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Daniel Thomas (art Historian)
Daniel Rhys Thomas AM (born 1931) is an Australian art historian, curator, writer, art critic, and museum director. Early life and education Daniel Thomas was born in Latrobe, near Devonport, Tasmania on 1 May 1931, and at age eight his letter was published the 'Piccaninnies Pages' children's section of the Australian Woman's Mirror. He moved to the mainland and was educated` at Geelong Grammar School, where he was taught by Ludwig Hirschfeld-Mack, a Bauhaus artist who came to Australia as an 'alien' immigrant on the ''Dunera''. He remembered his teacher in the Winter 1993 issue of ''Art and Australia:''The serene, quiet man – so fair that he glowed with the pale radiance of saints in stained glass windows – passed to and fro. One day I was looking at a book about Paul Klee. Hirschfeld noticed, and volunteered that he had known, and worked, with Klee, and with Kandinsky, whom I knew to be another modern master. I was electrified. Suddenly to see the stylistic connecti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Geometric Abstraction
Geometric abstraction is a form of abstract art based on the use of geometric forms sometimes, though not always, placed in non-illusionistic space and combined into non-objective (non-representational) compositions. Although the genre was popularized by avant-garde artists in the early twentieth century, similar motifs have been used in art since ancient times. History Geometric abstraction is present among many cultures throughout history both as decorative motifs and as art pieces themselves. Islamic art, in its prohibition of depicting religious figures, is a prime example of this geometric pattern-based art, which existed centuries before the movement in Europe and in many ways influenced this Western school. Aligned with and often used in the architecture of Islamic civilations spanning the 7th century-20th century, geometric patterns were used to visually connect spirituality with science and art, both of which were key to Islamic thought of the time. Scholarly analysis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Bicentenary
The bicentenary of Australia was celebrated in 1988. It marked 200 years since the arrival of the First Fleet of British convict ships at Sydney in 1788. History The bicentennial year marked Captain Arthur Phillip's arrival with the 11 ships of the First Fleet in Sydney Harbour in 1788, and the founding of the city of Sydney and the colony of New South Wales. 1988 is considered the official bicentenary year of the founding of Australia. Celebrations The Australian Bicentenary was marked by pomp and ceremony across Australia to mark the anniversary of the arrival of the First Fleet of British ships at Sydney in 1788. The Australian Bicentennial Authority (ABA), pursuant to the Australian Bicentennial Authority Act 1980, was set up to plan, fund and coordinate projects that emphasized the nation's cultural heritage. State councils were also created to ensure cooperation between the federal and state governments. The result was a national programme of events and celebrations ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arnhem Land
Arnhem Land is a historical region of the Northern Territory of Australia. It is located in the north-eastern corner of the territory and is around from the territorial capital, Darwin, Northern Territory, Darwin. In 1623, Dutch East India Company captain Voyage of the Pera and Arnhem to Australia in 1623, Willem Joosten van Colster (or Coolsteerdt) sailed into the Gulf of Carpentaria and Cape Arnhem is named after his ship, the ''Arnhem'', which itself was named after the city of Arnhem in the Netherlands. The area covers about and has an estimated population of 16,000, of whom 12,000 are Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. Two regions are often distinguished as East Arnhem (Land) and West Arnhem (Land). The region's service hub is Nhulunbuy, east of Darwin, set up in the early 1970s as a mining town for bauxite. Other major population centres are Yirrkala (just outside Nhulunbuy), Gunbalanya (formerly Oenpelli), Ramingining, and Maningrida. A substantial proportio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Preston
Margaret Rose Preston (29 April 1875 – 28 May 1963) was an Australian painter, printmaker and writer on art who is regarded as one of Australia's leading modernists of the early 20th century. In her quest to foster an Australian "national art", she was also one of the first non-Indigenous Australian artists to use Aboriginal motifs in her work. Her works are distinctively signed MP. Early life Margaret Rose Preston was born on 29 April 1875 in Port Adelaide to David McPherson, a Scottish marine engineer, and Prudence Cleverdon McPherson, née Lyle. She was their first-born child; her sister Ethelwynne Lyle McPherson was born in 1877. The family called Margaret by her middle name (Rose), and it was only in her mid 30s that she began to use Margaret. Preston's family moved to Sydney in 1885, where Preston attended Fort Street Girls' High School for two years. She showed a very early interest in art, first with china painting and then through private art classes with W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Girls Own Gallery
The australian Girls Own Gallery (aGOG) was a commercial art gallery that operated in Leichhardt Street, Kingston in Canberra from 1989 to 1998. The gallery was owned and operated by former National Gallery of Australia curator Helen Maxwell, and exhibited the work of women artists almost exclusively. History The gallery opened in 1989. The first exhibition at aGOG was ''Les femmes formidables 1'' which ran from 16 March – 19 April 1989 and featured the work of five female artists: Banduk Marika, Barbara Hanrahan, Joyce Allen, Lidia Groblicka and Kate Lohse. Art historian and art critic Sasha Grishin noted that the represented artists "from an important cross-section of contemporary women printmakers in Australia". aGOG would exhibit several group and solo shows each year. Represented artists included: Vivienne Binns, Pam Debenham, Judy Horacek, Marie McMahon, Patsy Payne, Mitzi Shearer, Ruth Waller, and Judy Watson. In 1992 and 1995, solo exhibitions of the work o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ron Radford
Ronald Warwick Radford is an Australian curator, who was the director of the National Gallery of Australia (NGA) from 2004 until 2014. He was previously the Director of the Art Gallery of South Australia in Adelaide. Early life and education Ronald Warwick Radford was born in Warragul, Victoria, Australia, in 1949. He attended Scotch College, Melbourne, and then the University of Melbourne and RMIT University. In 2006, he was awarded Doctor of Letters (D.Litt.) by the University of Adelaide for the entirety of books, booklets, articles, and catalogues authored or edited by him during his career as an art curator and gallery director up to that point. Career He was an education officer at the National Gallery of Victoria in 1971 and 1972. He was director of the Ballarat Fine Art Gallery from 1973 to 1980, a position previously held by the founding director of the NGA, James Mollison. From 1980 to 1988 he was curator of European and Australian Paintings and Sculpture at the A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Eagle
Mary Eagle is an Australian art critic, curator and art historian, the author of books, articles and papers on Australian art and artists. Early life and education Eagle was born in Bairnsdale, Victoria in 1944. In her late 20s she took a Bachelor of Arts double degree in History and Fine Arts in 1975 at the University of Melbourne where the ethnographic teaching of University of Melbourne historian Greg Dening was formative in her ideas. There also, she researched the George Bell school for an Honours degree from which ''The George Bell School: students, friends, influences'' was published in 1981. The title of Eagle's PhD thesis awarded by The Australian National University in 2005, is ''A history of Australian art 1830-1930: told through the lives of the objects,'' and was humanist in focus and history-based. It dealt with visual representations by Indigenous Australians and European-Australians of sequential themes,' to the present, 'of land-claims, cultural allegiance, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Gallery Of Australia
The National Gallery of Australia (NGA), formerly the Australian National Gallery, is the national art museum of Australia as well as one of the largest art museums in Australia, holding more than 166,000 works of art. Located in Canberra in the Australian Capital Territory, it was established in 1967 by the Australian Government as a national public art museum. it is under the directorship of Nick Mitzevich. Establishment Prominent Australian artist Tom Roberts had lobbied various Australian prime ministers, starting with the first, Edmund Barton. Prime Minister Andrew Fisher accepted the idea in 1910, and the following year Parliament established a bipartisan committee of six political leaders—the ''Historic Memorials Committee''. The Committee decided that the government should collect portraits of Australian governors-general, parliamentary leaders and the principal "fathers" of federation to be painted by Australian artists. This led to the establishment of what b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giuseppe Galasso
Giuseppe Galasso (19 November 1929 – 12 February 2018) was an Italian historian and politician. He has been a member of the Chamber of Deputies from 1983 to 1994. Early life and career He was born in Naples in 1929: the son of a glass craftsman, he had lost his mother in 1941 and had done a little bit of everything, even the kitchen boy and the porter, to help run the family. He first took the master's qualification, in 1946, at the ''Pasquale Villari school'', then the year after his high school diploma at ''Umberto high school'', as a private owner".Academic activity Graduated in medieval history, and subsequently in literature at the Federico II University of Naples, in ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Venice Biennale
The Venice Biennale ( ; ) is an international cultural exhibition hosted annually in Venice, Italy. There are two main components of the festival, known as the Art Biennale () and the Venice Biennale of Architecture, Architecture Biennale (), which are held in alternating years (hence the name). There are also four additional components, each usually held on an annual basis, comprising , , Venice Film Festival, and Venice Dance Biennale. Between them they cover contemporary art, architecture, music, theatre, film, and contemporary dance. The main exhibition is held in Castello, Venice, Castello and has around 30 permanent pavilions built by different countries. The Biennale has been organised every year since 1895, which makes it the oldest of its kind. Since 2021, the Art Biennale has taken place in even years and the Architecture Biennale in odd years. History 1895–1947 On 19 April 1893, the Venetian City Council passed a resolution to set up an biennial exhibition of I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gael Newton
Gael Lauraine Newton AM (1949– ) is an Australian art historian and curator specialising in surveys and studies of photography across the Asia-Pacific region. Newton was formerly curator of photography at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, and the Senior Curator of Australian and International Photography at the National Gallery of Australia (NGA) in Canberra. Education After her secondary education at Manly Girls High, Newton took studies as one of the first intake into the Power Department of Fine Art at the University of Sydney in 1969-1972 then, pursuing an interest in art practice, enrolled at the Elam Art School in Auckland where photography was a compulsory subject in first year, and was awarded a Bachelor of Fine Art majoring in photography in 1974. She started a Masters degree in art history which was interrupted by a move back to Australia in 1974 and a series of temporary positions at the Art Gallery of New South Wales which introduced the desirability of a caree ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
