Cream: Four Decades of Australian Art
Cream: Four Decades of Australian Art chronicles the development of modernism in Australia from 1940 to 1980.
About the exhibition
Grace Cossington Smith’s Drapery in the studio 1940 demonstrates the predominance of post-impressionism and European influences in Australian art at that time. The painting also indicates an end point for euro-centric influences and a new era of a truly ‘Australian’ style. In a post-Second World War environment, themes that emerged include universal mythologies in an Australian context, a revised representation of the Australian landscape, portraiture, and social realist depictions of marginalised Australians.
Artists
David Aspden, Charles Blackman, Arthur Boyd, John Brack, Judy Cassab, John Coburn, Noel Counihan, Ray Crooke, William Dargie, William Delafield Crook, Russell Drysdale, Donald Friend, Sam Fullbrook, James Gleeson, Frank Hinder, Vida Lahey, Kenneth Macqueen, Jon Molvig, Sidney Nolan, Margaret Olley, John Olsen, John Perceval, Clifton Pugh, Lloyd Rees, William Robinson, Jeffrey Smart, Grace Cossington Smith, Joshua Smith, Constance Stokes, Brett Whiteley, Fred Williams.
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Acknowledgements
Cream: Four Decades of Australian Art was a Rockhampton Art Gallery exhibition, toured by Museums & Galleries Queensland. This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Ministry for the Arts’ Visions of Australia program. Funding for insurance has been provided through the Queensland Government Exhibition Indemnification Scheme, administered by Arts Queensland. Project support has come from the Regional Arts Development Fund, a Queensland Government through Arts Queensland and Rockhampton Regional Council partnership to support local arts and culture.
