Artist Work Preview

• ETHEL SPOWERS, Merchants, Port Said 1932

  Posted October 16, 2013 in Artist Work Preview by Alison Burns BA (Hons); MA

  

  Ethel Spowers, a painter and printmaker, was a pivotal figure during one of the most iconic and stylistically rich movements in the history of Australian art. 

  
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• ROSALIE GASCOIGNE, Pink on Blue 1982-83

  Posted October 16, 2013 in Artist Work Preview by Marina Bromley BA (Hons)

  

  Rosalie Gascoigne’s work is refreshingly original and unique in the context of Australian art. 

  
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• BRETT WHITELEY, My Armchair 1976

  Posted October 9, 2013 in Artist Work Preview by Ken Wach

  

  In an essential sense this painting has everything of Whiteley. 

  
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• CHARLES BLACKMAN, Schoolgirl and Billboards 1954

  Posted October 8, 2013 in Artist Work Preview by Alison Burns BA (Hons); MA

  

  Charles Blackman came to prominence as a major modernist artist when his now iconic series of schoolgirl paintings was exhibited at the Peter Bray Gallery in Melbourne in May 1953.

  
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• Women Artists

  Posted July 8, 2013 in Artist Work Preview by Tim Abdallah, Head of Art

  

  In Australia women dominated art for a significant period between the world wars.

  
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• Head of Art's Choice | Auguste Rodin

  Posted June 18, 2013 in Artist Work Preview by Tim Abdallah, Head of Art

  

  There is no greater sculptor in the history of art than Auguste Rodin.

  
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• Head of Art’s Choice - Rachel Feinstein

  Posted June 18, 2013 in Artist Work Preview by Tim Abdallah, Head of Art

  

  Sydney will have a taste of the pointy end of International contemporary art this week

  
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• Head of Art’s Choice - June Auction

  Posted June 12, 2013 in Artist Work Preview by TIM ABDALLAH, HEAD OF ART

  

  The appreciation of Jeffrey Smart’s paintings came to me fairly late.

  
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• GRACE COSSINGTON SMITH Wildflowers in Jug

  Posted June 4, 2013 in Artist Work Preview by Marina Bromley

  

  Grace Cossington Smith is widely remembered as one of Australia’s great modernist painters. 

  
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• JEFFREY SMART Holiday

  Posted May 31, 2013 in Artist Work Preview by Associate Professor Ken Wach

  

  Jeffrey Smart’s painting Holiday of 1971 shows the then fifty-year old artist at his artistic best.

  
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• BRETT WHITELEY Study for Autumn - Japanese Autumn

  Posted May 30, 2013 in Artist Work Preview

  

  While his genius and individuality was expressed through an impressive range of media from printmaking to sculpture, it was painting that was the means by which he could truly make sense of the world.

  
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• CHARLES BLACKMAN The Chess Garden

  Posted May 30, 2013 in Artist Work Preview by Alison Burns

  

  The Chess Garden 1984-5 is a significant work from Blackman’s years at Buderim.

  
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• H. SEPTIMUS POWER A Fox Hunt in the Midlands

  Posted May 30, 2013 in Artist Work Preview by David Thomas

  

  Characteristic moments of vigorous riding are expertly rendered, together with magnificent profiles of horses, contrasting with the headlong charge of physical beauty in action.

  
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• IAN FAIRWEATHER Village c1934

  Posted May 30, 2013 in Artist Work Preview by Alison Burns

  

  Ian Fairweather is an enigmatic artist within the rich tradition of modernism that shaped Australian art of the 20th Century.

  
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• JOHN BRACK Double Nude II

  Posted May 30, 2013 in Artist Work Preview by Professor Sasha Grishin

  

  For Brack, the nude, more than in any other theme in his art, presented the most immediate challenge from the grand tradition of art history.

  
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