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Angry Penguin painters - Australia's Culture Portal

Barbara Tucker, Albert Tucker, Arthur Boyd and Sidney Nolan, Hurstbridge, c. The Angry Penguin painters are considered to be the major figures of a modernist movement in Australian art, based in Melbourne, which has determined and shaped Australian conte...

The Angry Penguins

Centred around poet Max Harris, the movement took their name from an art and literary magazine first published by Harris in 1940. The Angry Penguins, to quote Max Harris, expressed 'a noisy and aggressive revolutionary modernism' and represented the new l...

Grace Cossington Smith - Australia's Culture Portal

Grace Cossington Smith (1892-1984) was a leading Sydney painter in the Australian modernist movement, and her painting The Sock Knitter (1915) is generally regarded as Australia's first modernist work. Grace Cossington Smith, The Bridge in-Curve, c.1930, ...

Modernism - Australia's Culture Portal

By the 1930s, modern style flourished in retail, entertainment, pubs, milk bars, modern swimming pools and fashion. Australia’s reception to modernism is a complex story of spasmodic cultural transformation led by avant-garde experiments and the cr...

Australian painters - Australia's Culture Portal

John Glover (1767-1849), Australian landscape with cattle: the artist's property Patterdale , c. Image courtesy of the National Library of Australia: an2253188. The Heidelberg School was the first significant art movement in Australia. ...

Australian slang - Australia's Culture Portal

Section of a glossary of Australian terms, 1936, Allan & Co. Image courtesy of National Library of Australia. Linguists and other cultural theorists value the study of Australian colloquialisms as a way of observing how the Australian character has develo...

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Ern Malley - the Official Website   (more info)

Website devoted to the great literary hoax, the Ern Malley Affair, when conservative poets James McAuley and Harold Stewart submitted a fake poet to Angry Penguins editor Max Harris in an attempt to mock the Australian modernist movement. Visit for a hist

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Architecture via Butterpaper: Robert Hughes on the modernist movement:   (website Butter Paper )

On the occasion of the V&A s Modernism exhibition in 2006, Robert Hughes wrote this essay for the Guardian. Glass was the very opposite to heavy stone and opaque brick. Glass forms, crystalline and suggestive of weightlessness, seemed to be the stuff of...

Preston & Cossington Smith - Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art   (website Queensland Art Gallery )

Creative Generation Excellence Awards in Visual Art and Design Nurreegoo: The Art and Life of Ron Hurley 1946,Äì2002 The Cypress and the Crow: 50 Years of Iranian Animation...

Richard Hamilton - Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art   (website Queensland Art Gallery )

Creative Generation Excellence Awards in Visual Art and Design Nurreegoo: The Art and Life of Ron Hurley 1946,Äì2002 The Cypress and the Crow: 50 Years of Iranian Animation...

Chase Contemporary and Tribal Arts   (website ARTnews Australia )

chase contemporary & tribal arts is a new Sydney gallery focusing on select mid to late career painters and sculptors working in various mediums. Shows are curated by John Rix, a collector of museum quality Oceanic and South East Asian Tribal material, an...

International Conservation Services - Rose Seidler House   (website International Conservation Services )

Rose Seidler House is unique amongst historic house museums in Australia. It is not only a highly important and influential architectural structure in itself, but also by direct association with Harry Seidler and his family, the contents and surroundings...

High Court - National Gallery Precinct, Australian Capital Territory - National Heritage   (website(s) Our House: Histories of Australian homes    Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts    Australia's heritage )

The High Court - National Gallery Precinct is an integration of buildings, terraces, courts, paving, gardens and water features. The style promotes a monumental presence to the buildings within the High Court - National Gallery of Australia Precinct. The...

lump   (website Art Seen in Western Australia )

On driving past the Verge Gallery the space appears to be empty - a pure white cube with nothing on the walls or the floor. The artists, Jane Finlay and Kate McMillan, describe their project as minimalist and that is certainly appropriate but minimalism ...

collaborations   (website Art Seen in Western Australia )

The New School for Collaborative Development held its first exhibition at PICA in 1993. The School's recent exhibition at The Verge was the result of a similar experience. As Philip McNamara indicated,"collaborative authorship" and "notions of developme...

raw   (website Art Seen in Western Australia )

Concerning the Spiritual in Art, published by Kandisnky in 1911, outlined many of the principles which form the basis of Modern Art. Abstraction, Expressionism, Colour Field and non-figurative art, are therefore, not new but they are still effective in t...

BOOKLIST books available, niagara-galleries.com.au   (website Niagara Galleries )

Lavishly illustrated, this book documents and analyses Australian and Aboriginal art from the famous to the obscure, the colonial to the contemporary. Our Way: Contemporary Aboriginal Art from Lockhart River introduces the unique art of a group of young ...

July/Aug 03 News   (website(s) Hemlock H Mejarne    Sydney Aerial Theatre Association (SATA)    Artmedia )

Artmedia - e-publishing news - July/August 2003============================================== Features: Margaret Preston book/site - Aboriginal art and design Ern Malley, the world's greatest literary hoax Believers in Love, Festival appearances, Canada a...

Art Monthly September 2006 Number 193   (website Art Monthly Australia )

Curated by Melissa Boyde of the University of Wollongong, Art and politics: Mas Evatt and the Evatt Collection, comes to Flinders University City Gallery, until 24 September. Visit the Flinders University City Gallery, Ground Floor, State Library, North ...

Art Monthly July 2005 Number 181   (website Art Monthly Australia )

Prints by six artists, - Rosalind Atkins, Rew Hanks, Jodi Heffernan, Bruce Latimer, Laurie Nona, Anne Starling - have been selected for the 2005 Geelong Acquisitive Prize Awards. Selected by Dr Colin Holden, freelance curator and historian; Lisa Sullivan...