Tom Roberts. Painting 1- “holiday sketch at Coogee” Painting 2- “Sheering the Rams” Thomas Roberts was born on the 9th of March 1856 and passed away on the 14th of September 1931. Roberts was a prominent Australian artist and a key member of the Heidelberg School. Roberts was born in England, he migrated with his family to Australia in 1869. Settling in Collingwood (Melbourne, Victoria) he worked as a photographer's assistant through the 1870s while studying art at night under Louis Buvelot and befriending others who were to become prominent artists.
Impact on Australian Life Margret Preston's work has been exhibited more since her death that when she was alive. In 2005, the Margaret Preston Art and Life exhibition was unveiled by the Art Gallery of New South Wales. It was the largest exhibition ever held of Preston's work. ; It included more than 180 original works. She became the first female artist to be commissioned by the Art Gallery of New South Wales to paint a self-portrait.
Terry Smith’s ‘The Divided Meaning of Shearing the Rams’, Ian Burn’s ‘Beating about the Bush’ and Tim Bonyhady’s ‘Contrasting Lights’ are readings on the Australian art movement of the Heidelberg School, which was most prolific in the 1880’s. Australian-ness is one of the key features of the Heidelberg school. Recognised as the first discernible Australian school of art. Often referred to as Australian Impressionism the paintings are often characterized by their impressionist style with sun drenched landscapes and high key tones. The school is renowned for having produced some of the most unequivocally Australian and nationalist works of art in the country.
Max Dupain Bondi 1939 Max Dupain is one of Australia’s most renowned modernist photographers that has ever stepped foot on this planet. He was born in Sydney 1911 and lived there all his life. Dupain received his first camera as a gift in 1924, which spurred his interest in photography. Dupain took various images, all in black and white. Although he died in 1992, his inspiration of photography stuck with him until his death.
EMU DREAMING by Raymond Walters Japanangka Raymond Walters Japanangka was born in Alice Springs on November in 1975.His country is Yeulumu (Mt Allen), Boundary Bore (Utopia). Raymond was influenced by art from an early age and his talents were nurtured by the artistic abilities of his extended family members. In his artworks he looks to share the origin of his inheritance, his cultural knowledge passed down through generations, the story of his life and his hopes for the future of his people. Whilst Raymond has painted this particular artwork many times, using different colours and sizes, each one depicts the feathers of the front breast of an adult Emu. This particular piece uses a variation of bright colours to create texture and power to the image of the Emu feathers.
Phar Lap Comment on the narrative technique employed by the director in the opening sequence and its impact? The film Phar Lap directed by Simon Wincer begins in California at Menlo Park Perry Stables, where Phar Lap was poisoned at killed on the 17th of April 1932. The importance of Phar Lap’s death showed how much Australia and the world really cared about him, being broadcast on the radio and being the headlines of newspapers. The film then flashes back to the start of Phar Lap life, where he arrived on the wharfs of Sydney, Australia. The technique they used at the start of the film was very good and creative.
Holding her first demonstration in 1974 at age 57, her career spanned 25 years, during which time her work was revealed widely both in Australia and internationally until her death in 1999. Gascoigne’s aim of the artwork is to draw attention to the changing visual effects as one circle. The work and the shifting play of light on the natural material. The work has a development and stable, achieved through a life time of looking at the landscape. The audience created for the artwork ‘Piece to Walk Around’ refers directly to the expense of moving through the Australian landscape.
Astonish Me Graeme Murphy is Australia's greatest and most productive choreographer, has been Artistic Director of the Sydney Dance Company since 1976. He was born in 1950 in Melbourne in but spent much of his childhood in Tasmania. His parents were primary school teachers at Graeme’s local primary where he attended also. Although it was ‘unusual’ for boy’s to dance, his parents knew that Graeme liked the lime light since the early years of school. There were a few years between Graeme wanting to dance and being able to dance.
Yawkyawk The artwork Yawkyawk was painted by Indigenous artist Jimmy Njiminjuma. Jimmy Njiminjuma was born in the Arnhem region. Jimmy Njiminjuma was born in 1947 and unfortunately died in 2004. The place of origin is Mumeka, Central Arnhem land, Northern territory, Australia. This painting was finished in 2000.
Luke Bubb For my studio arts assignment, on comparing varied artists from different periods and from different styles I had to choose two different people to write about. They were Luke Bubb, an up and coming photographer on the world scene who was born in Cape Town South Africa but moved to New Zealand in his early teens, and Max Dupain a well known and very famous photographer from the first half of this century who inspired many Australian and international people to become photographers. Max Dupain was born 22nd April 1911, after a fairly normal young childhood he suddenly met the camera at the age of 13 and became enthralled with the mechanics of such a device, it was not however until 4 years later that he later joined the Photographic