Ian Potter Center: NGV Australia - A Historical Art Gallery

The Ian Potter Center: NGV Australia is a historical art gallery that displays the ancient history of Australia through a wide collection of European and international art, paintings, prints, photography, and sculptures. It is a legacy of businessman and philanthropist Sir Ian Potter and attracts more than 10 million visitors. The art collection is quite wide in scope as it encompasses various fashions, textiles, and drawings. The site hosts two unique exhibitions that explore Australia's complex colonial past. Visitors can appreciate different people from various cultural regions and have a sense of peace and harmony.

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Introduction
Generally, Ian Potter center: NGV Australia is an art gallery that houses the Australian section of
art collection in the National Gallery Victoria (NGV).It is located at Federation square in
Melbourne while the gallerys works are displayed at the NGV international on the St Kilda
Road. Ian Potter center: NGV Australia is an important site for Australian people and also other
individual visitors from different parts of the world. Based on historical evidence, this particular
site was founded in the year 2002.
The discussion starts by acknowledging the brief history of Ian Potter center: NGV
Australia .Conversely literally share the experiences I had after visiting the museum which
presents beneficial aspects of the Australian society culture and past historical activities.
Finally, key findings and arguments in regard to the Ian Potter center: NGV Australia will be
presented.
Background
The Ian Potter center: NGV Australia is an art museum that is located in Melbourne, Victoria,
Australia. It’s among one of the largest and most visited art museum not only in Australia but
also across the globe. Ian Potter center: NGV Australia is a legacy of businessman and some
works of philanthropist known as the Sir Ian Potter (Ruan, 2013 p.44). It has gone to an
extensive extent of attracting most powerful individuals such presidents and diplomats who visit
the art gallery in order to observe, benefit and share the historical based evidences. The Ian
Potter center: NGV Australia collection has been highly recognized and ranked among one of the
world’s best.
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The Ian Potter center : NGV Australia displays all sorts of art that represent the supreme
Australia. There are more than 20,000 artworks in Ian Potter center: NGV Australia. Some of the
artworks in the Ian Potter center: NGV Australia are; paintings, prints, photography and
sculptures which attracts a lot of people (Wasige, Groen, Smaling, Jetten, 2013 p.70).
Most of the collections at the Ian Potter center: NGV Australia were obtained from various
sources some of which include gifts from different works of art as well as anonymous monetary
donations. The art collection is quite wide in scope as it encompasses European and international
art and paintings, various fashions, gallery, textiles, photography as well as drawings.
My site visit
In my visit at the art, I noticed quite a number of things. The art there is well displayed and of
very high quality. What caught my attention, however, was the Art of the Pacific and beautiful
paintings on the walls. The aim of this site is to appreciate and honor the existing artistic nature,
value and culture of the pacific region (Johnson, Becker, Estrada, Freeman, 2015 p.82). Over the
years is has been widely considered as one of the world’s greatest tradition that is ever evolving
and changing by the society. The art of pacific gallery basically aims towards introducing
viewers and visitors at the art gallery the cultural traditions, spirit and diversity of the amazing
oceanic art. The current display at the Ian Potter center: NGV Australia is very beautiful. It
portrays nothing but just pure culture. The art is quite unique in nature and literally nothing
similar to that has ever been seen before in regard to its authenticity and other quality issues.
Questions
The Ian Potter center: NGV Australia communicates the Australian history in quite a significant
manner. An important part of Australian history that the Ian Potter center: NGV Australia
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communicates is the colonial past of the Australian people. The site hosts two very unique
exhibitions that categorically explore the Australia’s complex colonial past. This art was
designed and it is believed to have emerged during such a time when Australia was struggling
from its colonial oppressors (Tseng &Wu, 2013 p.47).This art is called the colony Australia;
1770-1861. This art is very significant to the Australian people as it brings together a collection
of art that portrayed the actual way of life of the Australian people during their colonial era.
As seen the Ian Potter center: NGV Australia welcomes more than 10 million visitors is
significant to communicate new upcoming acquisitions thus contributing to the enhancement of
the visitor’s ability to fulfill their travelling and visiting desires.
It offers the visitors a totally new experience through the utilization of various existing outlets
like cafes. It communicates the understanding and appreciation of Australian diet from eating
various types of food in the region.
It also indicates societal leadership and reconceptualization
The Ian Potter center: NGV Australia is deemed to have branding aspects in a competitive
landscape. This enables the visitors to appreciate the art of doing trade and business activities. It
comprises of comprehensive and accountable business stakeholders, government agencies, board
of directors and the overall public domain.
It also gives visitors a message of traditional functional roles. These involves various operations
carried out in the museum of traditional nature and the collection of object, preservation and
display of the art (Carbonell, 2012 p.97).
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The Ian Potter center: NGV Australia is also important as it provides an overview of the merits
of leadership, society service, welfare activities such environment preservation. It conveys a
message of appreciating the research studies, education and also the importance of enjoyment.
The visitors are able to appreciate different people from various cultural regions. It also enables
them appreciate ethnicity, races, religions and have a sense of peace and passing the message of
harmony(Carbonell, 2012 p.197).This is based from the frequent interactions and relationships
that people acquire through visiting and interaction.
Its orientation places are also of high strategic significance to visitors regarding brand of distinct
items found in the region. Ian Potter center: NGV Australia is quite significant to the Australian
people as it reminds them of the fallen soldiers and heroes’ .It was basically erected with main
purpose of showing gratitude and respect for those who sacrificed their lives to fight for peace in
Australia. It’s considered as an honor to art and exchange of culture. It makes visitors appreciate
the art of data collection and use of evidence based artefacts (Klein man &Lin, 2013 p.78).It also
changes their altitudes regarding art
Conclusion
Based on the visit at the Ian Potter center: NGV Australia, there are a number of things that are
evident. First and foremost, it is very clear that this is a place that displays the ancient Australian
history (MacKenzie, 2017 p.67).Various forms of art are present at the Ian Potter center: NGV
Australia both European and International works of art portraying various cultures of different
communities in Australia
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