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This is the first major publication on the work of the noted Queensland artist William Robinson, and documents his emergence as a significant force in the Australian landscape tradition. Lynn Fern traces the development of Robinson's work through three major changes of style and content. The artist began as an academically trained painter who used his love of colour and the work of Bonnard to find his way forward through the painting of interiors. The discovery of the full range of his painterly vocabulary, however, required two dramatic changes of location. At the first of these - a small farm in Birkdale - Robinson's work developed through representation of the chaotic life of the these paintings were powerfully structured despite the apparently random placement of objects. The second move provided him with rainforest wilderness as a setting for his painting. This phase of Robinson's work - inspired by the Darlington Mountains in southern Queensland - is vitally concerned with the atmosphere and the spirit of the landscape and with the diurnal and circadian rhythms inherent in the natural world. Robinson often portrays simultaneous sensations of 'time-scale and multi-viewpoints'

Author

Fern, Lynn

Publisher

Roseville East, NSW: Craftsman House ; USA: G+B Arts International

Published

1995

Language

EN

ISBN

9789768097668

Subjects

Art, Arts