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
The reflection of spectacular sun on the foliage and rocks is highlighted with the application of spread of white giving a glowing affect. The composition is traditionally English because we see a road winding in the centre, the trees on either side framing the picture and look quite like the English elm trees more than Australian Fauna. This was because of the streets winding of into the distance and the lush green gardens throughout the painting also because in his work of art there is a large exposure of the sky and he also has rocks surrounding the outskirts of the painting as a sort of frame. He has showed the Aboriginals bathing in the semi-transparent blue waters, in a friendly nature by having them standing around in the water almost dancing. John Glover settled in Van Diemen's Land (now Tasmania) in 1831 after a successful artistic career in Britain. John Eyre was a popular convict artist who also did topographical paintings in the 1800's. He was best known for drawings of life on the goldfields of Victoria during the 1850's. Glovers painting "The River Nile, Van Diemen's land", show aspects, which reflect on his traditional European training. The lit up area in the centre leads your eye into the painting and the large stretch of sky is conventionally English. The trees are very spindly, roughly rubbery in shape, in which he has composed the trees to frame the painting. He has also been careful to show the distant landscape through the thin gum trees. Such European landscape masters of the late 1700's as Claude Lorraine, Salvator Rosa, and Gaspard Poussin influenced Glover in his work.
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