Virtual travel broadens the mind
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qatsiBook Review: Australia's Impressionists, edited by Christopher Riopelle
As lockdown travel goes, this is about as far as it gets: another exhibition catalogue, this time from 2017. The exhibition was quite compact, and the book is too, focusing on just four artists, though there are some comparison illustrations and references to others. A combination of home-grown and imported talent; the discontent in the conservatism of teaching in Paris in the late nineteenth century; works that produced a mixed response and took time to be accepted. My impressions from the exhibition seem largely constant. Perhaps Sirius Cove is less impressive in the book: due to its format, it can't help but appear rather in miniature; but Ariadne, used also as the catalogue cover, has more of the quintessential, scorching light.
As lockdown travel goes, this is about as far as it gets: another exhibition catalogue, this time from 2017. The exhibition was quite compact, and the book is too, focusing on just four artists, though there are some comparison illustrations and references to others. A combination of home-grown and imported talent; the discontent in the conservatism of teaching in Paris in the late nineteenth century; works that produced a mixed response and took time to be accepted. My impressions from the exhibition seem largely constant. Perhaps Sirius Cove is less impressive in the book: due to its format, it can't help but appear rather in miniature; but Ariadne, used also as the catalogue cover, has more of the quintessential, scorching light.
A Break Away! (Tom Roberts)
Fire's on (Arthur Streeton)
Sirius Cove (Arthur Streeton)
Ariadne (Arthur Streeton)