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Grace Cossington Smith - Australia's Culture PortalGrace Cossington Smith (1892-1984) was a leading Sydney painter in the Australian modernist movement, and her painting The Sock Knitter (1915) is generally regarded as Australia's first modernist work. Grace Cossington Smith, The Bridge in-Curve, c.1930, ...
Barbara Tucker, Albert Tucker, Arthur Boyd and Sidney Nolan, Hurstbridge, c. The Angry Penguin painters are considered to be the major figures of a modernist movement in Australian art, based in Melbourne, which has determined and shaped Australian conte...
Winner of the 2008 Archibald Prize. Image courtesy of the Art Gallery of New South Wales. An exhibition of the paintings shortlisted for judging, in conjunction with those shortlisted for the Wynne Prize and the Sulman Prize, is held at the Art Gallery o...
Sydney Harbour Bridge at sunset. The Sydney Harbour Bridge is one of Australia's most well known and photographed landmarks. It is the world's largest (but not the longest) steel arch bridge with the top of the bridge standing 134 metres above the harbo...
Russell Drysdale, Picture of Donald Friend, 1948. Hill End, a gold-rush town, 85km north of Bathurst in central New South Wales (NSW) is a sacred site in both NSW and also Australian art history. These artists include: John Olsen, Margaret Olley, Jeffre...
The art of Margaret Olley is the art of deliberate choices. Olley's art teacher at Somerville House persuaded Olley's parents to send Margaret to art school. Margaret Olley is represented at the National Gallery of Australia, the Art Gallery of NSW, the...
Margaret Preston was an Australian painter and printmaker who was a leading example of early Australian modernism. Her essays and articles were published in Australian journals including Art in Australia , Undergrowth, Jindyworobak Review and Australia N...
By the 1930s, modern style flourished in retail, entertainment, pubs, milk bars, modern swimming pools and fashion. Australia’s reception to modernism is a complex story of spasmodic cultural transformation led by avant-garde experiments and the cr...
John Glover (1767-1849), Australian landscape with cattle: the artist's property Patterdale , c. Image courtesy of the National Library of Australia: an2253188. The Heidelberg School was the first significant art movement in Australia. ...
Employing dream imagery, poetry and precarious juxtapositions, Australian artists in the 1930s and early 1940s responded to European surrealists and were part of an international surrealist movement - 'in all its clarity'. Many of Australia's best known a...
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Newcastle Region Art Gallery - Grace Cossington Smith: Paper Mosaics (website Newcastle Region Art Gallery )Look at the way the Cossington Smith has applied the paint. Does your Paper Mosaic look like a landscape? Cardboard or paper, coloured paper, fabric, buttons, coloured pens, glue & scissors....
Kate Fagan (NSW) is a writer, editor and musician living in Sydney. Kate is also an established musician and songwriter who has performed and recorded all over Australia and in the UK. Circa 1927: Realising Belief was written by Kate Fagan in response to...
Cossington Smith's experiments in Modernism were conducted over a lifetime spent painting in the same house in the Sydney suburb of Turramurra. In Trees the familiarity of the subject matter, the artist's own garden, liberates Cossington Smith to create t...
Grace Cossington Smith (1892-1984) was a leading Sydney painter in the Australian modernist movement, and her painting The Sock Knitter (1915) is generally regarded as Australia's first modernist work. Jennifer Phipps, curator of Australian Art (Late Mode...
Creative Generation Excellence Awards in Visual Art and Design Nurreegoo: The Art and Life of Ron Hurley 1946,Äì2002 The Cypress and the Crow: 50 Years of Iranian Animation...
Creative Generation Excellence Awards in Visual Art and Design Nurreegoo: The Art and Life of Ron Hurley 1946,Äì2002 The Cypress and the Crow: 50 Years of Iranian Animation...
Creative Generation Excellence Awards in Visual Art and Design Nurreegoo: The Art and Life of Ron Hurley 1946,Äì2002 The Cypress and the Crow: 50 Years of Iranian Animation...
Creative Generation Excellence Awards in Visual Art and Design Nurreegoo: The Art and Life of Ron Hurley 1946,Äì2002 The Cypress and the Crow: 50 Years of Iranian Animation...
Creative Generation Excellence Awards in Visual Art and Design Nurreegoo: The Art and Life of Ron Hurley 1946,Äì2002 The Cypress and the Crow: 50 Years of Iranian Animation...
Creative Generation Excellence Awards in Visual Art and Design Nurreegoo: The Art and Life of Ron Hurley 1946,Äì2002 The Cypress and the Crow: 50 Years of Iranian Animation...
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