![]() BLACK / Dorrit (Dorothea) Foster Black (1891-1951) began her career in earnest in 1921 and she is know as a painter and printmaker of the Modernist school.ģ9. RAY HUGHES / Art dealer Dr Raymond (Ray) Robert Hughes (1946–2017) was one of Australia’s most flamboyant and passionate advocates for artists.ģ7. Brack is often described as an anti-romantic painter, he seeks inspiration in the people he sees around him.ģ6. BRACK / John Brack (1920-99) was a member of the Antipodeans group. SIDNEY NOLAN / Sidney Nolan (1917-92) is perhaps Australia’s best known painter, a reputation he has held since the early 1960s.ģ5. LEWERS / Margo Lewers (1908-78) was an abstract artist who worked across the media of painting, sculpture, tapestry, ceramics and the domestic arts.ģ3. OLSEN / John Olsen (1920-99) is well known for his energetic and distinctive painting style, his primary subject is landscape.ģ1. ALBERT TUCKER / Albert Tucker (1914-99) was responsible for reinvigorating and re-mythologising the Australian landscape.Ģ8. He and his entire body of work were created in one day in 1943 by conservative writers James McAuley and Harold Stewart in order to hoax Max Harris and his modernist magazine Angry Penguins.Ģ4. ERN / Ernest Lalor ‘Ern’ Malley was a fictitious poet and the central figure in Australia’s most famous literary hoax. JOY HESTER / Joy Hester (1920-60) was a member of the Angry Penguins who played an important role in the development of Australian modernism.Ģ3. BURDETT / Basil Burdett (1897-1942) was a journalist, art dealer and critic.Ģ1. NOLAN / Henry Miller’s novel’s original red wrappers with black lettering was designed by Sidney Nolan (1917-92).ġ9. ![]() Gascoigne worked with items that had been discarded and left to weather, finding beauty in them that would normally be overlooked.ġ8. GASCOIGNE / Rosalie Gascoigne (1917-99) is best known for her wall-based assemblages, which brought diverse materials from everyday life into new frames of reference. DRYSDALE / George Russell Drysdale (1912-81) was influenced by abstract and surrealist art, and created a new vision of Australia.ġ6. He adopted surrealist methods and ideas from about 1940.ġ5. He was interested equally in the philosophy and technology of painting. SIME / Ian Sime (1926-89) was a council member of the Melbourne Contemporary Art Society and vice- president from 1956-62. Whisson’s blurring of the line between figuration and abstraction was unique in Australian art at the time.ġ4. These works show the beginnings of the style he is recognised for – simplified details, distorted forms and the manipulation of perspective and the relationship between figures or objects and ground. WHISSON / Ken Whisson (b.1927) traveled widely, producing a range of landscapes, still life, figure work and portraits. ![]() SMITH / Bernard William Smith (1916-2011) was an Australian art historian, art critic and academic, considered one of the most eminent art historians of the 20th century.ġ2. TANNER / In 1934 when Edwin Tanner (1920-80) was attending the Wollongong Junior Technical College he designed his own racing bike and formed a cycle club.ġ0. HAEFLINGER / In 1941 Paul Haefliger (1914-82) was appointed art critic for the Sydney Morning Herald, a position he held until 1957.ĩ. Ltd., Lidcombe and in 1951 with Mural – Restaurant R.M.S. ANNAND / Douglas S Annand (1903-76) won the Sir John Sulman Prize in 1941 with Set of Historical murals – painted in oils on plaster – Boys’, in 1947 with Mural “in situ”, Messrs. BROWN / The Annandale Imitation Realists (also known as Imitation Realism) was a short-lived collaborative group of mixed media avant-garde artists formed in Sydney in 1961, Mike Brown (1938-97) was a founding member.Ħ. Noel McKenna, Australia b.1956 / Australian Art History 1933–1978 2004 / Synthetic polymer paint and enamel on canvas / 152.5 x 183cm / Courtesy: The artist and / Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney / © The artist AcrossĢ. SIGN UP NOW: Subscribe to QAGOMA Blog for the latest announcements, acquisitions, behind-the-scenes features, and artist stories. The crossword questions were published in a previous blog, how many did you get right? ![]() The work is a larger-than-life crossword in the shape of Australia, intended for an in-crowd interested in Australian art history of the twentieth century. Here are the answers to Noel McKenna’s crossword Australian Art History 1933–1978. ![]()
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