Australian Impressionism: After Tom Roberts
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Today I would like share with you a quick painting study I completed recently by one of my favourite artists: Tom Roberts.
Landscape, Cremorne: After Tom Roberts, 2017
This view of Sydney Harbor from Cremorne was originally painted in 1894 whist Roberts was embedded with a group of artists and writers who lived in camps at Little Sirius Cove, Mosman and Edwards Bay, Balmoral. I became fascinated with the idyllic nature of these camps and the art produced there upon reading the book Bohemians in the Bush: The Artists' Camps of Mosman, published by the Art Gallery of New South Wales in conjunction with the 1991 exhibition of the same name. The paintings executed around the camps were significant in re-visioning the public's perception of the Australian landscape at a time of increasing nationalistic ideals, sentiments best exemplified by The Man from Snowy River (1890) by Banjo Paterson.
In copying this painting I gained a valuable insight into Tom Roberts characteristic impressionist painting technique, while also considering the work in relation to the historical context in which it was produced.
Tom Roberts, Landscape, Cremorne, 1894, oil on canvas on plywood, National Gallery of Victoria
References: Bohemians in the Bush: The Artists' Camps of Mosman, text by Albie Thoms ; edited by Barry Pearce and Linda Slutzkin, Art Gallery of New South Wales (Sydney), 1991.
http://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/explore/collection/work/2903/
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