Image above: Kandinsky, Impression V (Park), 1911

Summaries and images at
JTArtRave – 2018 Art References
https://jtartrave.wordpress.com/2018-art-references/
Lectures, talks, collections
Summaries, notes, observations, and some key works
Includes The Hidden Language of Art: Symbol and Allusion AGNSW lecture series 2018

31 January – Gardens and pavilions: politics and symbolism in the Mughal landscape
7 February – Aboriginal bark painting: the Macassan connection
14 February – Balancing the (heavenly) books: Giotto’s arena chapel
21 February – Ancient Greece: the invention of the classical orders
28 February – Not just a pretty picture: understanding gesture in Renaissance Madonnas
7 March – Peacemaker, hero, warrior, lover: the many lives of Vishnu
10 March – Kimberley Rock Art: an historic treasure
14 March – Clues, hidden symbolism and early Renaissance art
21 March – Rebirth in Caravaggio’s ‘Conversion of Saint Paul’
28 March – The strange world of Albrecht Dürer
4 April – Secrets of the Sistine: Michelangelo’s triumph and torment
11 April – Geometry and light in San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane – Borromini
16 May – Nicolas Poussin: ‘Peintre Philosophe’
23 May – The concealed iconography of Japanese Christians in the 17th century
30 May – A window on to heaven: optical illusions and allusions in Baroque Rome
6 June – Modern morality in Hogarth and Gainsborough
13 June – ‘Vertu et Patrie’: David, Neoclassicism and the Revolution
20 June – River stories: the art of Australian waters
27 June – Blindness in the enlightenment
4 July – Desire, devotion, longing: symbols of love 1700-1900
25 July – Victorian painting: uncovering forgotten narratives
1 August – Symbolism and the ‘femme fatale’
15 August – Picasso and ‘the unknown masterpiece’
22 August – Sidney Nolan: decoding the embodied landscape
29 August – The iconography of Arthur Boyd
5 September –  Woman as national allegory in modern Indian and Indonesian art
12 September – Seeing desire: Marcel Duchamp’s ‘Étant Donnés’
19 September – Following the line: understanding south-east art practices
26 September – Louise Bourgeois: the subject of pain is the business I am in
3 October  – Dorothea Tanning and surrealism
17 October – Anselm Kiefer: master of myth
24 October – Identity, displacement, loss and redemption: the art of Imants Tillers
31 October – Grayson Perry: truths and beliefs
7 November – Performing pop culture in Australian art
14 November – A present past
21 November The enigma of Velázquez’s ‘Las Meninas