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A SENSE OF PLACE IN WESTERN AUSTRALIAN ART
The topic “A Sense of Place in Western Australian art” is extremely broad, and it is possible to look at many, many paintings and artists as using the theme “a sense of place” in many ways; geographically and physically, culturally, historically, emotionally and a variety of other ways. Aboriginal artists such as Sally Morgan and Gordon Bennett have done paintings which use “a sense of place” in a more complex and emotional way, whereas Artists such as Robert Juniper and Guy Grey – Smith do paintings which give a sense of the geographical and physical aspects of Western Australia. I will look at “A Sense of Place in Western Australian Art” in a very literal way, geographically, as it is a very frequent subject matter when dealing with Western Australian, and Australian, art. When dealing with landscapes and the Geographical side of “A sense of place”, it is possible to divide the paintings into two main categories; rural WA and urban WA. Artists such as Guy Grey Smith have chosen to paint the rural areas and the landscapes of WA, whereas artists such as John Rich Cartwright and Thomas Horeau have used the Australian urban areas and the city as their subject matter.
When the first settlers began to arrive in WA and started to paint images of the Western Australian landscape, they painted it in a very romantic and glorified manner, a period which eventually gave birth to the Heidelberg School Movement, one of the better know Australian art movements, although it started in NSW.
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Approximate Pages = 4.5
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