DOI Heft:
No. 256 (August 1914)
DOI Artikel:Moore, William: Notes on some younger Australian artists
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21210#0222
Notes on Some Younger Australian Artists
NOTES ON SOME YOUNGER Europe and while he was quite a young man,
AUSTRAI IAN ARTISTS BY Streeton sent his Golden Summer to the Old Salon,
WILLIAM MOORE whm '* hung on the .line and awardwl an
honourable mention ; and this year Norman Carter,
Australia has an inspiring atmosphere but a who has never been out of Australia, got on the line
comparatively small population ; it produces, as at the Academy with the portrait which gained him
Mr. Streeton recently observed, more talent than it a medal at the Old Salon last year,
can support. A considerable number of the younger In considering the work of just a few of the
artists therefore go abroad ; they take a studio in younger men who have gained distinction at home
London or Paris or settle down in the picturesque and abroad, it will be appropriate to commence
ports of Dieppe, Etaples and St. Ives. You could with that of Fred Leist whose Rivals at the
find them doing black and white in the newspaper Academy has been singled out as one of the
offices in the skyscrapers of New York and further pictures of the year. He has the courage to aim
up town finishing landscapes or portraits for exhibi- at strong effects in colour ; one of the critics men-
tions in the Eastern States. A certain percentage tioned his Academy work as "a welcome patch of
of new names in the annual list of Australians colour in a colourless show." His figure paintings
having works in the Academy and the Salons have been well hung at recent exhibitions, The
indicates that the younger generation of artists are Mirror being on the line at both the Academy and
continually battering at the door. Salon. The artist does black and white as well as
But they don't all go abroad to paint for the figure painting, his first commission when he arrived
Academy and Salons. Sometimes an artist tries in London five years ago being a series of Bast
a long shot from Australia. Before he left for End drawings for " The Graphic." His double-
" ARIADNE "
( Tate Gallery)
BY HAROLD PARKER
NOTES ON SOME YOUNGER Europe and while he was quite a young man,
AUSTRAI IAN ARTISTS BY Streeton sent his Golden Summer to the Old Salon,
WILLIAM MOORE whm '* hung on the .line and awardwl an
honourable mention ; and this year Norman Carter,
Australia has an inspiring atmosphere but a who has never been out of Australia, got on the line
comparatively small population ; it produces, as at the Academy with the portrait which gained him
Mr. Streeton recently observed, more talent than it a medal at the Old Salon last year,
can support. A considerable number of the younger In considering the work of just a few of the
artists therefore go abroad ; they take a studio in younger men who have gained distinction at home
London or Paris or settle down in the picturesque and abroad, it will be appropriate to commence
ports of Dieppe, Etaples and St. Ives. You could with that of Fred Leist whose Rivals at the
find them doing black and white in the newspaper Academy has been singled out as one of the
offices in the skyscrapers of New York and further pictures of the year. He has the courage to aim
up town finishing landscapes or portraits for exhibi- at strong effects in colour ; one of the critics men-
tions in the Eastern States. A certain percentage tioned his Academy work as "a welcome patch of
of new names in the annual list of Australians colour in a colourless show." His figure paintings
having works in the Academy and the Salons have been well hung at recent exhibitions, The
indicates that the younger generation of artists are Mirror being on the line at both the Academy and
continually battering at the door. Salon. The artist does black and white as well as
But they don't all go abroad to paint for the figure painting, his first commission when he arrived
Academy and Salons. Sometimes an artist tries in London five years ago being a series of Bast
a long shot from Australia. Before he left for End drawings for " The Graphic." His double-
" ARIADNE "
( Tate Gallery)
BY HAROLD PARKER