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STREETON, Sir Arthur
OBLIVION |
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CS 150 - Card |
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$4.95 |
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Oblivion may have been inspired by Tennyson's poem The Lotus Eaters. Streeton wrote of it, ''I was living with (the late) Tom Roberts in our tents at Sirius Cove at the time the picture was painted. We posed a model in our studio for the students of our class to study from: and I did my picture while they made their studies''.
Arthur Ernest Streeton, nicknamed, 'Smike' was born at Mt. Duneed, near
Geelong in Victoria on 8th April 1867. He studied drawing at the
National Gallery School while at the same time he was apprenticed to a
lithographer. Tom Roberts and Frederick McCubbin discovered him
painting at Beaumaris, and together with Charles Conder they went on
sketching camps to Box Hill, Mentone and Eaglemont, near Heidelberg.
In 1899 they held the inaugural 5'' x 7'' Impressionist Exhibition
in Melbourne.
In 1890 they moved from Melbourne to Little Sirius Cove
in Sydney where many of the works they created were purchased by the Art Gallery of
New South Wales.
Seeking wider experience Streeton sailed for London
in 1898 and while living in Chelsea he painted impressions of London
and the Thames. Returning to Melbourne in 1906, he held a very
successful exhibition and sent paintings to Europe and America where he
received considerable critical recognition.
During World War I, Streeton was commissioned as an official War Artist
in France and became a strong influence in creating a distinctive
Australian school of landscape and still life painters - the Heidelberg School.
He maintained a high public profile and was knighted in 1937. Finally
he settled down in the lush greenery of Olinda, Victoria, where he died
in 1943.
''His
paintings are full of vitality, a fresh individual response to the land
and an instinctive immediate reaction to the light and colour of
Australia''. |
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