Luminous: Australian Watercolours 1900鈥�2000
Luminous is the first exhibition in twenty-five years to feature the
National Gallery of Victoria鈥檚 outstanding collection of watercolours and
gouaches. The exhibition showcases the extraordinary diversity of the medium,
with works by fifty artists including Hans Heysen, Albert Namatjira, Joy Hester,
Fred Williams and John Brack. The radiant colour and transparent washes of
Heysen鈥檚 watercolours capture the light and atmosphere of the Australian
landscape, and works by modernists Frank Hinder and Ludwig Hirschfeld Mack
represent the beauty and rhythm of life in abstract compositions. Also on
display are watercolours from the mid-century, when young artists experimented
with the medium, mixing it with gouache and other media to create powerful
effects in images that reflect the tension and trauma of the war years. The
exhibition features abstract compositions by Tony Tuckson, Gunther Christmann
and Robert Jacks, portraits and still lives, as well as works by contemporary
artists such as Juan Davila, Jon Cattapan and Ricky Swallow.
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Luminous is the first exhibition in twenty-five years to feature the
National Gallery of Victoria鈥檚 outstanding collection of watercolours and
gouaches. The exhibition showcases the extraordinary diversity of the medium,
with works by fifty artists including Hans Heysen, Albert Namatjira, Joy Hester,
Fred Williams and John Brack. The radiant colour and transparent washes of
Heysen鈥檚 watercolours capture the light and atmosphere of the Australian
landscape, and works by modernists Frank Hinder and Ludwig Hirschfeld Mack
represent the beauty and rhythm of life in abstract compositions. Also on
display are watercolours from the mid-century, when young artists experimented
with the medium, mixing it with gouache and other media to create powerful
effects in images that reflect the tension and trauma of the war years. The
exhibition features abstract compositions by Tony Tuckson, Gunther Christmann
and Robert Jacks, portraits and still lives, as well as works by contemporary
artists such as Juan Davila, Jon Cattapan and Ricky Swallow.
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