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Louisa Anne Meredith (1812–1895): Anglo/Australian writer and illustrator, also known as Louisa Anne Twamley; Bertha Merfield (1869–1921): painter and muralist; Vladas Meskenas (1916–2020): Sydney painter, born in Lithuania; Bill Meyer (born 1942): artist who uses photography, film and music in his work
This is a sortable list of Australian art critics who wrote for newspapers in the nineteenth [1] and twentieth centuries, a period in which such periodicals carried the majority of current, contemporaneous art criticism, [2] before most such papers ceased art reviews in the 21st century.
Robert Studley Forrest Hughes AO (28 July 1938 – 6 August 2012) was one of the most notable Australian-born art critics, writer, and producer of television documentaries. He was described in 1997 by Robert Boynton of The New York Times as "the most famous art critic in the world." [1] [2]
This is a list of Australian comics creators. Although comics have different formats, this list covers creators of editorial cartoons, comic books, graphic novels, and comic strips, along with early innovators. The list presents authors with Australia as their country of origin, although they may have published or now be resident in other ...
Norman Alfred William Lindsay (22 February 1879 – 21 November 1969) was an Australian artist, etcher, sculptor, writer, art critic, novelist, cartoonist and amateur boxer. [3]
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.
Australian literature is the written or literary work produced in the area or by the people of the Commonwealth of Australia and its preceding colonies. During its early Western history, Australia was a collection of British colonies; as such, its recognised literary tradition begins with and is linked to the broader tradition of English literature.
Having written a critique of William Dobell's 1943 The Billy Boy for the Argus, McCulloch was hired as its art critic from 1944 until 1947, [8] and after the Second World War during which his artist brother Wilfred was killed fighting in the fall of Singapore, Alan became art editor under George Johnston of a new Argus weekly national magazine, Picture Post, to which he was also appointed as a ...