Different Impressions of the Australian Landscape Essay | Essay

This student essay consists of approximately 2 pages of analysis of Different Impressions of the Australian Landscape.

Different Impressions of the Australian Landscape Essay | Essay

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Different Impressions of the Australian Landscape

Summary: "Purple Noon's Transparent Might," an oil painting of the Hawkesbury River by Arthur Streeton compared to an abstract contemporary postmodern collage entitled "Monaro" by Rosalie Gascoigne. This essay compares and contrasts the artists' use of media and materials, their artistic influences and the ideas behind the works.
An oil painting of the Hawkesbury River called "Purple Noon's Transparent Might" by "Arthur Streeton." Painted in 1896. Compared with an abstract contemporary postmodern collage entitled "Monaro" by "Rosalie Gascoigne", constructed in 1989. This essay will compare and contrast the artists' use of media and materials, their artistic influences and the ideas behind the works.

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Both Gascoigne and Streeton used the design elements to create two very different impressions of the Australian landscape. With her distinctive and poetic assembling of found objects, Rosalie Gascoigne is one of Australia's most accomplished visual artists. Where as Arthur Streeton is also a great artist with the way he uses colour and different shapes and layers.

In "The Purple Noon's Transparent Might", Streeton has used colours such as blue and gold for grazing land. Streeton has also used other techniques such as division, which is the placement of objects in a composition to...

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