Grace Crowley’s Contribution to Australian Modernism and Geometric Abstraction
Title | Grace Crowley’s Contribution to Australian Modernism and Geometric Abstraction PDF eBook |
Author | Dianne Ottley |
Publisher | Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Pages | 201 |
Release | 2010-02-19 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 1443820474 |
Grace Crowley has been recognized as a product of European modernism and was one of the leading innovators of geometric abstraction in Australia. Having studied in Paris in the 1920s with one of the leading art teachers, writers and theorists, André Lhote, she returned to Australia having mastered the complex mathematics and geometry of the golden section and dynamic symmetry, that had become a framework for modernism. Through her teaching of these compositional techniques at the most progressive modern art school in Sydney in the 1930s, she became a crucial influence on the group of artists now recognized as the historical forerunners to American colour-field painting introduced to Australia in the 1960s, and Australian abstraction. Through her close friendship with Anne Dangar, who played a critical role in the success of Albert Gleizes’ utopian art colony in rural France, Crowley maintained contact with mainstream European modernism and links to the Abstraction-Creation Group in Paris. During the 1940s and 1950s, Crowley worked with fellow-artist Ralph Balson, and together they developed their own style of geometric abstract art which reflected the spiritual dimensions of Kandinsky and Mondrian. Although undervalued in her own time, the sincerity and uncompromising quality of her work that transcends national boundaries, makes her one of the most important Australian women artists of her generation.
Grace Crowley
Title | Grace Crowley PDF eBook |
Author | Riet Wijnen |
Publisher | |
Pages | 272 |
Release | 2019 |
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ISBN | 9789490629212 |
Grace Crowley' is a publication based on letters sent to the Australian artist and pioneer of modernist painting Grace Crowley (1890?1979) by friends, family, and colleagues. Parts of those letters, which are now housed in the Art Gallery of New South Wales and the State Library of New South Wales archives in Sydney, were transcribed and categorized by Riet Wijnen in subsections such as ?Marital Status?, ?Teaching?, ?Hosting?, ?Eurasia?, ?X?, ?Being A Woman?, ?War?, ?$?, and ?Making Work?. The result is an alternative biography constructed solely through a living set of relations.
Grace Crowley
Title | Grace Crowley PDF eBook |
Author | Grace Crowley |
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Albert Gleizes
Title | Albert Gleizes PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Brooke |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Pages | 354 |
Release | 2001-01-01 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780300089646 |
Gleizes was also one of the few French painters of the 1920s to recognise nonrepresentational painting as the logical development of Cubism." "His work as a painter is accompanied by an immense body of theoretical work, addressing the question posed so starkly by Duchamp and Picabia: why should we paint? What is the justification for the work of art? Over his life he touches on many spheres of human activity - religious, political and cultural history, physics and the philosophy of work.".
Australian Women Artists, 1840-1940
Title | Australian Women Artists, 1840-1940 PDF eBook |
Author | Janine Burke |
Publisher | Greenhouse Publishing Company |
Pages | 196 |
Release | 1980 |
Genre | Art |
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Joy Hester - Thea Proctor - Ethel Spowers - Edith Holmes - Grace Crowley - Nora Heysen - Clarice Beckett - Grace Cossington Smith - Hilda Rix Nicholas.
Balson, Crowley, Fizelle, Hinder
Title | Balson, Crowley, Fizelle, Hinder PDF eBook |
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Pages | 36 |
Release | 1966 |
Genre | Painting, Australian |
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Springfield (Sangamon County, Illinois) City Directory
Title | Springfield (Sangamon County, Illinois) City Directory PDF eBook |
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Pages | 1374 |
Release | 1915 |
Genre | Sangamon County (Ill.) |
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