Art History - s2 week 4 - 29/07/2019

Australian Post-Colonial Art: Landscape

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGEncrE_Pk0

From the following list of artists, choose 3 whose landscape paintings relate to your work or just interest you personally.  Your interest might be in their brushwork, colour palette, subject, style, etc.

Research some biographical information and choose two paintings per artist (6 total) to put up on your blog with annotations.

Be prepared to share your blog entry in class next week

                           Charles Conder (c.1880)  Herrick’s Blossoms    Oil on cardboard.  13x24cm

"Charles Conder was one of the key founders of the Heidelberg school of Australian Impressionism with Tom Roberts, Frederick McCubbin and Arthur Streeton.

Sent to Australia in 1884 by his father to train as a surveyor, Conder worked for the Lands Department and as a lithographic apprentice for the Sydney Illustrated News, the graphic work of which helped him to develop an unparalleled eye for human incident. He attended Art Society School drawing classes with Julian Ashton and studied painting under AJ Daplyn, an adherent of plein-airism. Conder befriended Tom Roberts during the latter’s visit to Sydney in 1887, painting with him at Coogee during Easter 1888. Recently returned from London and the Royal Academy Schools, Roberts was inspired by James McNeill Whistler and colour experiments, influencing Conder to employ a suggestive rather than literal approach to painting." 

                                                                    

John Wolseley:  

I quite like John Wolseley's work as it doesn't relate to my work I am doing in BVA203 or BVA214 it relates to my own works I do at home as I like to journal and scrap book mixing medias together and creating some form of art piece. 

I also like this mix media works, especially the water colour work.  

"My work over the last thirty years has been a search to discover how we dwell and move within landscape. I have lived and worked all over the continent from the mountains of Tasmania to the floodplains of Arnhem land.  I see myself as a hybrid mix of artist and scientist; one who tries to relate the minutiae of the natural world - leaf, feather and beetle wing - to the abstract dimensions of the earth's dynamic systems.  Using techniques of watercolour, collage, frottage, nature printing and other methods of direct physical or kinetic contact I am finding ways of collaborating with the actual plants, birds, trees, rocks and earth of a particular place.

I like to think that the large works on paper on which I assemble these different drawing methods represent a kind of inventory or document about the state of the earth.  I want to reveal both the energy and beauty of it, as well as show its condition of critical even terminal change.  My interest is to paint the processes and energy field of the living systems of this land - flocks of birds, or water plants in swamps, or the movement of sand dunes or the ways in which trees regenerate after fire. " (J. Wolseley .N.D.) 

Telopea and Isopogon in Mist, Blue Mountains New South Wales 1995-96

https://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/exhibition/john-wolseley/