Modern Australian Landscapes, 1940s-1960s: Works from the University of Western Australia Art Collection
This exhibition explores the modern landscape tradition in Australian art, through works in the University of Western Australia Art Collection.
During the post-war period, many Australian artists were attracted to landscape painting as a means of exploring the ideas and technical innovations associated with modern art. Formal experimentation can be seen in the use of bold bands of colour which compress the compositional space, or in the repetition of quasi-abstract brush marks which create an impression of the land, full of vitality and energy.
Many paintings emphasise the underlying structures of the bush 鈥� distilling
the essential elements of nature. Working beyond conventional definitions of the
genre, and conveying something of the experience of being in the land, artists
such as Howard Taylor integrated the materials of nature into their artworks, as
in Bush Structure, 1963, made of sheoak and jarrah.
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This exhibition explores the modern landscape tradition in Australian art, through works in the University of Western Australia Art Collection.
During the post-war period, many Australian artists were attracted to landscape painting as a means of exploring the ideas and technical innovations associated with modern art. Formal experimentation can be seen in the use of bold bands of colour which compress the compositional space, or in the repetition of quasi-abstract brush marks which create an impression of the land, full of vitality and energy.
Many paintings emphasise the underlying structures of the bush 鈥� distilling
the essential elements of nature. Working beyond conventional definitions of the
genre, and conveying something of the experience of being in the land, artists
such as Howard Taylor integrated the materials of nature into their artworks, as
in Bush Structure, 1963, made of sheoak and jarrah.
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