MonkeYing around: Boxing Day Non-stop Eats

Tuesday, December 26, 2017

Boxing Day Non-stop Eats

Steamed Xiao Long Bao - $5.80

Longevity Char Siew Buns - $6.00

D/F Beancurd Sheet with Shrimp - $6.80

P/F Carrot Cake - $5.80

Custard Bun with Salted Egg - $6.00

Century of Light is a showcase of art from the 19th century, a post-Englightenment era of great innovation and change. It demonstrates the range of painting styles and art movements that developed in Europe during this time. This formative period of modernity has been, and continues to be, influential to the development of art in Southeast Asia and around the world.

NGS - Between Worlds - Raden Saleh & Juan Luna - Gallery C

Wounded Lion by Indonesian painter, Raden Saleh (c.1811-1880)

Oil on Canvas

Oriental Scene - Horsemen attacking animals and fights between animals

Lion Hunt, c.1838

Oil on Canvas

Arab horsemen locked in a fight with two lions, one of which lays defeated on the ground

Javanese Temple in Ruins, c.1860

Oil on Canvas

Collection of Smithsonian American Art Museum

Depicts the 9th century Buddhist Temple of Mendut, located near the monumental Borobudur temple. The temple had only recently been excavated in 1835 after being buried in a mound of earth and ashes from the nearby Merapi volcano.

Self portrait of Juan Luna

Espana y Filipinas (Spain and the Phillipines), c 1884

Oil in Canvas

Luna made several different versions of this allegorical and idealised image of the relationship between Spain and the Phillipines, two of which have been united in this exhibition. They were painted at a time of great change in their colonial relations, as Filipinos were appealing for reforms and Spain declined as a colonial power.

Les Ignores (The Unknown Ones) c.1890-1891

Oil on Canvas

Collection of Biblioteca Museu Victor Balaguer, Vilanova i la Geltru, Spain

Funeral of an unknown and likely poor individual, Realist painting. Realism was a movement that began in France in the mid-1800s and emphasised the ordinary lives of the poor and working classes.

Cleopatra c.1881

Oil on Canvas

This won Luna his first major prize in Europe, a Second Class medal at Spain's 1881 national exhibition, the Exposicion General de Bellas Artes (General Fine Arts Exhibition)

Colours of Impressions, masterpieces from the Musee D'Orsay

Edouard Monet

Detail of Clair de lune sur le port de Boulogne, Moonlight over the Port of Boulogne

Oil on Canvas

c.1869

Considered the father of modern French painting

The brushwork captures the mysterious mood of the port of Boulogne at night, with the black sihouettes of the boats' sails providing the focus for the scene

Claude Monet

Detail of La Pie (The Magpie)

c.1868-1869

He painted over 140 winter landscapes throughout his life, exploring the myriad ways that light reflects off snow. Like other impressionist artists, he used contrasting colours to create the visual effects of changing shadows.

Canvas, Paint Box and Portable easel

nice works by visitors

Colours of Impressionism - Galleries A & B

Paul Cezanne

Detail of Le Golfe de Marseille vu de L'Estaque (The Gulf of Marseilles seen from L'Estaque)

c.1878-1879

Oil on Canvas

Painter was born in Provence. The intense sunlight led him to explore the definition of forms such as houses, roads and trees through light and shadow, depicting them as silhouettes and blocks.