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Australian Eye Series, The Australian Impressionists, 1888-1896
directed by David Muir, fl. 1984; produced by Malcolm Otton, fl. 1975, in Australian Eye Series (Acton, Australian Capital Territory: Australia. National Film and Sound Archive, 1984), 1 hour 6 mins
This Australian Eye episode looks at the following artists and their work: Charles Conder and his painting 'A Holiday at Mentone' (1888), Tom Roberts and his paintings ' The Breakaway' (1890-91) and 'Shearing the Rams' (1890), Arthur Streeton's painting 'Fire's On, Lapstone Tunnel' (1891), David Davies and his wor...
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directed by David Muir, fl. 1984; produced by Malcolm Otton, fl. 1975, in Australian Eye Series (Acton, Australian Capital Territory: Australia. National Film and Sound Archive, 1984), 1 hour 6 mins
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This Australian Eye episode looks at the following artists and their work: Charles Conder and his painting 'A Holiday at Mentone' (1888), Tom Roberts and his paintings ' The Breakaway' (1890-91) and 'Shearing the Rams' (1890), Arthur Streeton's painting 'Fire's On, Lapstone Tunnel' (1891), David Davies and his work 'Moonrise, Templestowe' (1894) and Frederick McCubbin and his painting 'On The Wallaby Track' (1896).
Field of Study
Art & Architecture
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Malcolm Otton, fl. 1975
Author / Creator
David Muir, fl. 1984
Date Published / Released
1984
Publisher
Australia. National Film and Sound Archive
Series
Australian Eye Series
Topic / Theme
Australian, Fine arts, Visual artists, Australians
Copyright Message
A Film Australia National Interest Program. Copyright © 2011 National Film and Sound Archive of Australia.
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Australian Eye Series, Contemporary Painting, 1950-1979
directed by David Muir, fl. 1984; produced by Malcolm Otton, fl. 1975, in Australian Eye Series (Acton, Australian Capital Territory: Australia. National Film and Sound Archive, 1990), 1 hour
This Australian Eye episode looks at the work of a group of Australian painters during the period 1950-1979. The following paintings are examined: 'The Harbour From McMahon's Point' (1950) by Lloyd Rees, 'Epiphany' (1962) by Ian Fairweather, 'Self Portrait in the Studio' (1976) by Brett Whiteley, 'Truck and Traile...
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directed by David Muir, fl. 1984; produced by Malcolm Otton, fl. 1975, in Australian Eye Series (Acton, Australian Capital Territory: Australia. National Film and Sound Archive, 1990), 1 hour
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This Australian Eye episode looks at the work of a group of Australian painters during the period 1950-1979. The following paintings are examined: 'The Harbour From McMahon's Point' (1950) by Lloyd Rees, 'Epiphany' (1962) by Ian Fairweather, 'Self Portrait in the Studio' (1976) by Brett Whiteley, 'Truck and Trailer Heading into a City' (1973) by Jeffrey Smart and 'Waterfall Polyptych' (1979) by Fred Williams.
Field of Study
Art & Architecture
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Malcolm Otton, fl. 1975
Author / Creator
David Muir, fl. 1984
Date Published / Released
1990
Publisher
Australia. National Film and Sound Archive
Series
Australian Eye Series
Topic / Theme
Australian, Fine arts, Visual artists, Australians
Copyright Message
A Film Australia National Interest Program. Copyright © 2011 National Film and Sound Archive of Australia.
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Australia's Heritage: National Treasures, Episode 2, Francis de Groote Sword
directed by Matthew Thomason, fl. 2007-2012; produced by Hugh Piper, fl. 1979-2012, in Australia's Heritage: National Treasures, Episode 2 (Australia: Australia. National Film and Sound Archive, 2009), 6 mins
When right-wing agitator Francis De Groot upstaged the 1932 opening of the Sydney Harbour Bridge and sliced through the ceremonial ribbon, the antique sword he wielded cemented its place as an Australian national treasure. Part of a monarchist militia called the New Guard, Irish-born De Groot was protesting about...
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directed by Matthew Thomason, fl. 2007-2012; produced by Hugh Piper, fl. 1979-2012, in Australia's Heritage: National Treasures, Episode 2 (Australia: Australia. National Film and Sound Archive, 2009), 6 mins
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When right-wing agitator Francis De Groot upstaged the 1932 opening of the Sydney Harbour Bridge and sliced through the ceremonial ribbon, the antique sword he wielded cemented its place as an Australian national treasure. Part of a monarchist militia called the New Guard, Irish-born De Groot was protesting about a perceived communist push led by working-class hero and nationalist NSW Premier Jack Lang. The ribbon was retied and cut by Lang, but...
When right-wing agitator Francis De Groot upstaged the 1932 opening of the Sydney Harbour Bridge and sliced through the ceremonial ribbon, the antique sword he wielded cemented its place as an Australian national treasure. Part of a monarchist militia called the New Guard, Irish-born De Groot was protesting about a perceived communist push led by working-class hero and nationalist NSW Premier Jack Lang. The ribbon was retied and cut by Lang, but the story didn't end there. A lengthy court battle followed, which resulted in De Groot being found guilty and fined 5 pounds for trespassing. He immediately counter-sued for wrongful arrest and was awarded compensation. The legal battle established that De Groot, not Lang, had legally opened the bridge, which is now included in the National Heritage List. His sword is held by a private collector.
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Field of Study
Art & Architecture
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Hugh Piper, fl. 1979-2012, Chris Taylor, 1974-
Author / Creator
Matthew Thomason, fl. 2007-2012
Date Published / Released
2009
Publisher
Australia. National Film and Sound Archive
Series
Australia's Heritage: National Treasures
Speaker / Narrator
Chris Taylor, 1974-
Person Discussed
Jack Lang, 1876-1975, Francis de Groot, 1888-1969
Topic / Theme
Trials and litigation, Australian people, Swords, Political and Social Movements, Australians
Copyright Message
Copyright © 2015 by the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia
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Constructing Australia, A Wire Through The Heart
directed by Darcy Yuille, fl. 1999-2014, in Constructing Australia (Acton, Australian Capital Territory: Australia. National Film and Sound Archive, 2007), 55 mins
The story of the struggle to cross a vast continent and build the telegraph line that would bring Australia to the world and the world to Australia. In the mid 1800s Australia was a land isolated by distance and divided between two very different cultures. John McDouall Stuart, a migrant from Scotland, was determi...
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directed by Darcy Yuille, fl. 1999-2014, in Constructing Australia (Acton, Australian Capital Territory: Australia. National Film and Sound Archive, 2007), 55 mins
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The story of the struggle to cross a vast continent and build the telegraph line that would bring Australia to the world and the world to Australia. In the mid 1800s Australia was a land isolated by distance and divided between two very different cultures. John McDouall Stuart, a migrant from Scotland, was determined to cross the centre of Australia and reach the north coast. His success would pave the way for a communications revolution. Charles...
The story of the struggle to cross a vast continent and build the telegraph line that would bring Australia to the world and the world to Australia. In the mid 1800s Australia was a land isolated by distance and divided between two very different cultures. John McDouall Stuart, a migrant from Scotland, was determined to cross the centre of Australia and reach the north coast. His success would pave the way for a communications revolution. Charles Todd had dreamt of constructing a telegraph line through the heart of the continent and in Stuart he found the man who could prove the inhospitable centre could be crossed. The telegraph's construction heralded the start of a new communications era every bit as revolutionary as the internet. News from overseas arrived in hours rather than months, securing Adelaide's position as the centre for early colonial communications. It made Todd a hero, but Stuart, the man who made it possible, was destroyed by the hardships he had endured and died in obscurity.
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Field of Study
Art & Architecture
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Wendy Hughes, 1952-2014
Author / Creator
Darcy Yuille, fl. 1999-2014
Date Published / Released
2007
Publisher
Australia. National Film and Sound Archive
Series
Constructing Australia
Speaker / Narrator
Wendy Hughes, 1952-2014
Person Discussed
Charles Todd, 1826-1910, John McDouall Stuart, 1815-1866
Topic / Theme
Australian, Rivalry, Telegraph, Australians
Copyright Message
Developed with the assistance of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and the BBC. Produced with the assistance of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. A Film Australia Making History Production in association with Piper Films and the South Australian Film Corporation. Copyright © 2011 National Film and Sound Archive of Australia.
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The Fifth Façade
directed by Donald Crombie, 1942-; produced by Anthony Buckley, 1937- (Canberra, Australian Capital Territory: Australia. National Film and Sound Archive, 2011), 27 mins
The Sydney Opera House is one of the most identifiable of Australia's icons and is considered by many to be among the great architectural masterpieces. Its entire construction period was recorded on film. The Fifth Facade documents the history of this striking and imaginative building, from the selection of the si...
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directed by Donald Crombie, 1942-; produced by Anthony Buckley, 1937- (Canberra, Australian Capital Territory: Australia. National Film and Sound Archive, 2011), 27 mins
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The Sydney Opera House is one of the most identifiable of Australia's icons and is considered by many to be among the great architectural masterpieces. Its entire construction period was recorded on film. The Fifth Facade documents the history of this striking and imaginative building, from the selection of the site at Bennelong Point to the official opening. The commentary of Jorn Utzon, the Danish architect who won the worldwide competition for...
The Sydney Opera House is one of the most identifiable of Australia's icons and is considered by many to be among the great architectural masterpieces. Its entire construction period was recorded on film. The Fifth Facade documents the history of this striking and imaginative building, from the selection of the site at Bennelong Point to the official opening. The commentary of Jorn Utzon, the Danish architect who won the worldwide competition for the original building design, offers insights into the unique structural and aesthetic problems that had to be solved to make his vision a reality.
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Field of Study
Art & Architecture
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Anthony Buckley, 1937-, Sam Wanamaker, 1919-1993
Author / Creator
Donald Crombie, 1942-
Date Published / Released
1973, 2011
Publisher
Australia. National Film and Sound Archive
Speaker / Narrator
Jørn Utzon, 1918-2008, Sam Wanamaker, 1919-1993
Person Discussed
Jørn Utzon, 1918-2008
Topic / Theme
Concert halls, Architects, Architecture
Copyright Message
A Film Australia production. Copyright © 2011 National Film and Sound Archive of Australia
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Hidden Treasures - Inside the National Gallery of Australia, Natalia Goncharova and Alexandra Exter
directed by John Hughes, fl. 1975; produced by John Hughes, fl. 1975, in Hidden Treasures - Inside the National Gallery of Australia (Canberra, Australian Capital Territory: Australia. National Film and Sound Archive, 2006), 6 mins
The Ballet Russe attracted artists to Paris from all over Europe but particularly from Russia. The impresario, Serge Diaghilev, had been barred from employment in any service to the Russian Crown after falling out with the Imperial Theatre in St Petersburg. Instead, he dedicated his talents to promoting the arts o...
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directed by John Hughes, fl. 1975; produced by John Hughes, fl. 1975, in Hidden Treasures - Inside the National Gallery of Australia (Canberra, Australian Capital Territory: Australia. National Film and Sound Archive, 2006), 6 mins
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The Ballet Russe attracted artists to Paris from all over Europe but particularly from Russia. The impresario, Serge Diaghilev, had been barred from employment in any service to the Russian Crown after falling out with the Imperial Theatre in St Petersburg. Instead, he dedicated his talents to promoting the arts of Russia outside Russia and introducing the Russian avant-garde to Paris. Among the first he lured there was Natalia Goncharova.
The c...
The Ballet Russe attracted artists to Paris from all over Europe but particularly from Russia. The impresario, Serge Diaghilev, had been barred from employment in any service to the Russian Crown after falling out with the Imperial Theatre in St Petersburg. Instead, he dedicated his talents to promoting the arts of Russia outside Russia and introducing the Russian avant-garde to Paris. Among the first he lured there was Natalia Goncharova.
The costumes she designed for his ballet Le Coq D’Or—now in the National Gallery of Australia’s collection—were exactly what he wanted. The saturated colours and bold designs became the trademark of his performances.
While other European modernists were looking to alternative traditions for their inspiration, to what they referred to as the “primitive” art of Africa and Oceania, Goncharova drew on her own. She looked to early Russian religious icons and folk art.
Around the time that Goncharova left Russia, Alexandra Exter was returning, keen to participate in the Bolshevik experiment of 1917. She too loved theatre design, believing it to be the most democratic and inclusive of the arts. However, her costumes were inspired by the abstract geometry of revolutionary Russian constructivism.
Among her work preserved in the National Gallery is her costume design for a Martian guard in the 1924 science-fiction film Aelita–The Queen of Mars, and two marionettes that were to take the place of actors in another silent film, where they were intended to epitomise the commercialism of streetlife in New York.
Although Exter died in poverty and obscurity in 1949, she still had the two marionettes with her, preserved as fond memories of her first flush of enthusiasm for the new order—a symbol of the optimism of those early days of the Russian Revolution.
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Field of Study
Art & Architecture
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
John Hughes, fl. 1975, Betty Churcher, 1931-2015
Author / Creator
John Hughes, fl. 1975
Date Published / Released
2006
Publisher
Australia. National Film and Sound Archive
Series
Hidden Treasures - Inside the National Gallery of Australia
Speaker / Narrator
Betty Churcher, 1931-2015
Person Discussed
Alexandra Exter, 1882-1949, Natalii︠a︡ Sergeevna Goncharova, 1881-1962
Topic / Theme
Theatrical design, Costume design, Artists, Avant-garde, Russians
Copyright Message
A Film Australia National Interest Program in association with Early Works. Produced with the assistance of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Copyright © 2011 National Film and Sound Archive of Australia.
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Hidden Treasures - Inside the National Gallery of Australia, Violet Teague and Jessie Traill
directed by John Hughes, fl. 1975; produced by John Hughes, fl. 1975, in Hidden Treasures - Inside the National Gallery of Australia (Canberra, Australian Capital Territory: Australia. National Film and Sound Archive, 2006), 6 mins
During the first two decades of the 20th century there was a spirit of emancipation among Australian women. Many now saw art as a viable career, enrolling in art schools across the country.
Violet Teague and her friend Jessie Traill were part of a remarkable group of financially independent, middle-class women wh...
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directed by John Hughes, fl. 1975; produced by John Hughes, fl. 1975, in Hidden Treasures - Inside the National Gallery of Australia (Canberra, Australian Capital Territory: Australia. National Film and Sound Archive, 2006), 6 mins
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During the first two decades of the 20th century there was a spirit of emancipation among Australian women. Many now saw art as a viable career, enrolling in art schools across the country.
Violet Teague and her friend Jessie Traill were part of a remarkable group of financially independent, middle-class women who never married, allowing them to devote their lives to art. From an early age both women travelled regularly overseas, which put them...
During the first two decades of the 20th century there was a spirit of emancipation among Australian women. Many now saw art as a viable career, enrolling in art schools across the country.
Violet Teague and her friend Jessie Traill were part of a remarkable group of financially independent, middle-class women who never married, allowing them to devote their lives to art. From an early age both women travelled regularly overseas, which put them in touch with international trends.
Jessie Traill’s hand-coloured aquatint The Red Light, Harbour Bridge, June 1931 shifts the emphasis of etching from the intimate to the dramatic. It owes more to the etching revival in Europe than the brightly coloured wood and lino block prints popular in Australia in the 1930s.
Violet Teague’s handprinted children’s book Nightfall in Ti-Tree, which she made with Geraldine Rede in 1905, uses handmade recycled paper made to look like Japanese mulberry paper and Japanese methods of binding and applying water-based ink with a brush. Even the asymmetrical placement of objects on the page is Japanese.
In 1920, Teague’s portrait The Boy with the Palette was exhibited in the Paris Salon, where it won a silver medal, and in the following year it attracted acclaim at an exhibition at the Royal Academy of London. It’s a splendid painting, equal to any portrait painted in Australia before World War One, and Traill’s etchings too hold their own. So why are both artists seldom mentioned in the story of Australian art?
Perhaps because they were women, but more likely because Teague interrupted her career to look after an ailing father. And also because the independence of both women enabled them regular trips abroad, which meant they were more in touch with artists and art movements there than at home.
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Field of Study
Art & Architecture
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
John Hughes, fl. 1975, Betty Churcher, 1931-2015
Author / Creator
John Hughes, fl. 1975
Date Published / Released
2006
Publisher
Australia. National Film and Sound Archive
Series
Hidden Treasures - Inside the National Gallery of Australia
Speaker / Narrator
Betty Churcher, 1931-2015
Person Discussed
Jessie Constance Alicia Traill, 1881-, Violet Teague, 1872-1951
Topic / Theme
International travel, Visual artists, Women's movement, Australians
Copyright Message
A Film Australia National Interest Program in association with Early Works. Produced with the assistance of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Copyright © 2011 National Film and Sound Archive of Australia.
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Hidden Treasures - Inside the National Library of Australia, Figure in the Landscape
directed by John Hughes, fl. 1975; produced by John Hughes, fl. 1975, in Hidden Treasures - Inside the National Library of Australia (Canberra, Australian Capital Territory: Australia. National Film and Sound Archive, 2008), 6 mins
John Glover revolutionised his art and became one of Australia's finest landscape artists after arriving in Tasmania at the age of 64 in 1831. A good English landscape painter, Glover became an outstanding Australian landscape painter when he turned his eye to an unfamiliar environment to produce the best works of...
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directed by John Hughes, fl. 1975; produced by John Hughes, fl. 1975, in Hidden Treasures - Inside the National Library of Australia (Canberra, Australian Capital Territory: Australia. National Film and Sound Archive, 2008), 6 mins
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John Glover revolutionised his art and became one of Australia's finest landscape artists after arriving in Tasmania at the age of 64 in 1831. A good English landscape painter, Glover became an outstanding Australian landscape painter when he turned his eye to an unfamiliar environment to produce the best works of his career. Glover's private sketchbooks show he was appalled by the atrocities he saw committed against the Aboriginal people and was...
John Glover revolutionised his art and became one of Australia's finest landscape artists after arriving in Tasmania at the age of 64 in 1831. A good English landscape painter, Glover became an outstanding Australian landscape painter when he turned his eye to an unfamiliar environment to produce the best works of his career. Glover's private sketchbooks show he was appalled by the atrocities he saw committed against the Aboriginal people and was eager to portray them in the idyllic world he imagined they had once enjoyed. What he saw transformed him from a purely landscape painter into a figure in the landscape - a considerable departure for a man in late career.
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Field of Study
Art & Architecture
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
John Hughes, fl. 1975, Betty Churcher, 1931-2015
Author / Creator
John Hughes, fl. 1975
Date Published / Released
2008
Publisher
Australia. National Film and Sound Archive
Series
Hidden Treasures - Inside the National Library of Australia
Speaker / Narrator
Betty Churcher, 1931-2015
Person Discussed
John Glover, 1767-1849
Topic / Theme
Atrocities, Visual artists, Australian aboriginal people, Americans
Copyright Message
A Film Australia National Interest Program in association with Early Works. Produced in association with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. With special thanks to the National Library of Australia. Copyright © 2011 National Film and Sound Archive of Australia.
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Human Contraptions, Art
directed by Bruce Petty, 1929-, in Human Contraptions (Canberra, Australian Capital Territory: Australia. National Film and Sound Archive, 2002), 6 mins
The first time a human did something not work related, minds opened and imaginations soared. Attracted by the lack of effort art required, soon everybody was trying to do it so a serious French philosophy team was installed to decide what the art contraption was really supposed to do. Finally, business stepped in...
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directed by Bruce Petty, 1929-, in Human Contraptions (Canberra, Australian Capital Territory: Australia. National Film and Sound Archive, 2002), 6 mins
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The first time a human did something not work related, minds opened and imaginations soared. Attracted by the lack of effort art required, soon everybody was trying to do it so a serious French philosophy team was installed to decide what the art contraption was really supposed to do. Finally, business stepped in and now anything, properly marketed, can be art for 15 minutes.
Field of Study
Art & Architecture
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Andrew Denton, fl. 2002
Author / Creator
Bruce Petty, 1929-
Date Published / Released
2002
Publisher
Australia. National Film and Sound Archive
Series
Human Contraptions
Speaker / Narrator
Andrew Denton, fl. 2002
Topic / Theme
Artists, Imagination, Visual art
Copyright Message
A Film Australia National Interest Program. Produced with the assistance of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
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Matisse and Islam
directed by John Hughes, fl. 1975; produced by Philippa Campey, fl. 2005 and John Hughes, fl. 1975 (Canberra, Australian Capital Territory: Australia. National Film and Sound Archive, 2011), 6 mins
Islamic art was a major inspiration for French artist Henri Matisse, who discovered its opulent colours and interdependent shapes in a visit to the textile bazaars of Morocco in 1912. Descended from weavers himself, Matisse was supremely confident with scissors and when illness confined him to bed in his 70s, he t...
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directed by John Hughes, fl. 1975; produced by Philippa Campey, fl. 2005 and John Hughes, fl. 1975 (Canberra, Australian Capital Territory: Australia. National Film and Sound Archive, 2011), 6 mins
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Islamic art was a major inspiration for French artist Henri Matisse, who discovered its opulent colours and interdependent shapes in a visit to the textile bazaars of Morocco in 1912. Descended from weavers himself, Matisse was supremely confident with scissors and when illness confined him to bed in his 70s, he took to cutting shapes from coloured paper and fixing them to the wall of his room. A rare screenprint of this first cutout work, Oceani...
Islamic art was a major inspiration for French artist Henri Matisse, who discovered its opulent colours and interdependent shapes in a visit to the textile bazaars of Morocco in 1912. Descended from weavers himself, Matisse was supremely confident with scissors and when illness confined him to bed in his 70s, he took to cutting shapes from coloured paper and fixing them to the wall of his room. A rare screenprint of this first cutout work, Oceania, the Sky, inspired by the Tahitian islands, is preserved in the National Gallery of Australia along with a folio of circus-inspired paper cutouts called Jazz that he created the following year.
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Field of Study
Art & Architecture
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Philippa Campey, fl. 2005, John Hughes, fl. 1975, Betty Churcher, 1931-2015
Author / Creator
John Hughes, fl. 1975
Date Published / Released
2006, 2011
Publisher
Australia. National Film and Sound Archive
Speaker / Narrator
Betty Churcher, 1931-2015
Person Discussed
Henry Matisse, 1869-1954
Topic / Theme
Visual art, Visual artists
Copyright Message
A Film Australia National Interest Program in association with Early Works. Produced with the assistance of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Copyright © 2011 National Film and Sound Archive of Australia.
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