DOI Heft:
No. 36 (March, 1896)
DOI Artikel:A., G.: Art & artists in Australia
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.17296#0104
Art and Artists in Australia
of the last exhibition just closed in Melbourne society worked with varying success; by this time,
says the work appears to have " all come from one however, the number of artists was increasing,
studio." Australian nature has now her pupils many having arrived from the older countries. When
in hand; the result is certain, and the time may not the needs of a home and exhibition space began to
be far distant when these pupils, transformed into be seriously felt, naturally longing eyes were cast
masters, may hold an exhibition in London that upon the ground and bluestone building which stood
would come laden with the perfume of the a landmark on Eastern Hill for so long. The new
Australian bush, a clear sky, metallic gum leaves, set having formed themselves into the " Three
dust covered tracks, a presentment of the true A's" (" Australian Artists' Association") con-
Australian type, not as represented in drama, but siderable success attended their operations, and
solidified at the very
moment of felling some
giant tree, or scanning
the parched and dazz-
ling plains for some
signs of his straying
flocks — a veritable
Australian subject, with
all but the breath of
life. This is what the
artists of Melbourne
and Sydney are striv-
ing to depict. Of the
institutions identified
with Art in the colo-
nies, less may perhaps
interest the London
reader. Victoria and
New South Wales both
possess societies of
growing energy and
power; the former
colony perhaps em-
braces the greater
number of actual pro-
fessionals, and perhaps
also the larger number
of stronger workers.
It was twenty-three
years ago when the
Victorian Academy of
Arts was started. The
outlook must have
been a little depres-
sing, with a small
ground grant from the
State, which enabled
them to build and hold
exhibitions, which
mainly existed on the some members of the Victorian art society
supplementary aid ^ Q A Q Dcstr-C
offered by an Art Percival Ball J- Mather, President Walter Withers
Union. For over A. Loureiro E. E. Smith
thirteen years the Btmui Hall Sir George Verdon
91
of the last exhibition just closed in Melbourne society worked with varying success; by this time,
says the work appears to have " all come from one however, the number of artists was increasing,
studio." Australian nature has now her pupils many having arrived from the older countries. When
in hand; the result is certain, and the time may not the needs of a home and exhibition space began to
be far distant when these pupils, transformed into be seriously felt, naturally longing eyes were cast
masters, may hold an exhibition in London that upon the ground and bluestone building which stood
would come laden with the perfume of the a landmark on Eastern Hill for so long. The new
Australian bush, a clear sky, metallic gum leaves, set having formed themselves into the " Three
dust covered tracks, a presentment of the true A's" (" Australian Artists' Association") con-
Australian type, not as represented in drama, but siderable success attended their operations, and
solidified at the very
moment of felling some
giant tree, or scanning
the parched and dazz-
ling plains for some
signs of his straying
flocks — a veritable
Australian subject, with
all but the breath of
life. This is what the
artists of Melbourne
and Sydney are striv-
ing to depict. Of the
institutions identified
with Art in the colo-
nies, less may perhaps
interest the London
reader. Victoria and
New South Wales both
possess societies of
growing energy and
power; the former
colony perhaps em-
braces the greater
number of actual pro-
fessionals, and perhaps
also the larger number
of stronger workers.
It was twenty-three
years ago when the
Victorian Academy of
Arts was started. The
outlook must have
been a little depres-
sing, with a small
ground grant from the
State, which enabled
them to build and hold
exhibitions, which
mainly existed on the some members of the Victorian art society
supplementary aid ^ Q A Q Dcstr-C
offered by an Art Percival Ball J- Mather, President Walter Withers
Union. For over A. Loureiro E. E. Smith
thirteen years the Btmui Hall Sir George Verdon
91