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Australian Impressionist

Australian Impressionist. It was at Mentone that I first saw Streeton... He was standing out on the wet rocks, painting there, and I saw that his work was full of light and air. We asked him to join us... Tom Roberts. Arthur Streeton. Early Training and Influences.

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Australian Impressionist

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  1. Australian Impressionist It was at Mentone that I first saw Streeton... He was standing out on the wet rocks, painting there, and I saw that his work was full of light and air. We asked him to join us... Tom Roberts Arthur Streeton

  2. Early Training and Influences • Spent his spare time sketching around Melbourne from an early age. • 1882 enrolled in National Gallery School of Design evening classes. • Taught traditional European academic Tradition. • Attracted to French painting “Plein air”. • Barbizon School from France. • Luis Buvelot’s Victorian landscapes.

  3. Influences • Tom Roberts from England • Charles Conder • Artists camps at Mentone, Box Hill and Heidelberg in the late 1880s. • English Romantic Poets, Keats, Shelley, Tennyson and Wordsworth. Titles and lines used for titles of his paintings. • English artists Turner and Constable

  4. Techniques • Square brushes • Visible brush strokes • Predominantly blue, green or yellow palette. • Detailed pencil underpainting showing compositional changes. • Flowers in the foreground leading into the middle scene to create depth

  5. Techniques • Sydney 1890s - Thin square brush stroke. • Small square and rectangular wooden panels for narrow glimpses and wide panoramas. • Painted overseas with round brushes, thicker brushes and looser line.

  6. Streeton as Impressionist • Painted with Fred McCubbin and Tom Roberts. • 1889 exhibited in the 9 by 5 Impressionists Exhibition, Melbourne. • Predominantly Landscape painter. • Sometimes painted the same scene under different weather conditions. Eg Hawkesbury River 1896.

  7. Golden Summer 1889 Golden Summer 1889

  8. Templestowe

  9. Rain over Sydney Harbour

  10. Templestowe

  11. The Purple Noon’s Transparent Light, 1896

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