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Biography. One of the great 20th century painters of the Antipodes, and the embodiment of Australian modern painting, Sir George Russell Drysdale was the artist whose landscape painting and edgy genre painting came closest to revealing the desolate, inhospitable nature of the Australian interior, and the utter despair brought on by unrelenting ...
28 giu 2021 · Forty years ago, artist Sir Russell Drysdale died, aged 69. For more than two decades Drysdale impressed into the Australian consciousness a strong, idiosyncratic image of the Australian outback.
Russell Drysdale (1912–1981) Government Art Collection. (b Bognor Regis, Sussex, 7 Feb. 1912; d Sydney, 29 June 1981). Australian painter of English birth. His family had owned land in Australia since the 1820s and he spent several years of his childhood there. The family settled in Melbourne in 1923 and in the late 1930s Drysdale gave up ...
Russell Drysdale’s landscapes are shaped by the vast, silent gravity of the Australian outback. The central concerns of his work are: the figure in the landscape; the isolation experienced in rural Australia; and the desolation after a disaster, as can be seen in Bush fire. Drysdale himself said that the landscape ‘only becomes really interesting with …
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1 gen 2015 · 71 minutes. James Gleeson interviews Sir Russell Drysdale. 19 October 1978. In the 1970s, leading surrealist painter Dr James Gleeson AO ventured into the studios of 98 Australian artists to discuss their works that had been acquired by the Gallery. As an artist, curator and writer, Gleeson brought a deeply thoughtful and personal perspective ...
This work is one of Russell Drysdale’s most celebrated paintings and amongst the most frequently reproduced images of twentieth century Australian art. Based on the Royal Hotel at Seymour on the ...
