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28 nov 1992 · Sir Sidney Robert Nolan OM, AC, CBE was one of Australia's leading artists of the 20th century. Working in a wide variety of mediums, his oeuvre is among the most diverse and prolific in all of modern art. He is best known for his series of paintings on legends from Australian history, most famously Ned Kelly, the bushranger and outlaw.
Sidney Robert Nolan, OM (Melbourne, 22 de abril de 1917-Londres, Inglaterra; 28 de noviembre de 1992) fue un pintor australiano, artista de gran versatilidad, que desarrolló una innovadora línea iconográfica inspirada a menudo en la historia y las viejas tradiciones de su Australia natal. Pasó una gran parte de su vida en Gran Bretaña.
Sidney Nolan. b. 1917 — 1992. Painter Sidney Nolan is one of the most significant and celebrated figures in Australian art. During the 1940s, he was a member of the influential Melbourne Heide Circle, with Albert Tucker, John Perceval and Joy Hester. His iconic suite of Ned Kelly paintings completed during his time at Heide, are among the ...
The Sidney Nolan Trust is a charity set up by Nolan himself in 1985 to fulfil his ambition of creating a place to exchange ideas, develop practice and further artistic endeavour in a historic, rural setting, The Rodd, Presteigne, UK.
Sidney Nolan In 1961, Sidney Nolan told the writer Colin MacInnes that the main ingredients of the ‘Kelly’ series were ‘Kelly’s own words, and Rousseau, and sunlight’.[1] This characteristically pithy one-liner sums up the engagement with Australian history, Australian landscape and European modern art that led Nolan to create these iconic paintings.
Sidney Nolan began his career in Melbourne in 1938 at the age of 21, a largely self-taught, consciously determined innovator. Work by Picasso, Cézanne, Rousseau, Matisse and van Gogh that he saw in the 1939 Herald exhibition of French and British contemporary art at the Melbourne Town Hall profoundly affected his visual imagination.
27 mar 2017 · Sidney Nolan catapulted to fame with paintings of his homeland’s outlaws and rebels – and during his 40-year stay in the UK, he enchanted the British elite with them, too.
