Classics Of Australian Art

Author : Arthur Streeton
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780331653403
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (534 download)

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Download or read book The Art of Arthur Streeton written by Arthur Streeton and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-22 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Art of Arthur Streeton: Special Number of Art in Australia I saw Streeton fairly often at this time. He lived in a camp at Little Sirius Cove, Mosman, where he was joined later on by Tom Roberts. He used to do the marketing, and on arriving at the Musgrave Street wharf had to walk around the point and blow a whistle for the boat to come across from the camp. To see him returning on Saturday nights, laden with parcels of bread, beer and beef, and as merry the while as a boy at a picnic, was a de light. In those days the painters' material wants were few, but their hopes were unbounded. He was cheerful and fond of company, and seemed to be quite uninterested in theories about art, but preoccupied with the task of representing in terms of paint the beauty of the scenes before him. If an argument about art started in the camp, Streeton would make a jest of it, walking up and down and shouting: Apples, Oranges and Lemonade. He joined with Roberts and myself in many a fierce bout with the old Art Society in the hope of widen ing its point of view, but he never lost his temper over them as many of us did. Indeed, it seemed to me that he never felt that theories about art, or the administration of art societies, really mattered. His nature was that of a fresh, breezy, care-free youth who revelled in the beauty of his country, and whose highest am bition was to paint it as faithfully as he could. His colour sense was not subtle, but he was warmly appreciative of the general fea tures of Australian colouration, and by hard continuous training his hand answered readily to every suggestion of colour that he saw before him. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.