Russell drysdale brief biography of benjamin johnson

By signing up you agree to terms and conditions and privacy policy. I agree to the Art UK terms and conditions and privacy policy. Sign up to the Art UK newsletter , a weekly edit of insightful art stories. Stockman Australian painter of English birth. His family had owned land in Australia since the s and he spent several years of his childhood there.

Sir George Russell Drysdale (bd) was born in England to a wealthy Anglo-Australian pastoralist family, that settled in Melbourne in

The family settled in Melbourne in and in the late s Drysdale gave up farming to study art. After moving to Sydney in , he devoted himself full-time to painting and his work became well known throughout Australia during the s. It revived the tradition of hardship, tragedy, and melancholy associated with the Australian bush that had been obscured by the much more optimistic interpretation developed during the s by the city-based painters of the Heidelberg School.

However, in place of the basically Impressionist style of the Heidelberg painters, Drysdale blended Expressionist and Surrealist features founded on his knowledge of contemporary European painting. About Discover Learn Stories Donate.

In the early 's Drysdale began to illustrate the life of Australia's rural frontiers in his own enigmatic style.

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