#antipodeans

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John Perceval (Australian,  1923 -2000)

HAYSTACKS, 1972

oil on canvas 96.0 x 119.0 cm

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The Antipodeans were a collective of Australian modern artists, known for their advocacy of figurative art and opposition to abstract expressionism. The group was active in the late 1950s. The group's members were Charles Blackman, Arthur Boyd, David Boyd, John Brack, Robert Dickerson, John Perceval, and Clifton Pugh

with art historian Bernard Smith who compiled The Antipodean Manifesto in 1959. They were all Melbourne-based, save Dickerson, who was from Sydney.  Despite staging only a single exhibition in Melbourne in August 1959, the Antipodeans gained international recognition.

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Nude Turning Into a Dragonfly, Arthur Boyd, 1961

Oil and tempera on cardboard 160 x 183 cm (62.99 x 72.05 in.) Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Spain

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Arthur Boyd (Australian, 1920-1999), Landscape with Dam, 1972. Oil on canvas, 114.3 x 109.2 cm.

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John Brack (1920-1999), Collins St. 5 p.m., 1955. Oil on canvas.

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Robert Dickerson  (Australian, 1924-2015)

Artist Wife Reading at Kin Kin,  1991

acrylic on canvas, 90 x 120 cm

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Charles Blackman (Australian, 1928 –2018) THERE WAS 1953 enamel paint on composition board, 76.5 X 102 cm

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IMPORTANT AUSTRALIAN & INTERNATIONAL ART

A founding member of The Antipodeans, a loose collective of artists focussing on figuration in the 1950s (including Arthur Boyd, John Brack and Robert Dickerson among others), his work provided a lens onto the sense of isolation and loss that accompanied life in urban Australia following the Second World War. Other significant artists in his life included Joy Hester and Mirka Mora who shared his keen interest in direct engagement with the world of emotions.

Many images for his paintings and drawings came from walks around his home-base of Chrystobel Crescent in Hawthorn when he began to work on one of his most haunting, evocative series of works, known as the Schoolgirls.  Their sense of vulnerability and solitude within the urban context became a key aspect of much of his work to come. 

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Charles Blackman  (Australian, b. 1928)

Face, 1957

oil on canvas , 76.00 x 64.00 cm

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Charles BLACKMAN (Australian, b. 1928)

Moonrise

oil on canvas on board, 55.5 x 77.0 cm

(c) Charles Blackman. Licensed by VISCOPY Ltd, Australia

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