John Brack: Unique Australian Art

Student Name: TANG Jocelyn Sze Ling Student ID: GEC 000009X 473 Assessment Unit: VU 21473 Task 1: 1. Sidney Nolan. 2. Sidney Nolan painted pictures using the surrealism art style.

In his collection of poems Broken Teeth, author Tony Birch explores Melbourne’s past from British Settlement to the present day. Within his poems “‘My Words’, Beruk (Ngamajet) -1835”, “Beruk Watches Melbourne from the Sky -1945” and “Visiting”, Birch creates a connected image of the city’s past through exploring snapshots of different time periods within Melbourne’s rich, diverse history. Birch’s poems also identify the strong links between the city’s past and its present, reviving the strong historical and cultural factors that influenced Melbourne’s creation. Tony Birch’s Poem “‘My Words’, Breuk (Ngamajet)- 1835”, depicts the history of the colonisation of Melbourne, as told through the eyes of prominent Indigenous leader William Barak

The Australian culture and national identity are shaped by rich and diverse elements. Australian literature and film have played a powerful role in capturing and reflecting unique aspects of Australian life. This essay explores the cultural element of the Australian outback, which is deeply ingrained in Australia’s cultural fabric and identity, and how its meaning is conveyed across the iconic Australian films Wake In Fright and Picnic At Hanging Rock. The films Wake In Fright (1971), directed by Ted Kotcheff, and Picnic At Hanging Rock (1975), directed by Peter Weir, are iconic Australian cinema works that have left an enduring mark on global audiences. The films convey profound insights into the essence of the Australian outback, an element deeply ingrained in Australia’s cultural identity.

Australian art is any art made in Australia or about Australia, from prehistoric times to the present. This includes Aboriginal, Colonial, Landscape, Atelier, early twentieth century painters, print makers, photographers, and sculptors influenced by European modernism, Contemporary art. Nation identity is a sense of a nation as a unified whole, as represented by distinctive traditions, culture, and language. Australian national identity is represented differently by unique artists depending on their background, knowledge and point of view based around Australia.

How the Australian landscape contributed to the discovery of musical Identity in Australian composers The Australian landscape has been a source of inspiration for many Australian artists and can be interpreted in many ways, some of them go to extensive lengths in order to interpret the nature of the land through their art, and this has resulted in a development in musical identity in Australia. This is more significant to first nation people as they lived in harmony with the land for many thousands of years before colonialism, and quite a lot of their recorded art has been inspired by their environment. There are two examples in this text that are both compositions from 20th century composers who have been inspired by their interpretation

Light was a means of transcendence—something artists in traditional cultures, as well as modernists like Delaney, sought in the act of painting. My research suggests that, within their respective disciplines, Baldwin and Delaney both explored light as a path to greater consciousness and, in doing so, fueled each other’s creative

Introduction Although Australian literature was established from its British origins, it was the early works of Australian bush writers and poets that transformed Australian literature into a distinctive style of its own. Over time, iconic Australian writers and poets used this unique style of literature to form the early foundations of national Australian identity. Despite the fact that Australia was originally seen as an urbanised country, Australian literary nationalism upheld an image of Australia being a rural bush environment with your average hard working bushman who embodied the values of egalitarianism and the spirit of mateship. Section One For early Australian writers and poets, the predominant way to have their work publically

People have different opinions of Ned Kelly, he may be an Outlaw, criminal or hero but he is certainly a well-known spirit of Australia. One of the most Australian infamous bushrangers, Ned Kelly (1854-1880) was wanted for murdering 3 polices and robbing 2 banks, he was also wanted for other crimes. Although he did these crimes, Ned Kelly gave money to the poor and was trying to save up money to break free his mother from hard labour. Ned Kelly was a gentlemen to people who deserved somewhat kindness and was a hero for those who were poor, and he also didn’t deserve being hunted down by dishonest

Gordon Bennet was an Australian Artist of Indigenous descent . He was born in Monto, Queensland on August, 1955. After leaving school at fifteen, Bennet pursued the studies of Formal Art and was eventually able to produce high quality paintings. Most of his work is based on what he saw when he was young. His paintings have various subliminal meanings which is what makes them contemporary fitting in with my interpretation of storytelling, subliminal is something so simple yet it is difficult to interpret.

CONTEMPORARY QUEENSLAND ART In July, GOMA is setting up a contemporary art exhibition. The nature of the conversation between the artworks and the viewer were taken place in this exhibition. The GOMA Q present their best collection of contemporary Queensland Art. This exhibition deals with the idea of artworks are in conversation with history and identity.

Australian identity and what constitutes Australian culture are prominent ideas explored by Peter Goldsworthy’s Maestro. Throughout the novel, there is a strong sense of cynicism towards Australian culture as it is painted as ambiguous and indefinite. This is established through the analogy of Paul representing Australian society and his parents representing the British influence on Australian culture. Goldsworthy also explores the European influence on Australia through Kellar’s character. Goldsworthy’s broader message is that Australian identity is in fact quite complex and open to interpretation due how culturally diverse it is.

Through poetic techniques and style, these poets position the reader to view the Australian experience from two contrasting perspectives. These two poems both are a conflicting as Dorothea Mackellar talks about a positive experience and Henry Lawson talks about a negative experience within the Australian culture by using various poetic techniques. Although the content of both are varying, both poets have managed to clearly present their perception of what Australia means to

In Hasluck’s early years, he was a member of the Western Australian Aboriginal Amelioration Association and as a journalist for the West Australian . While working as a journalist he spent time traveling and living with members of the Moseley Commission where he highlighted the living conditions of Aboriginal People . Hasluck’s experience living and working with Aboriginal People gave him a deep understanding of the plight of Aboriginal people and the dangers of racist thinking. Hasluck began his federal political career in 1949 as the Liberal member for Curtin . Only two years later he became the Minister for Territories a position he held for the next twelve years .

Writer, James Baldwin believed as an artist, one must pursue and attain a “state of being alone” to find one’s way. (Baldwin, Creative America, p. 1) Like Baldwin, aloneness was a “silence” that painter Beauford Delaney described and which he found in light, a spiritual as well as atmospheric light. Each man needed this “light,” this “silence,” and this “aloneness,” as Baldwin said, to “illuminate [the] darkness;” to delve into their individual creative spaces, explore their shared cultural backgrounds, and embrace their trans-global identities. After James Baldwin moved to Paris he invited Delaney to join him. After arriving in France, Delaney took a train to Normandy.

I learned a lot, and I enjoyed all the artwork while I was there. Writing this essay is probably one of the more difficult essays I have written in a while. Mostly because I’am trying to understand the meaning behind an artwork. There is no right or wrong way to interpret art. Each person has their own interpretations.