Australian Art
Early painters of Australia included artists who recorded scientific and geographical information which were called topographical paintings. Professional artists on voyages of discovery from Great Britain (also known as the United Kingdom) recorded the coastlines and harbours, plants and animals, and local people of the new colony for official accounts; these painters were Thomas Watling, John Eyre, John Glover Conrad Martens and ST Gill. Most of the early Australian painters were amateur artists. The traditionally English aspects of these topographical paintings were, trees or rocks framing the picture, large exposure of the sky; bright lit up area in the centre and often a road leading into the painting.Thomas Watling was the first trained artist of the colony. He was transported to Australia as a punishment for forgery. His large view of Sydney Cove in 1794 is possibly the oldest surviving Australian painting. The early Australian painters had been trained in Britain, and their response to the landscape was limited by techniques and pictorial formulas acquired there. His painting of "Sydney cove" portrays the early exp
Conrad Martens was a topographical artist with the British naturalist Charles Darwin on the voyage of the Beagle. In 1835, Martens settled in Sydney and painted a large number of paintings. He stressed the romantic grandeur and dramatic effects of atmosphere and light in the landscape around Sydney, particularly Sydney Harbour. His watercolour "View of Sydney from Rose bay" is a breathtaking depiction of Sydney at sunset. The sky is a wash of crimson and a gold yellow, whilst the foreground exhibits an array of blues and greys. The reflection of spectacular sun on the foliage and rocks is highlighted with the application of spread of white giving a glowing affect. Overlooking is an impressive colonial mansion, presenting the obvious sign that the colony was expanding. In the middle ground the silhouette spearing fish and in the foreground Aboriginal women making a fire. John Glover settled in Van Diemen's Land (now Tasmania) in 1831 after a successful artistic career in Britain. Such European landscape masters of the late 1700's as Claude Lorraine, Salvator Rosa, and Gaspard Poussin influenced Glover in his work. As a res
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