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Frederick McCubbin (25 February 1855 – 20 December 1917) was an Australian artist, art teacher and prominent member of the Heidelberg School art movement, also known as Australian impressionism. Born and raised in Melbourne , Victoria, McCubbin studied at the National Gallery of Victoria Art School under a number of artists, notably Eugene ...
The Australian Tonalist movement, originating in the writings and teaching of Max Meldrum, followed a 'scientific' transcription of tonal relations, making 'impressionism' a system, and opposed Modernist art then emerging pre-WW2 in the Angry Penguins and the Heide Circle influenced by refugees from Europe, and Australian-born artists' visits ...
Clara Southern (3 October 1860 – 15 December 1940) was an Australian artist associated with the Heidelberg School, also known as Australian Impressionism. She was active between the years 1883 and her death in 1940. [ 1 ]
John Peter Russell (16 June 1858 – 30 April 1930) was an Australian impressionist painter. Born and raised in Sydney , Russell moved to Europe in his late teenage years to attend art school. There, he befriended fellow pupil Vincent van Gogh and, in 1886, painted the first oil portrait of the artist, now held at the Van Gogh Museum .
Art Students, 1895. Fox had a considerable influence as a teacher on Australian art. [1] In October 1892, Fox opened the Melbourne School of Art with Tudor St. George Tucker, which ran until 1899, and in which the two artists taught Impressionism in the manner of the French schools in which both had studied, [1] and with more liberal methods than the academy-style instruction of the National ...
Julian Rossi Ashton CBE (27 January 1851 – 27 April 1942) was an English-born Australian artist and teacher. He is best known for founding the Julian Ashton Art School in Sydney and encouraging Australian painters to capture local life and scenery en plein air, greatly influencing the impressionist Heidelberg School movement.
Robert Hagan is known for his western, romantic, decorative, adventure, portraiture and maritime paintings. [2] [3] [4]Hagan's approach to painting is to translate scenes of everyday life into romantic, nostalgic and blissfully peaceful visions of the world. [5]
Thomas William Roberts (8 March 1856 – 14 September 1931) was an English-born Australian artist and a key member of the Heidelberg School art movement, also known as Australian impressionism. After studying in Melbourne , he travelled to Europe in 1881 to further his training, and returned home in 1885, "primed with whatever was the latest in ...