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4 dic 2021 · Developed by TarraWarra Museum of Art, Sidney Nolan: Myth Rider brings together more than 100 works by Sidney Nolan from the period 1955–1966, during which the artist grappled with the subject of the Trojan War, its parallels with the Gallipoli campaign, and its origins in the myth of Leda and the Swan. Throughout these interconnected series, Nolan […]
Sidney Nolan studierte Kunst an der National Gallery Art School in Melbourne. Er war ein guter Freund der Kunstkritiker und -förderer John Reed und Sunday Reed und gilt als einer der führenden Köpfe der Künstlergruppe „ Heide Circle “, zu denen auch Albert Tucker , Joy Hester , Arthur Boyd und John Perceval gehörten.
This distinctive head/tree shape is one that Nolan reinvented continually over his long career: as the ‘original’ painting Boy and the moon (later named Moonboy by Nolan’s patron, lover and muse Sunday Reed), first exhibited at the 2nd Annual Contemporary Art Society exhibition in 1940; in the lyrical series of ‘figure and tree’ works of 1941, including Woman and tree (or Garden of ...
Sidney NolanIn 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 is the first retrospective exhibition to be mounted since the artist’s death in 1992 and includes a selection of his most important masterpieces. The exhibition examines each critical period in the artist’s career and highlights the evolution of Nolan’s vision from its genesis in St Kilda during the late 1930s, to the United Kingdom half a century later when the artist ...
Sidney NolanIn 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.
Sir Sidney Nolan AC OM CBE (1917–1992) was one of the most original and inventive Australian artists of the postwar decades, and one of few Australian artists to achieve an international reputation in the twentieth century. Born in Melbourne, Nolan studied at the National Gallery of Victoria's School of Art in 1934 and 1936. Beginning his career as a commercial artist in the 1930s, from 1938 ...
