Australia. 1923 - 2000
Painting and sculpture
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1920 Melbourne, Australia - 1999 Melbourne, Australia. Known for: Portrait, figure, nudes, social criticism painting, teaching.
John (Cecil John) Brack (1920-1999). Brack's early conventional style evolved into one of simplified, almost stark, shapes and areas of deliberately drab color, often featuring large areas of brown.... Read full biography
John (Cecil John) Brack (1920-1999). Brack's early conventional style evolved into one of simplified, almost stark, shapes and areas of deliberately drab color, often featuring large areas of brown. He made an initial mark in the 1950s with works on the contemporary Australian culture, such as the... Read full biography
John (Cecil John) Brack (1920-1999). Brack's early conventional style evolved into one of simplified, almost stark, shapes and areas of deliberately drab color, often featuring large areas of brown. He made an initial mark in the 1950s with works on the contemporary Australian culture, such as the iconic Collins St., 5 pm (1955), a view of rush hour in post-war Melbourne. Set in a bleak palette of browns and greys, it was a comment on the conformity of everyday life, with all figures looking... Read full biography
John (Cecil John) Brack (1920-1999). Brack's early conventional style evolved into one of simplified, almost stark, shapes and areas of deliberately drab color, often featuring large areas of brown. He made an initial mark in the 1950s with works on the contemporary Australian culture, such as the iconic Collins St., 5 pm (1955), a view of rush hour in post-war Melbourne. Set in a bleak palette of browns and greys, it was a comment on the conformity of everyday life, with all figures looking almost identical. A related painting The bar (1954) was modeled on Manet's A Bar at the Folies-Bergère, and satirized the Six o'clock swill, a social ritual arising from the early closing of Australian bars. Most of these early paintings and drawings... Read full biography
John (Cecil John) Brack (1920-1999). Brack's early conventional style evolved into one of simplified, almost stark, shapes and areas of deliberately drab color, often featuring large areas of brown. He made an initial mark in the 1950s with works on the contemporary Australian culture, such as the iconic Collins St., 5 pm (1955), a view of rush hour in post-war Melbourne. Set in a bleak palette of browns and greys, it was a comment on the conformity of everyday life, with all figures looking almost identical. A related painting The bar (1954) was modeled on Manet's A Bar at the Folies-Bergère, and satirized the Six o'clock swill, a social ritual arising from the early closing of Australian bars. Most of these early paintings and drawings were unmistakably satirical comments against the Australian Dream, either being set in the newly expa... Read full biography
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Australia. 1920 - 1999
Impressionist landscape, biblical and figurative painting, ceramics
Australia. 1916 - 1981
Fusing the ideas of Cézanne and Nicolas de Staël, using trowels and scrapers to apply slabs of bold pigment bulked up by the addition of a homemade beeswax emulsion.
New York / England. Born 1931
Op-art, non-objective, pure abstraction
Australia. Born 1936
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Australia, United Kingdom. Born 1965
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Australia. Born 1949
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Australia, England. Born 1940
Painting
Australia, England. 1928 - 2018
Modernist figurative painting
Australia, India. 1938 - 2009
Painting
England, Scotland. 1920 - 2014
Naive iconic abstract painting
Australia, France. 1864 - 1947
Portrait, female figure and landscape painting
Australia. 1923 - 2011
Interior and still-life painting
Australia. Born 1942
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France, Switzerland. 1886/87 - 1966
Abstract sculpture, installation, painting
Australia. 1928 - 2023
Abstract landscape painting, drawing, ceramics, sculpture, objects
Australia. Born 1948
Painting and sculpture
Australia. 1951 - 1999
Painting
Australia, England. 1915 - 1989
Fantasy scene painting, homo-erotic images
Australia. 1891 - 1974
Painting and sculpture
Australia, England. 1867 - 1943
Australian landscape painting
Australia, United Kingdom. Born 1958
Painting
Australia. 1855 - 1917
Land-and townscape, still life painting, teaching
Australia, England. 1892 - 1984
Post-impressionist landscape, still life, and interior painting