Gustav Klimt Museum - Gustav Klimt Paintings, Gustav Klimt Drawings

Gustav Klimt - The complete works MUSEE MATISSE DE NICE - MATISSE MUSEUM OF NICE - Claude Oscar Monet - The complete works Australian painting - Redefining the Landscape and Identity Australian Painting Redfining the landscape and identity A painting may be created to replicate nature, to liberate emotion, to explore an idea or to redefine identity to hasten social change. Arguably, the Australian painting vernacular has done this more effectively that the vernacular of any other nation. The value of tradition The intention of the first known Australian artists is somewhat of a mystery. While the art of the Bradshaw people survived for tens of thousands of years, the art of the people at the time of European colonisation was usually more ephemeral. The body is the canvas; Arrernte painting for public corroboree - 1901. When European artists arrived in the 18th century, they brought with them the traditions of the "old" world. Nicholas Chevalier - Buffaloe Range from the West. Early colonial artists accessed their European training in art to depict Australia like Europe, not how it actually looks. W.B Gould - The Landlord. Albert Tucker The Metamorhphosis of Ned Kelly