Sinclair Tour and Travel 5494 5083 Matisse and Picasso National Gallery Canberra Departs Sat 28Th March 2020 3 Days $1,550 Pp Twin Share Single $175
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Sinclair Tour and Travel 5494 5083 Matisse and Picasso National Gallery Canberra Departs Sat 28th March 2020 3 days $1,550 pp twin share Single $175 TOUR INCLUSIONS Door to door transfers Return flights Brisbane/Canberra 2 dinners, 2 breakfasts 2 nights Alpha Tuggeranong Entry to Australian War Memorial Entry to National Museum Entry to National Gallery Matisse & Picasso Exhibition Telstra Tower Day One Saturday 28th March After pick up from your door as usual, you’ll be transferred to Brisbane airport for your flight to Canberra. From here you’ll enjoy lunch at War Memorial café, a great place for lunch. Enjoy a visit to the War Memorial then a drive around town before checking in at our Hotel. Dinner at the club attached to our Hotel tonight. (D) Alpha Hotel Canberra (02) 6293 3666 (D) Day Two. Sunday 29th March After a delicious breakfast at our Hotel, you’ll enjoy a visit to the Old Bus Depot markets for some retail therapy. Lovers of fine hand crafted wares, clothing collectors, food fanatics and jewelry junkies are just a few of the people who make their way to Canberra’s famous Old Bus Depot Markets every Sunday. In a fabulous old industrial building, you will experience the endless colour, tastes, sounds and atmosphere that is “Canberra’s Sunday Best”. Then it’s on to the National Gallery of Australia, one of the largest art museums in Australia, holding more than 166,000 works of art. Located in Canberra in the Australian Capital Territory, it was established in 1967 by the Australian government as a national public art museum. Matisse & Picasso is the first exhibition in Australia to tell the story of the artistic relationship between two of Europe’s greatest twentieth-century artists. The relationship of Matisse and Picasso is one of the most important Henri Matisse (1869–1954) and Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) met in 1906 and for more than half a century followed each other’s creative developments and achievements. The sustained rivalry between them was not only key to their individual success, it also changed the course of 20th century Western European art. This exhibition brings together masterpieces from collections across the world and includes paintings that will be on display in Australia for the first time. At your leisure, you may like to wander to the National Portrait Gallery close by. The National Portrait Gallery's growing collection consists of representations of individuals who have influenced or contributed to the shaping of Australia as a nation and a society. Lunch at your own expense at either of the Galleries. Then we’ll take you to the Telstra Tower for some awesome views over this magnificent city. Dinner at our Hotel tonight. (B)(D) Alpha Canberra (02) 6293 3666 Day Three. Monday 30th March. After another scrumptious breakfast at our Hotel, we’ll enjoy a visit to the National Museum. The National Museum of Australia explores the land, nation and people of Australia focusing on Indigenous histories and cultures, European settlement and our interaction with the environment. Then it’s off to the airport for your return flight to Brisbane. Here a representative of Sinclair Tour and Travel will meet you at the luggage carousel and take you back home. We do hope you enjoyed your tour with Sinclair Tour and Travel. Please tell your friends. That’s how our business grows. We look forward to travelling with you again really soon. (B) INCLUDED IN TOUR ❖ Door to door airport transfers. ❖ Return Air travel from Brisbane to Canberra. ❖ Motel accommodation on a twin share basis. ❖ Breakfast (B), Lunch (L) and Dinner (D) as indicated. ❖ All entries as listed. ❖ Name badge and luggage labels. 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MORE NOTES ON THE ARTISTS At the outset, Matisse and Picasso’s styles were poles apart. First visiting Paris in 1900 and settling there four years later, Spanish-born Picasso began exploring novel territory that would lead him to Cubism. In this way, he could confront the older French master – renowned leader of the Fauves, or ‘wild beasts’ – whose creativity he found enticing but disturbing, and to whom he had first been introduced by the writer Gertrude Stein. Picasso became increasingly dissatisfied with the self-imposed limits of this new visual language – the tiny brushstrokes, the static forms, the limited palette. He began to appreciate Matisse’s eye for brilliant colour and texture, his method of blending forms with their surrounds to impart a flat, decorative quality, and his ability to infuse his canvases with a sense of movement. Significantly, both men felt the need to confront the challenging legacy of Paul Cézanne (1839– 1906) in order to develop and thrive as artists. Picasso admired the deformations and voluminous space of Cézanne’s art, while Matisse celebrated Cézanne’s constructions of colour and his merging of motif and background. They also drew inspiration from the paintings and woodcuts of Paul Gauguin (1849–1903). As the century progressed, Picasso became a colossus of modern art. Many younger artists, at first inspired by Matisse and the other Fauvists, instead began to take their cues from his work. For much of his career Picasso was perceived as an immovable object, blocking the way forward for other artists, who could only follow in his wake. The exception to this was Matisse. No one was more watchful of Picasso’s art than Matisse, and vice versa. Sometimes they ‘answered’ each other immediately, on other occasions it took years for artistic themes, planted like seeds, to burst forth in a flurry of activity. Each felt the need to acknowledge and absorb the other’s work. After Matisse’s death in 1954, Picasso’s art changed again as he mourned the loss of a figure who had held such sway over his entire career. Matisse & Picasso features more than 60 paintings and sculptures drawn from prestigious public and private collections internationally and in Australia. The exhibition also includes examples of the Gallery’s rich holdings of drawings, prints, illustrated books and costumes by Matisse and Picasso. Together, they reveal how and why these two giants of modern art mined each other’s work in order to enhance their own. .