John Glover, Russel Drysdale, Lauren Berkowitz & Barbara Reid

Throughout history the unique and unsettled Australian beautify has inspired a diverse array of guileistic responses. Impressios of its advocator and beauty, expressions of individuals responses, symbolic religious orientation, the range of adorn art makes extends onwards. A prominent example of the vast variations of own(prenominal) manners git be seen in the art diversenesss of Glover, Drysdale, Berkowitz and Reid. John Glover Constitution hillock at sunset Van Diemans cut, from to the highest degree Mrs Ransons Public Ho engross, June 29th 1840.Oil on stackvas, 76. 8 ? 114. 9 cm. H31203. La Trobe design Collection. John Glover, artist. Birth 18 February 1767, Houghton-on-the-Hill, Leicestershire, England cobblers last 9 December 1849, Van Diemens Land (Tasmania), Australia. He accepts the emptiness that dominates the Australian bush, and this was a huge change from Lorrain, Hansen says. He was the head start great Australian painter of emptiness, a theme that obs esses painters to this day. (www. theage. com. au/articles. )John Glover was an too soon colonialist painter and was one of the pioneers of an Australian adorn moving picture. He was an acclaimed decorate painter in England and France, moreover he was never seen as an artist who pushed the boundaries. This changed when he travel to Tasmania in 1831, age 64. He saw the Australia ornament with new eyes and was keen to expire the next English Claude. Thus many another(prenominal) have dubbed him The father of Australian adorn painting. The postageistic painting entire Hill at sunset is peradventure one of Glover most renowned.While he was initially criticised for not paying confining enough charge to the local characteristics, he did find an individuality in his go through the beautify and atmosphere of Tasmania. His exposure of the Tasmanian light is bright and conduct and his gum trees be accurate convincing, with their stalky course of action and sparse and scr aggly foliage. as yet the inexpugnable influence of romantic artists Claude Lorraine and Gaspard Poussin lingers in his work. hence Glovers work has a rattling European flavour. It is in like manner really beautiful and has an air of a peaceful utopian land. This romantic, pictorial and esthetically pleasing style of painting has striking differences to the artistic techniques utilise by Russell Drysdale, Lauren Berkowitz and Barbara Reid Napangarti. Russell Drysdale Red landscape (1945) Vaucluse, Sydney, anele on composition board, 51. 9 x 67. 0 cm, inscribed in disastrous paint Russell Drysdale Mr and Mrs Rupert Murdoch Birth 1912, Bognor Regis, England D earthly concern 1981, Sydney, Australia Russel Drysdale moved from England to Australia when he was only eleven geezerhood old. Throughout his lifetime he traveled extensively however his artistic focussing remained on outback rural Australia.Because he spent the majority of his life in Australia his paintings show mi nimal European influence. This in itself creates a great contrast in the midst of Glover and Drysdale. Another significant difference is that Glovers paintings are impressionistic while Drysdales nontextual matters are expressionistic. This expressionist style broke away from the customs duty Australian landscape art practices show in his era. Un exchangeable Glover, Drysdale preferred to work form from sketches, photographs and his memory when composing.When Drysdale worked on his paintings he worked hard, however it would quite often be a long and agonising experience. He was the first artist to investigate the forswear and rural outback-Australian life for a extended period of time. This intensive exploration gave revolt to the central themes of many of his ar twainrks. Some of these themes include the issue of alienation of indigenous people, isolation of rural life, multi heathenism and national identity. The Red landscape is a perfect example of these themes. It shows the landscape surrounding Mount Olga in the blue Territory.The dead twisted tree trunks, and exceedingly vivid colours express a strong mood of isolation and ravageion. Although the artwork is not as realistically precise as Glovers Constitutional Hill at sunset, it manages to express the true essences of the Australia desert. there is a house and washing blowing in the wind but there is no presence of human being, or anything animateness for that matter. This gives a bleak, depressing feeling. Lauren Berkowitz Strata, 1999, sand and gravel, 14 x 7m Mc Clelland Gallery, Victoria painting John GollingsBirth 1965, Melbourne Lauren Berkowitz is a coeval installation artist. Installation art can be described as a three-dimensional painting, sculpture, poem, and prose work, which is normally transient and site-specific. This very modern art practise makes Berkowitzs expression of Australian landscape is exclusively different to the previous two artists, Glover and Drysdale. Her work is made with an almost obsessive attention to detail after painstaking seek and, ultimately, total dedication to the moment of making. withal twain Glover and Drysdale were very focused and peculiar(prenominal) about their artworks. Unlike Glover and Drysdale, Berkowitz does not use paint at all, nor does she depict the landscape realistically. Instead she collects materials and items from the specific environment and creates a symbolic sculpture. Often they evoke interlinking thoughts, longings, and moods and have multiple meanings. Her works usually revolve around the themes of land degradation, environmental disasters and the human impact on the land.We can see these themes displayed in the artwork Strata, which gives a give a compelling moral message of our obligation and responsibility to the earth and its sustainability. One can also induce many parallels between this artwork and indigenous artwork. For example like indigenous art Strata is based around symbolizati on. Also the double-dyed(a) colours depicted are very similar to that of indigenous desert artworks and, like traditional Australia tribal artists, Berkowitz is not interest in constructing lasting monuments but instead temporary works that can be returned to the landscape.Although it is not as extreme in Drysdales work, one can also draw parallels between his use symbolism and Berkowitz. WOMANS HEALING CEREMONY Medium acrylic fiber on Belgian linen. Image coat 120 x 75 cm- illustrated Australian Encyclopedia Aboriginal Artists, page 256, Barbara Reid Napangarti (B. 1962-) Barbara Reid Napangarti Barabara Reid Napangarhi was born(p) in Tjukurla, in Western Australia. She belongs to the Pintupi community and is the daughter of the world-renowned artist Nigura Napurrula.Ried paints important cultural stories of womens dreaming associated with her region. The paintings explore the unique desert country of her homeland. Although Drysdale focused on a similar landscape they both portray the barren area in two very different ways. This is because Reid has a only different art practice to Drysdale and Glover. However she does share some similarities with Berkowitz. For example they both use symbols, lines and patterns to show the Australian landscape.The painting titled Womans Healing ceremony depicts the ceremonial occasion site of the healing ceremony in her homeland Tjukurla. Like all her paintings it carries a deep spiritual meaning. This is what differentiates her work form the three earlier artists. Glover simply gives an impression of the beautiful landscape around him, Drysdale gives a more expressionistic depiction of the Australian landscape and Berkowitz gives a symbolic personal message about the Australian landscape. Reid however includes the landscape into her dreamtime stories through symbolism that is customary to her people.