Robyn Stacey: Robyn Stacey is an artist of inspiration to my body of work as I admire her images and her approach to still life photography. Stacey is one of Australia’s most acclaimed photographers, producing images since the mid 1980’s. Based in Sydney, she draws on her cultural background to influence her works and to not only reveal her own fascination with still life tradition, but also speak about the Australian notion of home and what it means to our national psyche. A series of Robyn Stacey’s I drew quit fond of was Empire Line, an exhibition about the traces of inhabitation that was part of an ongoing project she was doing with the Historic Houses Trust of NSW. The still life images reflect the nature and precise detail of domesticity in the 19th century, as well as Australia’s colonial history.
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A leading light and a bridge between generations of artists, Thomas Cole and his art were a strong foundation from which the future of American landscape painting would be built. But why was
My aspiration lies in the foreground, creating the dawn and sunset of my life. Artistic inspiration and my future mix and radiate like stars in the heavens. Gleaming lights flood and shine through the entire painting, adding vibrancy and depth to the canvas. The horizon is personified by life and potential. However, it is incomplete and waiting to be drawn, as I continue to look forward with great aspiration and joy to excel.
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Martin Johnson Heade’s oil painting from 1863 entitled Singing Beach, Manchester, located in the De Young Museum’s landscape gallery (room 26), depicts a gleaming sunrise on an Atlantic seashore. In this work, Heade captures the dramatic moment of transition from opaque night to daylight with turbulent beauty, inspiring a feeling of awe and submission toward nature’s ceaseless, cyclical forces. The darkened sky yields reluctantly to the morning sun emerging from below the horizon, as the agitated seascape reflects the unfolding drama above through light and shadow. The unseen presence of the rising sun is suggested by an intense band of radiant pink hues forming on the right side of the horizon, which bleed into the sky through moody tonal gradations, casting an orange haziness below the murky grey and green layers that once colored the expiring night. In accordance with the American Luminist tradition, Heade places the horizon in a rather low position, accentuating the vast expanse of the sky.
Although the production empathized with Australians of the time, it still possessed universal issues and qualities in the characters that are common. The issues of embarrassment, romance, commitment and independence all show themselves throughout the play’s entirety. Lawler took these universal themes and transported them through Australian
The distinctively visual in Douglas Stewart’s poems convey a lasting impression of nature and mankind by creating vivid images of Australian fauna and flora through the use of language techniques. The images he creates of the natural world, its vastness and beauty, ultimately exemplifies larger themes and
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