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Elizabeth Durack (1915–2000): Western Australian artist and writer; Ivan Durrant (born 1947): painter, performance artist and writer; Benjamin Duterrau (1768–1851): English painter, etcher, engraver, sculptor and art lecturer who emigrated to Tasmania; Ludwik Dutkiewicz (1921–2008): Ukrainian-born naturalized Australian artist [1]
Australian art is a broad spectrum of art created in or about Australia, or by Australians overseas, spanning from prehistoric times to the present day. The art forms include, but are not limited to, Aboriginal , Colonial, Landscape , Atelier , and Contemporary art .
Numerous Indigenous Australians are noted for their participation in, and contributions to, the Visual arts of Australia and abroad. Contemporary Indigenous Australian art is a national movement of international significance with work by Indigenous artists, including paintings by those from the Western Desert, achieving widespread critical acclaim.
Also: Australia: People: By occupation: People in arts occupations: Artists Pages in this category should be moved to subcategories where applicable. This category may require frequent maintenance to avoid becoming too large.
Indigenous Australian art includes art made by Aboriginal Australians and Torres Strait Islanders, including collaborations with others. It includes works in a wide range of media including painting on leaves, bark painting , wood carving , rock carving , watercolour painting , sculpting , ceremonial clothing and sandpainting .
In 2016, a new national $100,000 acquisitive art prize for artists, open to Australian artists under 40 working in any medium, was announced by the Premier of South Australia, Jay Weatherill. Supported by the James & Diana Ramsay Foundation (and launched by Diana on her 90th birthday [58]), it is the country's richest art prize, awarded biennially
This is a non-diffusing parent category of Category:20th-century Australian male artists and Category:20th-century Australian women artists The contents of these subcategories can also be found within this category, or in diffusing subcategories of it.
Quintessentially Australian art styles include the Heidelberg School the Hermannsburg School and the Western Desert Art Movement. Australian cinema has a long tradition with a body of work producing popular classics such as Crocodile Dundee and The Man From Snowy River, and arthouse successes such as Picnic at Hanging Rock and Ten Canoes.