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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...

Read Abstract art Journal Entries - Page 5   (website RedBubble )

Thanks Linaji and TeriLee for featuring my work in the Abstract Art and Writing group! Featured work in ABSTRACT DIGITAL ART AND WRITING.... My peice Flower Mandala is featured in the ABSTRACT DIGITAL ART AND WRITING group!!!! ...

Find Bold colour Art, Photography, T-Shirts & Wall Art at RedBubble   (website RedBubble )

Leilani at Sea was created on textured canvas paper using an array of mediums including ink, pastel, acrylics and charcoal. Digitally readjusted photograph using PSP2 and reproduced in Acrylics on 40.ó30cm 300gsm canvas texture acid-free acrylic paper. S...

Find Bold colourful Art, Photography, T-Shirts & Wall Art at RedBubble   (website RedBubble )

Leilani at Sea was created on textured canvas paper using an array of mediums including ink, pastel, acrylics and charcoal. Digitally readjusted photograph using PSP2 and reproduced in Acrylics on 40.ó30cm 300gsm canvas texture acid-free acrylic paper. S...

95/109/1 Archive, design, Fred Ward, Australia, 1947-1988 - Powerhouse Museum Collection   (website Powerhouse Museum )

Documents > Design archives>>+ 90/724 Archive, sketch book and design d... > + 2006/135/1 Archive, Industrial Design Co... > + 2003/44/1 Archive, graphic design, wood ... > + 97/332/1 Archive, design, Roger McLay, A...> + 98/180/1 Archive, business and de...

Art Right Now2 - ArtStud   (website Art Right Now )

>Published Friday, April 05, 2002>In Parallel Visions, currently on display at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, 250 works by 22 significant Australian artists have been moved out of storage to the public gallery walls via the conservation lab. >The ad...

AA - OBITUARY - July/August 2005   (website Architecture Media )

AN IMPORTANT EARLY AUSTRALIAN MODERNIST, JACK MCCONNELL WAS AN RAIA GOLD MEDALLIST, INSTITUTE PRESIDENT AND WINNER OF MANY AWARDS. ARCHITECTS AND FRIENDS of Jack McConnell (known to his close friends as ôMacö) attended a function hosted by the RAIA South...

AA - HEADLINES - May/June 2007   (website Architecture Media )

Participating practices in the exhibition Out from Under: Australian Architecture Now, curated by Anthony Burke for the San Francisco Chapter of the American Institute of Architects, included Tony Owen NDM, Terroir, Dale Jones-Evans, McBride Charles Ryan,...

Seraphine | Filmink Review   (website Filmink )

The leads are likeable but the compression of the novel to film doesn´t satisfy the passionate love at the heart of the story. Seraphine is, rather, a truly remarkable film about the life of an incredibly interesting woman. The film also cleaned up at the...

ARTS alive   (website Arts Alive - arts and culture current affairs around Australia ... for the world )

Originally know as the Union Theatre Repertory Company, Sumner founded the company at the University of Melbourne in 1953. And Heide Museum and Arts Gallery, once the home of art patrons John and Sunday Reid, has appointed Jason Smith to replace Leslie Al...

ARTS ALIVE   (website Arts Alive - arts and culture current affairs around Australia ... for the world )

Hi and welcome to Arts Alive, your weekly arts and culture current affairs radio... we speak with the co-editor of the recently published book of John Reed? APRA Details: Opening Theme: "Same like B3" / d.i.g. / d.i.g. / CP / 5285392 / 20 sec. Sting: Trac...

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...

Paperchain Bookstore Manuka Online   (website Paperchain Bookstore )

<a href="http://www.paperchainbookstore.com.au/PaperchainBookStore/search.cfm?UR=BI113911&amp;search_stage=details&amp;records_to_display=1" title="Lenz, Millicent, Scott, Carole "His Dark Materials" Illuminated"> <a href="http://www.paperchainbookstore.c...

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