Risultati di ricerca
Joy Hester. Joy St Clair Hester (21 August 1920 – 4 December 1960) was an Australian artist. She was a member of the Angry Penguins movement and the Heide Circle who played an integral role in the development of Australian Modernism. [1] . Hester is best known for her bold and expressive ink drawings. [1] .
Biography. Although she was known for her association with John and Sunday Reed and the group of artists centred at the Reeds’ home, Heide, in 1940s Melbourne, Joy Hester was a significant Australian modernist artist in her own right and acclaimed for her highly expressionistic, personal drawings.
View all 37 artworks. Joy Hester lived in the XX cent., a remarkable figure of Australian Expressionism and Modernism. Find more works of this artist at Wikiart.org – best visual art database.
- Australian
- August 21, 1920
- Melbourne, Australia
- December 4, 1960
28 nov 2020 · This major survey exhibition celebrates the powerful work of Joy Hester, a unique figure in twentieth-century Australian art. Joy Hester produced some of the most distinctive and intriguing imagery to emerge in Australia during the 1940s and 1950s.
Joy Hester — AWARE. 1920 — 1960 | Melbourne, Australia. Australian visual artist and poet. The work of Joy Hester offers deeply personal insights into the complexities of love, identity and loss. She began her training in 1936 in a commercial art programme at Brighton Technical School.
2 lug 2020 · Joy Hester – a body of work, remembered at last. Published: July 2, 2020 2:29am EDT. – Joy Hester, 1947. So said artist Joy Hester, in words that were no doubt a response to dramatic...
Today Hester’s Lovers works are understood as the most significant of her career, and among the most evocative expressions of the psychological dimensions of human relationships ever created in Australian art.
