Cézanne to Giacometti: highlights from Museum Berggruen / Neue Nationalgalerie

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"Cézanne to Giacometti: Highlights from Museum Berggruen / Neue Nationalgalerie presents a vivid journey through the dynamic changes in European and Australian art in the twentieth century. It is a story of artists who strove to displace tradition and see the world from new perspectives during the development of European and Australian Modernism. The conversation traverses the seismic artistic revolutions in perspective, colour, subject and materials that occurred over a 100-year period in Europe and Australia. Museum Berggruen, part of Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin, is one of the most exceptional modernist collections in the world, with masterpieces by Picasso, Klee, Braque, Cézanne, Matisse and Giacometti. These artists not only shaped modernism in Europe but their work resonated across continents, influencing generations of creators worldwide, including Australia, as can be seen with the rich collection from The National Gallery of Australia. By putting these two collections in dialogue, we can illuminate the electrifying way in which ideas, techniques and people moved across distance and borders. Beginning with Paul Cézanne's groundbreaking shattering of linear perspective, through to the early Cubism of Braque and Picasso, Matisse's bold reconsideration of colour, to other artistic movements like Bauhaus, Surrealism and beyond. Artists from the National Gallery's collection extend this tree of influences outwards, with Cézanne's influence on Roland Wakelin, Russell Drysdale, Ian Fairweather, Grace Cossington Smith, George Bell, Lina Bryans and John Passmore; Cubism's inspiration on Dorrit Black, Grace Crowley, Anne Dangar, Roy de Maistre, Paul Haefliger and Eric Wilson and many more fascinating interconnections across continents for this spectacular genealogy of influence. Like the artists within this network, this dynamic transnational perspective will change the way you view Modernism" -- Provided by publisher.

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Message from the Minister for the Arts -- Message from the ACT Chief Minister -- Forewords -- My Father Heinz Berggruen / Olivier Berggruen -- A genealogy of influence / Deirdre Cannon, David Greenhalgh, Natalie Zimmer -- The translation of perception: An introduction -- To start again: Paul Cézanne's method -- In form and colour: Cézanne's arrival in Australia -- A cubist in dialogue: Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso -- Planar translations: Cubism and its echoes in Australia -- Spaces for the mind: Henri Matisse -- Lyric figures: Matisse and Australian modern art -- Living presence and the prevailing vision: Alberto Giacometti -- Selected works -- List of works -- Contributors -- Supporters -- Acknowledgements.