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Category Archives: Art
These Are No Fakes | These Are Real Thake’s
Eric Thake, (1904-1982), Australian print-maker, painter and photographer trained at the National Gallery School and the George Bell School. During his earlier career, he showed with the Contemporary Group in Melbourne between 1932 and 1938 before serving as an … Continue reading
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Not the Blue Poles You Were Perhaps Thinking Of?
Jonathan Jones Kamilaroi/Wiradjuri (born 1978) won an Art and Australia Emerging Art award in 2005 for his work entitled: Blue Poles. [Blue Poles (2004) 10 fluorescent lights, transparent synthetic polymer resin, composition board, electrical cord, 168.9 cm x 285.3 cm … Continue reading
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Three Slithers of Walter Withers
[Images: Allegory to Spring (Portrait of Gladys Manifold) oil on canvas (1902); The Drover (1912) Bendigo Art Gallery] Walter Herbert Withers was an Australian landscape artist and a member of the Heidelberg School of Australian Impressionists (The Heidelberg School) along … Continue reading
I’m Spinning Around | The Famous Hill’s Hoists
The Australian invention Hill’s Hoists outdoors clothes line transformed backyards across Australia in years after World War Two (WW2) due to a couple of wayward fruit trees behind a house in an Adelaide suburb. Lance Hill of Glenunga returned home … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Gallery Art, Illustrations, nostalgia, Paintings, Tea Towels
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A Topological Measure of Escher
[Images: Dream (early woodcut, 1935), Stars (polyhedron wood engraving, 1948), Vlinders aka Butterflies, (wood engraving, 1950), Circle Limit III (woodcut, 1959)]. Dutch graphic artist Maurits Cornelis (M.C.) Escher aka “ Mauk” was born June 17, 1898, in Leeuwarden, The Netherlands. … Continue reading
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This Nude Life of Janet Cumbrae-Stewart
[Images: Early in the Morning (1924 pastel on paper mounted on board NGA Canberra) Portrait of a Girl with Flowers (1922 pastel 74 cm x 53 cm) Janet Agnes Cumbrae-Stewart was born on 23 December, 1883 in the Melbourne Bayside … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Artists A-Z, Erotic Art, Gallery Art, Paintings, Watercolours
Tagged Australian artists, female artists, nudes paintings, pastels
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Vanitas | The Still Life of Pieter Claesz
[Images: Vanitas (Still Life) by Pieter Claesz] Dutch Golden Age artist Pieter Claesz was born c. 1597 in Berchem, near Antwerp, Belgium. Living in Haarlem, he became a member of the Guild of St. Luke in 1620. Claesz was influenced … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Artists A-Z, DarkArt, Paintings
Tagged Dutch art, Dutch artists, Golden Age Art, Reformation art, Vanitas
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A Backview of Caspar Friedrich’s Art
[Image One: Sunset – The Brothers (1835) The Hermitage, St. Petersburg. Image Two: The Wanderer Above the Sea of Clouds (1831) Hamburg Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany.] Caspar David Friedrich studied drawing in Greifswold before going to the Copenhagen Academy between 1794-1798. … Continue reading
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Tagged German artists, Romanticism movement, Scandinavian art
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When Art Begins to Imitate Art
Johannes Vermeer (1632-1675) was a famous Dutch Baroque period artist who died at a veritable young age of 43 years; but managed to produce 34 quality paintings during his short career. Vermeer was known to paint slowly, touching and polishing … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Artists A-Z, ChalkArt, Gallery Art, Paintings, StreetArt
Tagged chalk art, Girl With a Pearl Earring, Vermeer
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They Are Redheads | Not Deadheads!
Redheads is an iconic Australian top-selling brand of matches originally manufactured in Victoria by Bryant & May match factory at Church Street, Richmond. The factory was opened in 1909 by The Honourable Alfred Deakin, Prime Minister of Australia. The Redhead … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Cover Art, nostalgia, Urban Art
Tagged Bryant & May, match box covers, Pop Art, Redheads matches
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Pop Art | Dot Art | Appears to Tear the Heart
American pop art artist Roy Fox Lichtenstein was born on October 27, 1923 in New York, into an upper-middle-class Jewish family. He is known as a leading figure in the pop-art movement which focussed on parody; where his work was … Continue reading
The Glorio of Loureiro | In the Springtime of His New Moon
[Images: The Spirit of the New Moon (1888), The Spirit of the Southern Cross (1888) and Spring (1891) by Artur Loureiro.] Portuguese painter, Artur José de Sousa Loureiro was born on 11 February 1853, in Porto, Portugal. Lourerio attended the … Continue reading
These models knelt for Albert Edelfelt
Finnish artist Albert Gustaf Aristides Edelfelt was born on 21 July 1854 in Porvoo, Finland. He began his formal studies of art in 1869 at the Drawing School of the Finnish Art Society; and continued as a student of Adolf … Continue reading
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Tagged Finnish art, Finnish artists, Realist art movement
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Greer Honeywill | Architecture of the Heart
[Above images: Architecture of the Heart #1 and #2 (2008-2012) Duratran, powder coated light box 96 cm x 62 cm] Australian conceptual artist, Greer Honeywill (born 1945 in Adelaide, South Australia), studied art at the South Australian School of Art … Continue reading
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Tagged #Installations, conceptual art, conceptual artist, Installation art, large-scale installation art
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