Diemen's Land
1835
Trucaninny, wife of Woureddy
1836
Ferntree Gully in the Dandenong Ranges
1857
North-east view from the northern top of Mount Kosciusko
1863
View of the granite rocks at Cape Woolamai
c.1872
Mount Arapiles and the Mitre Rock
1863
Mount Fyans woolshed
1869
Weighing the fleece
1921
The fruit seller of Farm Cove
1915
Arrested phrase from Beethoven's Ninth Symphony in red major
1919/35
Study in white
1925
Four panels for a screen: loquat tree, gum and wattle trees, waterfall, picnic in a gully
1929
(Abstract - Still life)
1939
House-roofs and flowers
1935
The red lady
1938
The rabbiter and his family
1938
L'Enlèvement d'Europe [The abduction of Europa]
1929
Crucifixion with donor Jacopo di Bartolomeo [Crocifisso con il donato Jacopo di Bartolomeo]
c.1455
Meules, milieu du jour [Haystacks, midday]
1890
Nymphéas [Waterlilies]
c.1914-17
"I'll put a girdle round about the earth".
1933
Blue poles
1952
1957 # 20
1957
Pre-dawn
1960
25 planes
1958
1952-no.2
1952
Woman V
1952-53
Untitled
1944
Image of modern evil 9
1944
Ned Kelly
1946
The hunter I
1944
Christie and Hectorina MacLennan
1964-65
Monastery
1961
You Yangs landscape II
1963
L'Oiseau dans l'espace [Bird in space]
c.1931-36
L'Oiseau dans l'espace [Bird in space]
c.1931-36
Hill arches
1973
Penelope
1912
Virginia
1970
