NGV Learn Art Appreciation before your Europe visit + High Tea
Guests planning on visiting Europe will benefit from an immersive learning experience about the main Western art movements featured in NGV, including Byzantine, Renaissance, Mannerism, Baroque, Rococo, Romanticism, Realism, and Impressionism. They will also admire paintings by world-renowned artists such as Titian, Rembrandt, François Boucher, El Greco, Jan Brueghel, Tiepolo, Monet, Pissarro, Dali, and Picasso. The tour includes learning about leading painters to see in Europe.
At the end of the tour, you will go away not only having experienced an exhilarating and fulfilling day at NGV, in an unhurried fashion with delicious food; but also with a new eye for art, with specific skills to fuel a new passion in you to visit, see, analyse and appreciate art wherever you travel in the future. You will experience the thrill of being able to identify the art genre and make an educated guess about who the painter might be when you see other Western historical paintings in the future.
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NGV Learn Art Appreciation before your Europe visit + High Tea
What's included in NGV Learn Art Appreciation before your Europe visit + High Tea
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National Gallery of VictoriaPass-by Only
Planning to visit the fabulous NGV in Melbourne with its world-class paintings? If so, make it a full day for a private tour with high tea for yourself and one friend/partner This experience is designed for those who enjoy looking at paintings but want to deepen their appreciation without requiring to become art experts. Your guide will show and explain to you about their favorite Western Art paintings at NGV, providing insights about the artists, the historical context, and tips on how to analyse and appreciate paintings. The tour starts at 10 am, with a break for a superb pre-booked high tea lunch at the NGV (valued at $75) before continuing on for an afternoon of art discovery. By the end of the experience, you will have enhanced art appreciation skills that will allow you to analyse and enjoy art better. You will receive a laminated checklist to keep on how to analyse art, which you will use during our experience and in the future when you visit art galleries anywhere.
Inclusions
- A scrumptous High Tea lunch at NGV worth $75 that includes an assortment of freshly-cut sandwiches, savouries, cakes, scones and tea. Please advise venue when ordering about any dietary restrictions.
- A reusable laminated guide sheet of how to view / analyse paintings, yours to keep.
- Alcoholic Beverages
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
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Pickup and Dropoff
You will make your own way to the meeting points
Meeting / End Points
- Meet outside the main entrance of NGV, directly in front of the glass wall with water flowing down at the entrance. Your guide will be carrying a green shoulder bag.
