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Proposal For Landscaped Cosmos
''Proposal for landscaped cosmos'' is a 2010 painting by Australian artist Sam Leach. The work "heavily references" a 1660 painting by Dutch master Adam Pynacker, ''Boatmen Moored on the Shore of an Italian Lake''. The Art Gallery of New South Wales awarded the work the Wynne Prize for landscape painting in 2010. Leach became only the third artist - after William Dobell and Brett Whiteley - to win the Wynne Prize and the Archibald Prize for portrature in the same year. This award was controversial as the Wynne Prize is awarded for Australian landscapes and Leach's painting was described as an 'almost exact replica" of Pynacker's painting of an (imagined) Italian scene. Leach was also criticised for not acknowledging his source. Ted Snell, chair of the visual arts board of the Australia Council Creative Australia, formerly known as the Australia Council for the Arts and the Australia Council, is the country's official arts council, serving as an arts funding and advisor ...
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Sam Leach (artist)
Sam Leach (born 1973) is an Australian contemporary artist. He was born in Adelaide, South Australia. Leach worked for many years in the Australian Tax Office after completion of a degree in Economics. He also completed a Diploma of Art, Bachelor of Fine Art degree and a Master of Fine Art degree at RMIT in Melbourne, Victoria. Leach currently resides in Melbourne. Leach's work has been exhibited in several museum shows including "Optimism" at the Queensland Art Gallery and "Neo Goth" at the University of Queensland Art Museum in 2008, in 2009 "the Shilo Project" at the Ian Potter Museum of Art and "Horror Come Darkness" at the Macquarie University Art Gallery and "Still" at Hawkesbury Regional Gallery in 2010. His work is held in public collections of regional galleries of Geelong, Gold Coast, Coffs Harbour, Newcastle and Gippsland and the collections of La Trobe University and the University of Queensland. His portrait of musical comedian Tim Minchin won the Archibald Pr ...
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2010 In Art
The year 2010 in art involved various significant events. Events *February 3 – The sculpture ''L'Homme qui marche I'' by Alberto Giacometti sells in London for £65 million, at this time a new world record for a work of art sold at auction. *February–March – Artist Michael Landy hosts the ''Art Bin''. *March – Lawrence Salander, the former proprietor of the now closed Salander/O'Reilly Galleries pleads guilty to 29 felony counts of grand larceny and in August is sentenced to six to eighteen years in prison. *March 3 – The New Museum in New York sparks controversy with Skin Fruit: Selections from the Dakis Joannou Collection by deciding to exhibit works from the private collection of one of its trustees. *May – MAXXI the new and first Italian national museum of contemporary art designed by architect Zaha Hadid opens in Rome. *May 4 – ''Nude, Green Leaves and Bust'' a 1932 painting by Pablo Picasso is sold at Christie's for $106.5 million. There are more th ...
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Schippers Met Hun Boten Aan De Oever Van Een Italiaans Meer Rijksmuseum SK-A-321
Schippers is a Dutch occupational surname meaning skipper's. Notable people with the surname include: * Dafne Schippers (born 1992), Dutch heptathlete and sprinter * Daniela Schippers (born 1995), Guatemalan tennis player * David Schippers, American lawyer * Edith Schippers (born 1964), Dutch politician * K. Schippers (1936–2021), Dutch poet, prose writer and art critic * Paulina Schippers (born 1991), Guatemalan tennis player *Thomas Schippers Thomas Schippers (9 March 1930 – 16 December 1977) was an American conductor. He was highly regarded for his work in opera. Biography Of Dutch ancestry and son of the owner of a large appliance store, Schippers was born in Portage, Michig ... (1930–1977), American conductor * Willem Schippers (1867–1954), Dutch author, metalworker * Wim T. Schippers (born 1942), Dutch artist, comedian and voice actor See also * Schipper {{surname, Schippers Dutch-language surnames Occupational surnames ...
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Adam Pynacker
Adam Christiaensz Pynacker or Pijnacker (15 February 1622, Schiedam - buried 28 March 1673, Amsterdam ) was a Dutch Golden Age painter, mostly of landscapes. Biography Pynacker was the son of a wine merchant, who was a member of the ''vroedschap'', or city regency. He travelled to Italy and was gone for three years. In 1658 he converted to Catholicism in order to marry Eva Maria de Geest, Wybrand de Geest's daughter. Two years later his portrait was painted by his father-in-law as a pendant to an earlier portrait of his wife. In Schiedam he baptized two children, but from 1661 until he died, he lived on the Rozengracht in Amsterdam. Wedding portraits De Geest was a highly successful portrait painter who painted his daughter in 1652 and two years after their marriage he painted his new son-in-law's portrait in a matching style as pendant: File:Wybrand de Geest - Adam Joseph Pynacker.jpg, Adam Pynacker, by his father-in-law File:Wybrand de Geest - Eva de Geest.jpg, Eva de Geest, ...
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Art Gallery Of New South Wales
The Art Gallery of New South Wales (AGNSW), founded as the New South Wales Academy of Art in 1872 and known as the National Art Gallery of New South Wales between 1883 and 1958, is located in The Domain, Sydney, Australia. It is the most important public gallery in Sydney and one of the list of largest art museums, largest in Australia. The gallery's first public exhibition opened in 1874. Admission is free to the general exhibition space, which displays Australian art (including Indigenous Australian art), European and Asian art. A dedicated #Asian Art Gallery expansion, Asian Gallery was opened in 2003. History 19th century On 24 April 1871, a public meeting was convened in Sydney to establish an Academy of Art "for the purpose of promoting the fine arts through lectures, art classes and regular exhibitions." Eliezer Levi Montefiore (brother of Jacob Levi Montefiore and nephew of Jacob Barrow Montefiore, Jacob and Joseph Barrow Montefiore) co-founded the New South Wales Aca ...
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Wynne Prize
The Wynne Prize is an Australian landscape painting or figure sculpture art prize. As one of Australia's longest-running art prizes, it was established in 1897 from the bequest of Richard Wynne. Now held concurrently with the Sir John Sulman Prize and the Archibald Prize at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney. It is awarded annually for "the best landscape painting of Australian scenery in oils or watercolours or for the best example of figure sculpture by Australian artists completed during the 12 months preceding the [closing] date". Many of Australia's most famous artists have won the prize, including William Dobell, Brett Whiteley, Hans Heysen, Gloria Petyarre, Lloyd Rees, Fred Williams (artist), Fred Williams, William Robinson (artist), William Robinson, Eric Smith (artist), Eric Smith, Nyapanyapa Yunupingu, and Sali Herman. In 2010, the prize awarded was A$25,000, but the painting by Sam Leach (artist), Sam Leach which was awarded the prize, was later revealed to b ...
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William Dobell
Sir William Dobell (24 September 189913 May 1970) was an Australian portrait and landscape artist of the 20th century. Dobell won the Archibald Prize, Australia's premier award for portrait artists on three occasions. The Dobell Prize is named in his honour. Career Dobell was born in Cooks Hill, a working-class neighbourhood of Newcastle, New South Wales in Australia to Robert Way Dobell and Margaret Emma (née Wrightson). His father was a builder and there were six children. Dobell's artistic talents were evident early. In 1916, he was apprenticed to Newcastle architect, Wallace L. Porter and in 1924 he moved to Sydney as a draftsman. In 1925, he enrolled in evening art classes at the Sydney Art School (which later became the Julian Ashton Art School), with Henry Gibbons as his teacher. He was influenced by George Washington Lambert. He was also gay and consequently never married, while several of his works carried strong homoerotic overtones. In 1929, Dobell was awarded ...
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Brett Whiteley
Brett Whiteley Order of Australia, AO (7 April 1939 – 15 June 1992) was an Australian artist. He is represented in the collections of all the large Australian galleries, and was twice winner of the Archibald Prize, Archibald, Wynne Prize, Wynne and Sulman Prize, Sulman prizes. He held many exhibitions, and lived and painted in Australia as well as Italy, the United Kingdom, Fiji and the United States. Early years Growing up in , a suburb of Sydney, Whiteley was educated at The Scots School, Bathurst and The Scots College, Bellevue Hill, New South Wales, Bellevue Hill. He started drawing at a very early age. While he was a teenager, he painted on weekends in the Central West of New South Wales and Canberra with such works as ''The soup kitchen'' (1958). Throughout 1956 to 1959 at the National Art School in East Sydney (locality), East Sydney, Whiteley attended drawing classes. While still at school, Whiteley visited the Macquarie galleries and saw a one-man exhibition of t ...
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Archibald Prize
The Archibald Prize is an Australian portraiture art prize for painting, generally seen as the most prestigious portrait prize in Australia. It was first awarded in 1921 after the receipt of a bequest from J. F. Archibald, J. F. Archibald, the editor of ''The Bulletin (Australian periodical), The Bulletin'' who died in 1919. It is administered by the trustees of the Art Gallery of New South Wales and awarded for "the best portrait, preferentially of some man or woman distinguished in Art, Letters, Science or Politics, painted by an artist resident in Australia during the twelve months preceding the date fixed by the trustees for sending in the pictures". The Archibald Prize has been awarded annually since 1921 (with two exceptions) and since July 2015 the prize has been Australian dollar, AU$100,000. Winners Prize money *1921 – £400 *1941 – £443 / 13 / 4 *1942 – £441 / 11 / 11 *1951 – £500 *1970 – $2,000 *1971 – $4,000 *2006 – $35,000 *2008 – $50, ...
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Australia Council
Creative Australia, formerly known as the Australia Council for the Arts and the Australia Council, is the country's official arts council, serving as an arts funding and advisory body for the Government of Australia. The council was announced in 1967 as the Australian Council for the Arts, with the first members appointed the following year. It was made a statutory corporation by the passage of the ''Australia Council Act 1975''. It became the Australia Council in 2013, and then Creative Australia, with a new organisational structure, from 24 August 2023. The organisation has included several boards within its structure over the years, including more than one incarnation of a Visual Arts Board (VAB), in the 1970s–80s and in the early 2000s. History Prime Minister Harold Holt announced the establishment of a national arts council in November 1967, modelled on similar bodies in Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States. It was one of his last major policy announ ...
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