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Gruner, Billy. "Painting the object : recent formal Australian painting." Phd thesis, Sydney College of the Arts, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/4992.
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Wenholz, Mary Peta. "Painting about painting: the contemporary expansion of medium specificity." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2007. https://hdl.handle.net/2123/28934.
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Studio:
The work submitted for examination in December 2007 at SCA
Galleries, consists of a painting constructed within the gallery
space, and is the culmination of the research undertaken during
the Masters of Visual Arts program. Untitled (Vinyl wall
composition) I (2007) investigates how the act of making can
function as a speculative activity interested in both the
materiality of painting and the architectural context in which the
work is placed.
Research Paper:
The objective of this research paper is to investigate the
theoretical concerns raised by the studio work. It explores the
contemporary position of medium specificity through the work of
Tony Tuckson, Robert Ryman, Bernard Frize, Alan Charlton, Daniel
Buren and Katharina Grosse.
Discussion of the work of each of these artists focuses on the way
in which the physical characteristics of the materials used to
construct a painting can inform how the work is read and the ways
in which the architectural context can influence how a painting is
perceived.
Through exploring the practices of each of these artists and
establishing the conceptual strategies employed by each, this
paper seeks to locate the central concerns of my practice within
the discourse of contemporary painting.
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Waldmann, Anna. "Desiderius Orban: an Australian romantic." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 1987. https://hdl.handle.net/2123/26267.
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Desiderius Orban (1884-1986) was born in Hungary. He had been a successful painter and teacher in his country of origin and came to Australia in 1939 as a mature and formed artist. He gained recognition in the Sydney art circles relatively soon after his arrival, had a large number of exhibitions, took part in numerous competitions, became a member of various art groups. Orban published three books and ran an art school from 1941 until his death in October 1986. In an unpublished autobiography written in 1965, Orban commented about his artistic career:
I always had doubt of my achievements. From nature I am sceptical towards my ability. I feel that my progress was a slow but a steady one. From the beginning my intellect played more important part than my emotions. On the other hand nearly all of my paintings have a romantic hint. This contradiction puzzled me a lot. I tried to fight against this romanticism without any success. Apparently my subconscious and my conscious mind disagree.
In his teaching and writings Orban pursued the idea that a creative mind is a mind free of prejudice. In his paintings however, he was unable to flee from the restrictions of conventionalism until the 1960s Orban's desire to translate his creed into artistic terms was hindered by technical limitations. In Orban, the distinction between aesthetic thought and method of expression had produced a constant struggle that resulted in decades of influential romantic teaching and accomplished rather than distinguished middle-of-the-road painting. The denouement of this struggle was achieved in the latter part of his lit when Orban abandoned his semi-illusionist methods. Orban's threefold career as a painter, writer and teacher, was intertwined and has to be viewed in the context of Hungarian and Australian art and thinking, as well as politics and perceptions.
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Parker, Margaret Ina. "Landscape painting : connection, perception and attention /." Access full text, 2006. http://www.lib.latrobe.edu.au/thesis/public/adt-LTU20080225.113947/index.html.
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Thesis (M.Visual Arts) -- La Trobe University, 2006.Research. "An exegesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Visual Arts by Research, School of Visual Arts and Design, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, La Trobe University, Bundoora". Includes bibliographical references (leaves 87-92). Also available via the World Wide Web.
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Sherwin, Fiona Gill Harry P. "Harry Pelling Gill, a practising artist /." Title page, table of contents and abstract only, 2003. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09ARAHM/09arahms5541.pdf.
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Wheeler, Elizabeth. "Colour, immateriality & uncertainty in painting." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2004. https://hdl.handle.net/2123/28007.
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The objective of the research paper is to explore the theoretical concerns raised in the studio work. The paper discusses concerns such as colour activity and perception; the interdependence of the material and the immaterial in painting; and the uncertainty inherent in the process of painting and how that relates to wider experiences of uncertainty. The discussion focuses on the practice of artists who engage with such concerns, comparing and highlighting commonalities in their work, the objective being to articulate the central concerns of my own practice and in doing so, po-sition it within the discourse of contemporary painting.
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Urquhart, Ian McLeod, and n/a. "An internship in painting conservation at the Australian National Gallery." University of Canberra. Applied Science, 1985. http://erl.canberra.edu.au./public/adt-AUC20061109.162330.
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My employment in the Paintings Section of the Conservation Department
of the Australian National Gallery began in June 1983, however my
internship did not begin until March 1984 under the supervision of
Allan Byrne.
At that time, the paintings section was divided, rather arbitrarily,
into: paintings pre-1940, headed by Ilse King and; paintings
post-1940, headed by Allan Byrne.
Because of the departure of the then senior curator of conservation Dr
Nathan Stolow, Allan Byrne became acting senior curator. When Allan
Byrne took up the position of lecturer in paintings conservation at
C.C.A.E., Ilse King then became acting senior curator and my
supervisor; the division within the painting section was then
disbanded.
Jac Macnaughtan departed temporarily from the department to undertake
study and to work at the Tate Gallery and at the Courtauld Institute
in London leaving me with the paintings section.
I was fortunate enough to have at first one assistant Simon Hartas,
then two assistants, Mark Henderson and Les Cormack to help with the
task of backing, framing and restretching paintings.
There was no formal training programme for an intern - work was
undertaken as it came into the department and as it was allotted.
For the sake of simplicity and ease of handling the dissertation is
divided into 3 parts:
Part 1 includes the Functions and Facilities of the conservation
department.
Part 2 includes an outline of painting conservation practice within
the gallery and details of conservation work undertaken.
Part 3 comprises a project on some of the properties of hardboard.
As the gallery has in its collection a considerable number of
paintings on hardboard, to augment my knowledge and perhaps give some
insight into the nature of hardboard, this project was undertaken in
conjunction with the internship.
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Parker, Margaret Ina, and margaret_p@optusnet com au. "Landscape Painting: Connection, Perception and Attention." La Trobe University. Visual arts and design, 2006. http://www.lib.latrobe.edu.au./thesis/public/adt-LTU20080225.113947.
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I investigate the lived experience, the actuality of responding to land as a painter. This thesis consists of intensive investigations in the field and further exploration in the studio, resulting in a body of paintings and drawings which form the exhibition. The exegesis explores theories and ideas surrounding the work. The psychological engagement between people, land and art is of major concern. The choice of place selected to paint and the subject matter of rocks is discussed. Painters who work outside or have painted at the same site are considered for comparison with my working methods or concerns. The selective view is intimate. The format of the image and the composition are discussed in terms of proximity and space.
Consideration of the psychology of engagement with land and landscape painting, either as an observer or painter, is a major component of the research. This examination of human psychological development illuminates the origin of our sense of self and how we relate to the land on which we live. The premise of this enquiry is the idea that art and culture could reflect human psychological development. Do art objects contribute to cultural understanding of the relationship of person to environment? A phenomenological perspective is incorporated in this exploration of the interrelation of vision, perception and attention. Can the reality of experience be transferred into the art work? The deep attention to the landscape of Australian Aboriginal people serves as a cultural reference for these investigations.
This study concludes that sentient consciousness involving responsibility for land is an open, effective way of perceiving and depicting landscape. Responsibility for land can be encouraged by the development of cultural ideas based around landscape and can be the result of feeling connected to land. Art can contribute to changes in attitudes to land.
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Piper, Jennifer Ann. "White, Carey and Nolan : national myth in Australian literature and painting." Thesis, Open University, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.446272.
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Hattam, Katherine, and katherine hattam@deakin edu au. "Art and Oedipus." Deakin University. School of Communication and Creative Arts, 2003. http://tux.lib.deakin.edu.au./adt-VDU/public/adt-VDU20070816.121927.
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Purcell, Marisa. "Ancestral spaces time, memory and the liminal experience of painting /." Connect to full text, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/2763.
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Thesis (M.V.A.)--University of Sydney, 2008.Title from title screen (viewed 11 September, 2008). Submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Visual Arts to the Sydney College of the Arts. Degree awarded 2008; thesis submitted 2007. Includes bibliographical references.
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Wang, Kang Ning. "Sino‐Australian Nomads: Identity Politics And The Art Of Migrants." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/15088.
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Description of my artwork My MFA creative work consists of a body of work of 14 pieces of various sized abstract paintings that will be exhibited at one of the galleries in the February Postgraduate Examination Exhibition at the Sydney College of the Arts. The entire project consists of works on paper using the medium of ink, gouache, acrylics, pencil and digital data. Entitled ‘Forms from the Twilight Zone ’ this body of work is largely an experimentation aimed at using mixed medium to project globalised features of identity arts such as oriental style painting meeting western styles; resulting in a combined style influenced by my personal circumstances. Abstract of research paper My research paper is designed to explore the issues of identity. Artists and their works mostly have their genesis in and are influenced by their cultural identities with global politics playing an additional crucial role affecting these arts. My research led to the discovery that Chinese cultural identity artists create art that, due to its political characteristics, has become known and popular in the West, and that these characteristics generate identity issues to both these Chinese artists and to the West. In the research process, theories involving modern arts form a trajectory to my approach of the art world of the 21st century while an ongoing investigation of the situation of visual arts, in both international and domestic dimensions, provides facts for synthesis of these theories. The conclusion of my research is based on the fact that a combination of styles is part of art history. The nature of this combination depends on the ideas and the beliefs that an artist is subjected to in the approach to his or her own art.
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Dreise, Mayrah Yarraga. "Constructing Place: Australian Aboriginal Art Practice at the Cultural Aesthetic Interface." Thesis, Griffith University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/366227.
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This exegesis frames my creative research. It details the cultural theories, histories, artists, arts practices and creative processes that have influenced the project. The exegesis provides an insight into the creative journey, conceptual thinking and arts products that have assisted me in answering the research question - Can artworks become a form of cultural agency whereby Aboriginal Place is realised not reconceptualised? Drawing from place-based methodologies, post-colonial theories, subaltern studies and Aboriginal ways of working, this research aspired to engage the viewer within a dialectic that realised the tensions and challenges Aboriginal artists have in presenting a sense of Place within artworks. It considered how Aboriginal art can both educe and challenge viewers’ cultural constructions of Aboriginal peoples, which impact on the reception, promotion and categorisation of Aboriginal art. The project asked, if whiteness is the imposed spatial aesthetic, how can Aboriginal Place, a culturally and communally held understanding of the world ever be realised? The creative research considered to what extent an Aboriginal artwork is both ‘a white thing’ and ‘a black thing’. The research interrogated knowledge intersections, Western and Indigenous, located within the cultural aesthetic interface. Through creative praxis artificial binaries existing within the Australian arts industry - traditional and contemporary, remote and urban, authentic and inauthentic, individual and collective - were challenged.Thesis (PhD Doctorate)
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Queensland College of Art
Arts, Education and Law
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Ottley, Dianne. "Grace Crowley's contribution to Australian modernism and geometric abstraction." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/2254.
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Grace Crowley was one of the leading innovators of geometric abstraction in Australia. When she returned to Australia in 1930 she had thoroughly mastered the complex mathematics and geometry of the golden section and dynamic symmetry that had become one of the frameworks for modernism. Crowley, Anne Dangar and Dorrit Black all studied under the foremost teacher of modernism in Paris, André Lhote. Crowley not only taught the golden section and dynamic symmetry to Rah Fizelle, Ralph Balson and students of the Crowley-Fizelle Art School, but used it to develop her own abstract art during the 1940s and 1950s, well in advance of the arrival of colour-field painting to Australia in the 1960s. Through her teaching at the most progressive modern art school in Sydney in the 1930s Crowley taught the basic compositional techniques as she had learnt them from Lhote. When the art school closed in 1937 she worked in partnership with fellow artist, Ralph Balson as they developed their art into constructive, abstract paintings. Balson has been credited with being the most influential painter in the development of geometric abstraction in Australia for a younger generation of artists. This is largely due to Crowley’s insistence that Balson was the major innovator who led her into abstraction. She consistently refused to take credit for her own role in their artistic partnership. My research indicates that there were a number of factors that strongly influenced Crowley to support Balson and deny her own role. Her archives contain sensitive records of the breakup of her partnership with Rah Fizelle and the closure of the Crowley-Fizelle Art School. These, and other archival material, indicate that Fizelle’s inability to master and teach the golden section and dynamic symmetry, and Crowley’s greater popularity as a teacher, was the real cause of the closure of the School. Crowley left notes in her Archives that she still felt deeply distressed, even forty years after the events, and did not wish the circumstances of the closure known in her lifetime. With the closure of the Art School and her close friend Dangar living in France, her friendship with Balson offered a way forward. This thesis argues that Crowley chose to conceal her considerable mathematical and geometric ability, rather than risk losing another friend and artistic partner in a similar way to the breakup of the partnership with Fizelle. With the death of her father in this period, she needed to spend much time caring for her mother and that left her little time for painting. She later also said she felt that a man had a better chance of gaining acceptance as an artist, but it is equally true that, without Dangar, she had no-one to give her support or encourage her as an artist. By supporting Balson she was able to provide him with a place to work in her studio and had a friend with whom she could share her own passion for art, as she had done with Dangar. During her long friendship with Balson, she painted with him and gave him opportunities to develop his talents, which he could not have accessed without her. She taught him, by discreet practical demonstration the principles she had learnt from Lhote about composition. He had only attended the sketch club associated with the Crowley- Fizelle Art School. Together they discussed and planned their paintings from the late 1930s and worked together on abstract paintings until the mid-1950s when, in his retirement from house-painting, she provided him with a quiet, secluded place in which to paint and experiment with new techniques. With her own artistic contacts in France, she gained him international recognition as an abstract painter and his own solo exhibition in a leading Paris art gallery. After his death in 1964, she continued to promote his art to curators and researchers, recording his life and art for posterity. The artist with whom she studied modernism in Paris, Anne Dangar, also received her lifelong support and promotion. In the last decade of her life Crowley provided detailed information to curators and art historians on the lives of both her friends, Dangar and Balson, meticulously keeping accurate records of theirs and her own life devoted to art. In her latter years she arranged to deposit these records in public institutions, thus becoming a contributor to Australian art history. As a result of this foresight, the stories of both her friends, Balson and Dangar, have since become a record of Australian art history. (PLEASE NOTE: Some illustrations in this thesis have been removed due to copyright restrictions, but may be consulted in the print version held in the Fisher Library, University of Sydney. APPENDIX 1 gratefully supplied from the Grace Crowley Archives, Art Gallery of New South Wales Research Library)
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Ottley, Dianne. "Grace Crowley's contribution to Australian modernism and geometric abstraction." University of Sydney, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/2254.
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Master of PhilosophyGrace Crowley was one of the leading innovators of geometric abstraction in Australia. When she returned to Australia in 1930 she had thoroughly mastered the complex mathematics and geometry of the golden section and dynamic symmetry that had become one of the frameworks for modernism. Crowley, Anne Dangar and Dorrit Black all studied under the foremost teacher of modernism in Paris, André Lhote. Crowley not only taught the golden section and dynamic symmetry to Rah Fizelle, Ralph Balson and students of the Crowley-Fizelle Art School, but used it to develop her own abstract art during the 1940s and 1950s, well in advance of the arrival of colour-field painting to Australia in the 1960s. Through her teaching at the most progressive modern art school in Sydney in the 1930s Crowley taught the basic compositional techniques as she had learnt them from Lhote. When the art school closed in 1937 she worked in partnership with fellow artist, Ralph Balson as they developed their art into constructive, abstract paintings. Balson has been credited with being the most influential painter in the development of geometric abstraction in Australia for a younger generation of artists. This is largely due to Crowley’s insistence that Balson was the major innovator who led her into abstraction. She consistently refused to take credit for her own role in their artistic partnership. My research indicates that there were a number of factors that strongly influenced Crowley to support Balson and deny her own role. Her archives contain sensitive records of the breakup of her partnership with Rah Fizelle and the closure of the Crowley-Fizelle Art School. These, and other archival material, indicate that Fizelle’s inability to master and teach the golden section and dynamic symmetry, and Crowley’s greater popularity as a teacher, was the real cause of the closure of the School. Crowley left notes in her Archives that she still felt deeply distressed, even forty years after the events, and did not wish the circumstances of the closure known in her lifetime. With the closure of the Art School and her close friend Dangar living in France, her friendship with Balson offered a way forward. This thesis argues that Crowley chose to conceal her considerable mathematical and geometric ability, rather than risk losing another friend and artistic partner in a similar way to the breakup of the partnership with Fizelle. With the death of her father in this period, she needed to spend much time caring for her mother and that left her little time for painting. She later also said she felt that a man had a better chance of gaining acceptance as an artist, but it is equally true that, without Dangar, she had no-one to give her support or encourage her as an artist. By supporting Balson she was able to provide him with a place to work in her studio and had a friend with whom she could share her own passion for art, as she had done with Dangar. During her long friendship with Balson, she painted with him and gave him opportunities to develop his talents, which he could not have accessed without her. She taught him, by discreet practical demonstration the principles she had learnt from Lhote about composition. He had only attended the sketch club associated with the Crowley- Fizelle Art School. Together they discussed and planned their paintings from the late 1930s and worked together on abstract paintings until the mid-1950s when, in his retirement from house-painting, she provided him with a quiet, secluded place in which to paint and experiment with new techniques. With her own artistic contacts in France, she gained him international recognition as an abstract painter and his own solo exhibition in a leading Paris art gallery. After his death in 1964, she continued to promote his art to curators and researchers, recording his life and art for posterity. The artist with whom she studied modernism in Paris, Anne Dangar, also received her lifelong support and promotion. In the last decade of her life Crowley provided detailed information to curators and art historians on the lives of both her friends, Dangar and Balson, meticulously keeping accurate records of theirs and her own life devoted to art. In her latter years she arranged to deposit these records in public institutions, thus becoming a contributor to Australian art history. As a result of this foresight, the stories of both her friends, Balson and Dangar, have since become a record of Australian art history. (PLEASE NOTE: Some illustrations in this thesis have been removed due to copyright restrictions, but may be consulted in the print version held in the Fisher Library, University of Sydney. APPENDIX 1 gratefully supplied from the Grace Crowley Archives, Art Gallery of New South Wales Research Library)
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Suwannakudt, Phaptawan. "The Elephant and the Journey: A Mural in Progress." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/1101.
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The Elephant and the Journey is about what and how people see in the land and how this is expressed through art forms. The dissertation consists of three main parts. The first in the introduction explains the use of the narrative figuration form in Thai temple mural painting in my practice, and how I used it to apply to the contemporary context in Australia. The second concerns three main groups of work including Australian landscape paintings in the nineteenth century, aboriginal art works and Thai mural painting, which apply to the topic of landscape. The second part in Chapters I and II, examine how significant the perspective view in the landscape was for artists during the colonial period in Australia. At the same time I consult the practice in Aboriginal art which also concerns land, and how people communicate through the subject and how both practices apply to Thai art, with which I am dealing. Chapter III looks at works of individual artists in contemporary Australia including Tim Johnson, Judy Watson, Kathleen Petyarre Emily Kngwerreye, and then finishes with my studio work during 2004-2005. The third part, the conclusion refers to the notions of cultural geography as suggested by Mike Crang, Edward Relph and Christopher Tilley, which analyse how people relate to a location through their own experience. I describe how I used a Thai narrative verse written by my father to communicate my work to the Australian society in which I now live.
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Suwannakudt, Phaptawan. "The Elephant and the Journey: A Mural in Progress." University of Sydney, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/1101.
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Master of Visual ArtsThe Elephant and the Journey is about what and how people see in the land and how this is expressed through art forms. The dissertation consists of three main parts. The first in the introduction explains the use of the narrative figuration form in Thai temple mural painting in my practice, and how I used it to apply to the contemporary context in Australia. The second concerns three main groups of work including Australian landscape paintings in the nineteenth century, aboriginal art works and Thai mural painting, which apply to the topic of landscape. The second part in Chapters I and II, examine how significant the perspective view in the landscape was for artists during the colonial period in Australia. At the same time I consult the practice in Aboriginal art which also concerns land, and how people communicate through the subject and how both practices apply to Thai art, with which I am dealing. Chapter III looks at works of individual artists in contemporary Australia including Tim Johnson, Judy Watson, Kathleen Petyarre Emily Kngwerreye, and then finishes with my studio work during 2004-2005. The third part, the conclusion refers to the notions of cultural geography as suggested by Mike Crang, Edward Relph and Christopher Tilley, which analyse how people relate to a location through their own experience. I describe how I used a Thai narrative verse written by my father to communicate my work to the Australian society in which I now live.
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Scheib, Michael. "Painting Anzac: a history of Australia’s official war art scheme of the First World War." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/13139.
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This history of Australia’s official war art scheme of the First World War examines the processes by which its part in the conflict was given pictorial form as part of an official and publicly funded project of nation-building – the project of the official representation of Anzac – which involved representing Anzac in a written history, pictures, photographs, trophies, relics, models and sculptures, and as a national war museum. Conceived during the war by Charles Bean, Australia’s official war correspondent and historian, the object of this project was to construct a story of Australia’s part in the war – the Anzac story – to be told for posterity in a national war museum erected in the nation’s capital as a monument to the AIF, ultimately the Australian War Memorial. The story he constructed told of the arrival on the world stage of a young nation through its supreme military performance and of the forging of a military tradition known as Anzac. While Bean’s involvement in creating the Anzac legend is universally acknowledged, his role in constructing the official version of it has not been recognised. This history fills that gap in knowledge. Revering Britain’s military tradition and inculcated in the forms in which it was represented, Bean resolved to represent the Anzac story identically. Its tradition was represented pictorially by battle pictures, military scenes and portraits. The official war art scheme produced pictures made at the front, large historical pictures which illustrated the Anzac story, and portraits of its principal actors. This history shows how Bean exercised control over the scheme to create an image of Anzac that reflected his conception of it; to ensure that the Anzac story was illustrated as he wished it told for posterity; to promote the idea that Anzac was a military tradition which stood alongside the great traditions of other nations; and to promote the idea that Australia’s future nationality should be defined by that tradition.
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Millward, William H., University of Western Sydney, and of Performance Fine Arts and Design Faculty. "Beneath the surface : the role of intuition in the creative process." THESIS_FPFAD_XXX_Millward_W.xml, 1998. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/308.
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One question raised when creating, evaluating and appraising art work is 'How do we know what we know?' This exegesis attempts to answer this by establishing the important role intuitive knowledge plays in decision making in general, and within the author's own art practice specifically. The study reviews some of the literature on intuition from philosophical and psychological perspective in order to validate intuitive knowledge and intuitive decision making within contemporary art practice. However, just because intuition may drive the process, it does not mean that the product of intuitive practice is necessarily good or has any value. Consequently, the importance of aesthetics, and the values of integrity, honesty and truth are explored from a philosophical perspective. These are discussed in relation to the art practice of other artists from this century as well as that of the writer. Having constructed a philosophical framework to work within and be guided by, the final part of this study documents the development of the practical work and how this framework influences the art practice and the outcomes of that practice. It is hoped that the results of the study will reassert the validity and relevance of this form of art practice and philosophy within contemporary art practice.Master of Arts (Hons) (Visual Art)
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Jordanov, Iliana H. "Decorator or narrator: A contextualisation of Slavic and Australian pattern making and its relationship to my painting practice." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2004. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/844.
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In this thesis, I will examine pattern making in art practice from two cultural perceptions, Slavic and Australian. Existing differences between the two cultural backgrounds will be used to debate how pattern is understood by the viewer or practiced by an artist in a particular chosen environment. The central argument focuses on pattern as a decorator and/or a narrator. I will examine the outcomes and changes in narrative pattern according to cultural context and exchange. By introducing Slavic pattern into contemporary (Australian) art practice, I examine how traditional cultural values and functions change. In discussing the processes of changes that occur in intercultural exchange, I will draw my opinions and observations from writers, critics and artists such as William Morris, Lucien Henry, Stuart Hall, Jean-Francois Lyotard, Grace Cohrane, Nicolas Pevsner, Faith Ringgold, Joan Snyder, Miriam Schapiro and Cynthia Carlson. My final conclusion will be drawn from my personal visual practice that uses pattern
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Donald, Colin University of Ballarat. "Quoting landscape : an investigative journey across the landscape of the Westen district of Victoria." University of Ballarat, 2004. http://archimedes.ballarat.edu.au:8080/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/12759.
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"This research project aims to provide a contemporary visualisation of "specific sites." The visualisation of these selected landscapes will draw upon and add to existing traditions of representation of this region, embedding my experiences within this dialogue."Master of Arts (Visual Arts)
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Donald, Colin. "Quoting landscape : an investigative journey across the landscape of the Westen district of Victoria." Thesis, University of Ballarat, 2004. http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/37534.
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"This research project aims to provide a contemporary visualisation of "specific sites." The visualisation of these selected landscapes will draw upon and add to existing traditions of representation of this region, embedding my experiences within this dialogue."Master of Arts (Visual Arts)
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Donald, Colin. "Quoting landscape : an investigative journey across the landscape of the Westen district of Victoria." University of Ballarat, 2004. http://archimedes.ballarat.edu.au:8080/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/14594.
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"This research project aims to provide a contemporary visualisation of "specific sites." The visualisation of these selected landscapes will draw upon and add to existing traditions of representation of this region, embedding my experiences within this dialogue."Master of Arts (Visual Arts)
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Bell, Pamela. "Art that never was : representations of the artist in twentieth-century Australian fiction." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/7310.
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This thesis traces the development of the artist figure as a leading character in twentieth-century Australian novels. In Australia there have always been complex interconnections between the worlds of art and literature, perhaps the most obvious being the cluster of artists and writers centred on the journal Vision, co-edited by Norman Lindsay’s son Jack with Kenneth Slessor, who was heavily influenced by Lindsay. Slessor’s poem “Five Bells”, an elegy for his artist friend Joe Lynch, later became the subject of a mural painted for Sydney Opera House by John Olsen. Although this and other connections between poetry and art are of interest, this thesis concentrates on fiction only.
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Sullivan, Joyce Lorraine, and mikewood@deakin edu au. "The revelationary art of Joyce Lorraine Sullivan :An artist's experience of her inner dimensions, an inner journey of discovery." Deakin University. School of Communication and Creative Arts, 2002. http://tux.lib.deakin.edu.au./adt-VDU/public/adt-VDU20060825.113351.
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Woodger, Jeff Robert University of Ballarat. "An inquiry into Suiboku and Kano School influences on Rococo and Romantic landscape painting through Claude Lorraine (1600-1682) and Salvator Rosa (1615-1673)." University of Ballarat, 2006. http://archimedes.ballarat.edu.au:8080/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/12791.
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"This research project examines the impact and influence of Chinese and Japanese ink landscape painting on the genre of Grand Manner Classical and Romantic landscape painting in Europe, from its beginnings as an independent genre in the 17th century. Specifically, the grand theme of woods and rivers will be investigated and its stylistic and philosophical relationship to Chinese and Japanese aesthetics demonstrated. The work examines how Far Eastern landscape painting conventions and techniques can be effectively acquired, and practically applied to painting in the manner of Classical and Romantic landscapes. [...]The aim of the investigation is to contribute to our deeper understanding of the genesis of this important style of artistic representation, and give fuller credit to the initiators of the technique and to those who realised its potential in the field of Western art."Doctor of Philosophy
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Woodger, Jeff Robert. "An inquiry into Suiboku and Kano School influences on Rococo and Romantic landscape painting through Claude Lorraine (1600-1682) and Salvator Rosa (1615-1673)." Thesis, University of Ballarat, 2006. http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/38512.
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"This research project examines the impact and influence of Chinese and Japanese ink landscape painting on the genre of Grand Manner Classical and Romantic landscape painting in Europe, from its beginnings as an independent genre in the 17th century. Specifically, the grand theme of woods and rivers will be investigated and its stylistic and philosophical relationship to Chinese and Japanese aesthetics demonstrated. The work examines how Far Eastern landscape painting conventions and techniques can be effectively acquired, and practically applied to painting in the manner of Classical and Romantic landscapes. [...]The aim of the investigation is to contribute to our deeper understanding of the genesis of this important style of artistic representation, and give fuller credit to the initiators of the technique and to those who realised its potential in the field of Western art."Doctor of Philosophy
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Woodger, Jeff Robert. "An inquiry into Suiboku and Kano School influences on Rococo and Romantic landscape painting through Claude Lorraine (1600-1682) and Salvator Rosa (1615-1673)." University of Ballarat, 2006. http://archimedes.ballarat.edu.au:8080/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/15614.
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"This research project examines the impact and influence of Chinese and Japanese ink landscape painting on the genre of Grand Manner Classical and Romantic landscape painting in Europe, from its beginnings as an independent genre in the 17th century. Specifically, the grand theme of woods and rivers will be investigated and its stylistic and philosophical relationship to Chinese and Japanese aesthetics demonstrated. The work examines how Far Eastern landscape painting conventions and techniques can be effectively acquired, and practically applied to painting in the manner of Classical and Romantic landscapes. [...]The aim of the investigation is to contribute to our deeper understanding of the genesis of this important style of artistic representation, and give fuller credit to the initiators of the technique and to those who realised its potential in the field of Western art."Doctor of Philosophy
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Millward, William H. "Beneath the surface : the role of intuition in the creative process." Thesis, View thesis, 1998. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/308.
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One question raised when creating, evaluating and appraising art work is 'How do we know what we know?' This exegesis attempts to answer this by establishing the important role intuitive knowledge plays in decision making in general, and within the author's own art practice specifically. The study reviews some of the literature on intuition from philosophical and psychological perspective in order to validate intuitive knowledge and intuitive decision making within contemporary art practice. However, just because intuition may drive the process, it does not mean that the product of intuitive practice is necessarily good or has any value. Consequently, the importance of aesthetics, and the values of integrity, honesty and truth are explored from a philosophical perspective. These are discussed in relation to the art practice of other artists from this century as well as that of the writer. Having constructed a philosophical framework to work within and be guided by, the final part of this study documents the development of the practical work and how this framework influences the art practice and the outcomes of that practice. It is hoped that the results of the study will reassert the validity and relevance of this form of art practice and philosophy within contemporary art practice.
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Blake, Kate M. "Drawing All the Way: The Confluence of Performance, Cultural Authority, and Colonial Encounters in the Painting of Rover Thomas." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1371721339.
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Carroll, Rachel Art College of Fine Arts UNSW. "What kind of relationship with nature does art provide?" Awarded by:University of New South Wales. Art, 2007. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/43308.
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The relationship with nature through art has been explored as a two fold bond. The first considers a relationship with nature via art and science, where the history and contemporary application of scientific illustration in art is explored; while the second explores past and present connections with nature via art and the landscape, particularly the panoramic tradition. Historically these relationships have predominately been about dominating nature, mans dominion over the land. Science was seen as the only authority, while our relationships with the land in art, positioned the viewer at a commanding distance above and over the land, as seen in the post colonial panoramic tradition. In contrast, -The Coorong Series- explores a lived history with nature rather than the historical role of dominance. -The Coorong Series" explores a relationship of knowledge, understanding, and the experience of nature; through two parts. The first combines art and science in -The Coorong Specimen Series', to explore the facts and knowledge that science has provided about certain plants, birds and marine life from the Coorong. Inspiration has been derived from 19thC scientific illustrations and the lyrical prints of the Coorong by Australian Artist John Olsen. Part two explores the immersive experience of the iconic landscape in ???The Coorong Landscape Series" providing a relationship that seeks to understand the functionality of the location and to celebrate the unique beauty of this diverse region. Inspiration has been gained from the landscapes by l8th and 19th C artists John Constable and Claude Monet, along with landscapes by contemporary artists, John Walker and Mandy Martin. Through aesthetic notions such as scientific illustration, panoramic landscape, immersive scale, the collection of work, an expressionistic use of paint, and labeling of each piece like a museum display. -The Coorong landscape series" provides an exploration of a region that immerses the viewer in an experience of the location. The series portrays a relationship with nature through art that educates the viewer about The Coorong region. Connections are made between the land, birds, plants, fish, and human interaction; which results in an ecological consideration of the Coorong. Ultimately it is the educational experience that art provides allowing the viewer to explore a plethora of relationships within nature, and to explore how these relationships have changed or continue to exist within this era.
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Millward, William H. "Beneath the surface : the role of intuition in the creative process /." View thesis, 1998. http://library.uws.edu.au/adt-NUWS/public/adt-NUWS20030902.102902/index.html.
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Fries, Katherine. "Ariadne's thread - memory, interconnection and the poetic in contemporary art." Connect to full text, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/5709.
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Thesis (M.V.A.)--University of Sydney, 2009.Title from title screen (viewed November 26, 2009) Submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Visual Arts to the Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney. Degree awarded 2009; thesis submitted 2008. Includes bibliographical references.
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O'Carroll, Anthony Terrrence Art College of Fine Arts UNSW. "'The history of matter painting in Australia'." Awarded by:University of New South Wales. Art, 2007. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/40467.
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The Master of Fine Art document examines the inception of Matter Painting as it occurred in Europe and it's following in Australia. This document recalls the history and process of this late assimilation through examining the development of abstraction in Australia and the local receptiveness of influence from abroad. Within a climate of increased immigration and international awareness, Matter Painting was encountered by an initiated few. This history firstly begins with practitioners that were not in locale but rather overseas who were in close proximity to the centre of such avant-garde. It is not until the artist and critic Elwyn Lynn returns from his seminal overseas travels in 1959 and his first showing of "Matter" painting's in 1960 that Matter Painting in Australia gathered momentum. Discussed within this document is the history of this movement, the impact that it had on local practitioners and the relevance that it has played within my practice.
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Gaskins, William G. "On the relationship between photography and painting in Australia, 1839-1900." Thesis, Gaskins, William G. (1991) On the relationship between photography and painting in Australia, 1839-1900. PhD thesis, Murdoch University, 1991. https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/52768/.
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The change from symbolism to imitative art in the late medieval period, and the confirmation of this in post- Renaissance art and art philosophy, served as a paradigm for painters until the mid nineteenth century. The pursuit of supreme objectivity in art, as seen through the camera obscura together with the questioning of the prevailing notions concerning the origins of natural phenomena, inevitably led to a reappraisal of what constituted 'beauty'. The birth of aesthetics endorsed the position of art as the most important medium of representation of the natural wilderness as the handiwork of the Creator but also confirmed the fallibility of the hand of man. Thus the concept of fixing the image of the camera obscura by a means other than drawing became an obsession at the turn of the nineteenth century and was resolved by the idea of 'sun-painting', 'heliography' or, as the first primitive, but workable, process was named, 'photogenic drawing'. The appearance of the first photographs sent a shock through the art community. If 'instant art' could be practised by anyone then the livelihood of artists was in jeopardy and it was necessary to reconsider what constituted 'good art'. But painters in particular saw advantages in the photograph as an 'objective copy' of Nature, one that could, itself, be copied at leisure, accurately. In this way problems of perspective, form, tone and detail were easily resolved. However, those practising the new medium began to adopt a semiosis of painting and photography became recognised not only as a new 'art' but also an art which, as a result of its indexical nature, in the Peircean sense, authenticated the subject. The utilitarian pragmatism of the early nineteenth-century colonist served to delay the introduction of photography to Australia until the process had been perfected, but it was then enthusiastically used to document progress, achievement and an environment which startled those 'back home'. However, the power of authentication surpassed representation and this enabled the unscrupulous to manipulate the photograph in order to exaggerate natural phenomena where this, in turn, served to heighten national pride in the new land. Thus the photograph became the tool of painters, illustrators and engravers in their efforts to authenticate fictionalised images of enterprise and production. But the introduction of photography had caused art critics to question the philosophy of verisimilitude in art and thus the epistemological basis of painting. Issues such as 'imagination' and the mediating role of the artist eventually challenged the post-Renaissance doctrine of imitation, but photography had already influenced painting irreversibly, not only through its use as a tool for painters, but also through the development of a 'photographic oeuvre' or style which was adopted by the first Australian 'school' of painting centred upon the artists' camps at Heidelberg in Victoria.
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Klaussner, Miriam. "An examination of communication across cultures in news media and at informal/personal levels : with concentration on relations among two South East Asian countries and Australia and those two countries and Germany." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2002.
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In the age of globalisation dominated by mass communication, the flow of information contributes to a big extent to the worldviews of its "global citizens".
From this point of view the mass media can be seen as one of the most salient sources of cross-cultural communication. This study investigates mass
communication across cultures, focusing on South East Asia (Malaysia and Singapore), Australia and Germany. The centre of attention is the Western media coverage of South East Asia and vice versa. In this context a content analysis of
newspapers of the three regions has been conducted. In addition, working practices and conditions of Western foreign correspondents in South East Asia have been
examined. Apart from the investigation of inter-cultural media coverage, another focus of attention will be the examination of two levels of communication: The business
level, concentrating on issues like e.g. the Asian business etiquette; and the private level, looking into the transition to a different culture from the perspective of Australian and German expatriates. Apart from investigating mass communication across cultures and to provide a written analysis of the findings, a series of radio documentaries in English and in German has been produced. They cover the following issues: Foreign correspondents in South East Asia, the expatriate-lifestyle of Australians and Germans in South East Asia, business etiquette in Asia, student exchange Germany-Asia, image and prejudices East-West and Tourism.
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Gray, Sarah Willard. "Abstracting from the landscape a sense of place /." Access electronically, 2008. http://ro.uow.edu.au/theses/147.
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Fozard, Roxanne. "Ghostcards of WA: An exhibition of oil paintings on linen – and – Repositioning the Denkbild: A painting investigation into deaths in custody in 21st century Western Australia: An exegesis." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2017. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/2155.
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Having a personal connection through several family members to the life and work of Ngaanyatjarra Elder Mr Ward, I found his death in custody in outback Western Australia unsettling and incomprehensible. As the circumstances of his death were revealed, I became aware of glaring omissions in the telling of his story and the circumstances that led to his death. Through my engagement with the subsequent media reporting, official documents and personal conversations, I recognised a profound lack of understanding of difference and otherness within a shared history and space in Western Australia. The initial aim of my project was to investigate the incomprehensible through the lens of Ngaanyatjarra Elder Mr Ward’s death; however, ethically, this proved a difficult path to negotiate. Through my research, I came to understand that the continued use of the dominant language of the coloniser, which is embedded in social practices and academic discourse is, in part, continuing to perpetuate white privilege. The ethical problems raised inspired me to develop an approach, which although oblique, would nevertheless enable fresh insight into otherness and difference in a multi-cultural society. The particular concern of this practice-led research project is not to exploit the trauma of others but to raise awareness of this social space through my work, giving rise to new understandings and possible relations.
This research gathered key texts from Walter Benjamin and Theodor Adorno, to facilitate the transfer of the written form of Denkbild, a literary device manipulating the codes of language to visualise the process of thought, into a painting practice. The Denkbild (thought-image) is a Euro-centric genre of exploratory philosophical writing, crafted in response to a society witnessing tremendous change as a result of the devastating impact of WWI and WWII. Through this creative project, the challenge was to re-activate the Denkbild through painting and accompanying text to investigate deaths in custody and interrogate the connected issues of ethics, politics and inequality, which is written into the shared spaces of Western Australia. The Denkbild is then developed further with the addition of Henri Lefebvre’s threedimensional spatial application of dialectical thinking and the creative practice of selected Australian artists. Through this addition, the binary dialectical framework of the Denkbild is expanded to reflect contemporary thinking on the concept of space as a social product. This perspective emerges to enable fresh insight into Aboriginal understandings of space as representing an ‘eternal now’, such that a mutual understanding of space is manifested. My painting practice reflects and informs this transition, as I moved from the painting studio to selected locations to record information and experiences that developed my research position.
To achieve the project’s aims, I engaged in reflexivity and praxis as the methodological tools to guide my research. Through painting, my research extended across interdisciplinary fields including visual arts practices, philosophical history and literature, to interrogate a spatial dynamic, revealing marginalised insights and connecting interrelationships between sites. For the purpose of this research, the paintings, exhibitions and exegesis function on two levels: as an avenue into mediation of Western Australian culture and as a methodological approach to visual art practice. My research culminated in the exhibition, Ghostcards of WA 2017 at the Spectrum Project Space, ECU, Mount Lawley. This project is significant as it renews the Denkbild to further the unique relationship between conceptual and representational categories that binds together experience, object and practice to form an interrogative tool for critical inquiry. In the application of this method to a Western Australian context, new thinking is encouraged through the inclusive reading of space and the collapsing of misunderstandings perpetuated in historicism through a shared recognition of the inherent value of space/sites which— far from being incomprehensible, reactive, nostalgic and solipsistic—are comprehensible, active, prescient, abundant and social.
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Eadie, Graham McLean. "Dissertation." Phd thesis, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/156371.
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Macneil, Roderick Peter. "Blackedout : the representation of Aboriginal people in Australian painting 1850-1900." 1999. http://repository.unimelb.edu.au/10187/1063.
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This thesis examines the representation of Aboriginal people in Australian painting between 1850 and 1900. In particular, the thesis discusses and seeks to account for the decline in the frequency with which Aboriginal people were represented in mainstream academic art in the decades preceding Australia’s Federation in 1901. In addition, this thesis investigates the ways in which a visual discourse of Aboriginality was realised in mid- and late nineteenth-century Australian painting.The figures of Aboriginal people formed a significant presence in Australian painting from the moment of first contact in the late eighteenth century until well into the nineteenth century. I argue that in paintings of the Australian landscape, as well as in portraiture and figure studies produced in the second half of the nineteenth century, images of Aboriginal people were used to signify the primordial difference of the antipodean landscape. In these paintings, Aboriginality emerged as a motif of Australia’s precolonial past: a timeless, arcadian realm that preceded European colonisation, and in which Aboriginal people enjoyed uncontested possession of the Australian landscape. This uncolonised landscape represented the antithesis of colonial civilisation, both spatially and temporally distinct from the colonial nation.
I argue that prior to Federation in 1901, Australian national identity was dependent upon the recognition and construction of a ‘difference’ that was seen to be implicit within the Australian landscape itself. This sense of difference derived from the settlers’ perception of the Australian environment, and became embodied in those objects which appeared most ‘different’ from settlers’ notion of the familiar. Colonial artists drew upon an iconography based upon this recognition of difference to signify the geographical identity of the landscape which they painted. Aboriginal people were central to these icons of ‘Australian-ness’. Further, the association of Aboriginal people with a precolonial Australia served to rationalise acts of colonial dispossession.
Representations of Aboriginal people dressed in a traditional manner, as well as those in which they are portrayed in European costume as ‘white but not quite’, underwrote colonial assertions of Aboriginal ‘primitiveness’ and precluded Aboriginal participation in the foundation of the Australian nation. The strengthening nationalist movement of the 1880s and 1890s meant that a new iconography was needed, one in which the triumph of the white settler culture over indigenous cultures could be celebrated. As a result, Aboriginal people began to disappear from the canvases of Australian artists, replaced by ‘white Aborigines’, who symbolised a new depth in the relationship between setter-Australia and the landscape itself. As well and more broadly, they were replaced by the image of the white frontiersman, the leitmotif of settler culture. This exclusion of Aboriginal people from the conceptualisation of the Australian nation reflects not only their ‘disenfranchisement’ within Australian society, but more significantly reveals the effectiveness with which a visual discourse of ‘Australia’ painted Aboriginal people out of existence.
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Crisp, Leeanne. "Report." Master's thesis, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/156389.
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Reuter, Emily. "Terra Incognita: the sublime, the uncanny and nostalgia in painting the landscape Australian." Thesis, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/805548.
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Masters Research - Master of Fine ArtThis paper is written in four parts: Melancholy and the Colonial in Australia, the Sublime with Aspects of the Picturesque, the Strange - Freud's Unheimlich, the Uncanny, and a journal on the author's travel through Central Australia. The above is explored and shown how they continue to shape Australian identity, the author's painting practices and that of other Australian artists.
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Smith, Avis Carol. "Changing fortunes: the history of China Painting in South Australia." 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2440/59391.
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This thesis addresses a gap in research regarding South Australian china painting. Although china painting has been practised in Australia for the last 120 years and is held in major Australian collections, it has been little researched and then in a minor role associated with ceramics and studio potters, or as women’s art/craft. The china painters too, have been little researched. My research identifies the three ‘highs’ of the changing fortunes of china painting, and how the practice survived in between. I argue that it was first taught in the city’s School of Design, Painting and Technical Art in 1894 as a skill for possible industrial employment, due to the initiative of School Principal, Harry Pelling Gill. However china painting classes were discontinued by 1897 due to an economic depression and the fact that the anticipated industry did not eventuate. In 1906 china painting classes were reinstituted in the (re-named) Adelaide School of Art and teacher Laurence Howie was pivotal in that revival. China painting classes ceased during the First World War while Howie served overseas in the Australian Forces, but resumed in 1923 after his return and appointment as Principal of the (renamed) School of Arts and Crafts. The resulting change in the fortunes of china painting was the outcome of the School’s appropriate training in art and design, and I argue this enabled emerging professional female artists to confidently exhibit china painting alongside their fine art. I will devote a chapter to the important role of the South Australian Society of Arts in facilitating this important public exposure of china painting. The Second World War marked a decline in popularity of china painting. Chapter 5 traces its survival till it burst into popularity again in 1965. Further chapters describe china painting’s following meteoric rise in fortune and the role played by the South Australian teachers of the art/craft, few of whom had received formal art training. I argue that china painting became a conservative social craft, but nonetheless a serious hobby, pursued by married, middle-class women who strongly believed their work was art, not craft. I will point out how they were visited and influenced by entrepreneurial American teachers, politically active in the art/craft debate in the United States of America. Chapter 8 will chart the steps taken by Australian teachers in the 1980s to break from the American influence and regain an Australian identity in teachers’ organisations and iconography. I will describe the debates that ensued following experimental work exhibited by avant-garde Australian teachers to resolve the art/craft debate regarding china painting in Australia, and the difficulties of maintaining china painting momentum as the majority of practitioners became elderly women. This thesis identifies education of the practitioners as a key factor throughout South Australian china painting history as a way of better understanding the place of china painting within the decorative arts. China painting is currently in decline; nevertheless, as I will point out in my conclusion, there are several future pathways it could take. Only within recent decades have curators and writers shown an increased interest in women’s decorative arts, including china painting. It is timely to undertake research before existing documentation of china painting is lost.http://proxy.library.adelaide.edu.au/login?url= http://library.adelaide.edu.au/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=1374281
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Watson, Christine. "Kuruwarri, the generative force : Balgo women's contemporary paintings and their relationship to traditional media." Master's thesis, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/144360.
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Schmidt, Chrischona. "'I paint for everyone' - the making of Utopia art." Phd thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/156288.
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At the core of this research is the history and development over the past four decades of the Utopia art movement in Central Australia. Initiated as an adult education programme teaching batik-making in the late 1970s it has since become nationally and internationally renowned. However, much of its history is not recorded, nor are the artworks and its records kept in a database entertained by a community art centre or similar institution. Despite this apparent lack of recording and documentation much has been written about the artworks as well as about some artists from Utopia. Critics engaging with art from Utopia praise it in terms of 'abstract', 'abstract expressionist', 'impressionistic' and even 'similar to European masters of the 20th century'. I question whether these similarities are a result of the close interaction with the art world and possibly even the reaction to the demands made on 'artists' to satisfy a certain prevailing taste in the arts? How do artists negotiate these market demands and their relationships with the art world? I argue that through close observation of artistic practices and negotiation processes between artists and art dealers, artists' agency can be uncovered. Throughout the history of the art movement artists have had to become their own agents in dealing with art dealers, wholesalers, curators and collectors. Being one's own agent in the art world might have a far greater influence on the art than has been discussed to date. Influences of art dealers, the art world, families, artists in the community, everyday life and the constraints associated with living in a remote community all affect the creation of artworks. By looking at the artworks through the framework of influence, similarities and differences in art from Utopia become apparent. The different currents and sub-currents found in Utopia art will be defined and described by means of a close formal analysis of the artworks. Combining this formal analysis with methods of new art history, such as qualitative interviews and observation of art practice, will reveal the influences and effects on artworks. Finally this examination of artworks and relationships in the art world will facilitate a better understanding of the emerging of local art movements, their development and their multi-layered histories. Furthermore it will give a point of comparison for further studies and research into Indigenous art histories throughout Australia. -- provided by Candidate.
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Eastburn, Melanie. "The living specimen : Guan Wei : a Chinese-Australian artist." Thesis, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/258500.
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This thesis focuses on the work and experience of Guan Wei. Guan Wei is a Chinese born artist now living and working in Australia. He is one of a number of mainland Chinese who came to live in Australia in the late 1989s and early 1990s. While there are certain commonalities between the experiences of these artists, I have concentrated on Guan Wei not merely as a case study for recent emigre Chinese artists in Australia, but because of his prominent place in Australian contemporary art.
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Hu, Lisa Chu-Ying. "Report." Master's thesis, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/156336.
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Barnes, John Robert. "Reconnection: an exploration of Australian landscape beyond history and myth." Thesis, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/929483.
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Research Doctorate - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)Reconnection - an Exploration of Australian Landscape Beyond History and Myth is an investigation into whether the materials and processes of landscape-focussed studio research, structured on an experiential foundation, can act as a portal of connection with nature for an arguably disconnected humanity. My direct experience of the land is central to Reconnection but the studio is the place where imagination and labour operated as complementary processes to produce the seven series of paintings that form the exhibition. The Australian landscape is the constant reference through which I have attempted to engage an audience with the ideas and emotions that underpin this visual exploration. This exegesis aims to establish the personal, philosophical, environmental, historic and intellectual background in which to position the exhibition. From within this context I explore notions of belonging and connection to place and by examining the conceptual and material particularities of each series, I have tried to reveal the framework on which they are constructed and how they inter-act to form a self-contained whole. Throughout Reconnection I have attempted to assess the continuing relevance of landscape painting within the plurality of contemporary art practice by examining and questioning its changing forms and focus within non-Indigenous Australian art since colonisation, as this is the testing ground for my works. This project is founded on my own experience and history and so to venture into the complexities of Indigenous artistic production with which I have had little direct personal involvement, is to go beyond its scope. Within this research and completed body of paintings I have sought to establish a point of connection between nature and a viewing audience while questioning the abilities of landscape painting to act as a communicative medium in the exchange of ideas and emotion.
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Clay, Trevelyan. "Studio report from Painting Workshop : The Trees On Your Mound." Thesis, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/155286.
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Shelley, Helen. "Studio report." Thesis, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/155826.
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