Digital resources tagged with ‘Betty Churcher’

Ballet Russe

The National Gallery of Australia is home to one of the world's finest collections of costumes from the celebrated Ballets Russes.

Fiona Hall

The exquisitely delicate work of Australian artist Fiona Hall reminds us of the fragile diversity of the natural world.

Internationalism & Regionalism in Pottery

Whereas Sydney artist Anne Dangar moved to France to focus on cubist design in ceramics, Merric Boyd and Milton Moon looked to the Australian landscape for inspiration for their pottery.

J.W. Lindt -- The Mechanical Eye of the Camera

It's often said that the camera doesn't lie but the photograph can be manipulated like any other art form.

Linocuts of Black, Syme & Spowers

Dorrit Black, Eveline Syme and Ethel Spowers introduced to Australia a dream of European modernism--to bring art to the masses through affordable linocuts.

Matisse & Islam

Islamic art, the Tahitian islands and the circus all provided inspiration for French artist Henri Matisse.

Max Ernst Collection & Lake Sentani Figures

The indigenous art of Africa, the Americas and Oceania inspired European artists such as Jacob Epstein and Max Ernst, who in turn were an inspiration for Australian painter Albert Tucker.

Natalia Goncharova & Alexandra Exter

Natalia Goncharova and Alexandra Exter were both Russian artists but where one moved to Paris and incorporated folk art traditions into her work, the other was drawn back to Bolshevik Russia and embraced the revolutionary art of constructivism.

Poster Mania

In the late 19th century, art literally took to the streets as Paris was flooded with eye-catching posters, made possible by the invention of lithography.

South Sea Islander in London

Omai, a young Tahitian warrior who joined Captain James Cook’s second voyage, had his portrait painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds and inspired a spectacular pantomime at Covent Garden.

The Australian Surrealists

In response to the Second World War, a group of talented young Australians drew on the 'dream' imagery of European surrealism to express their disquiet at world events.

The Flower Hunter

Victorian flower painter Ellis Rowan rocked the Australian art establishment when she won the Centennial Art Prize in 1888.

The Godfrey Shawl

Among the Natioinal Gallery of Australia's rarely seen treasures is an astonishing embroidered shawl from Kashmir in India--one off the finest and rarest of its kind.

The Photographer and the Painter

Artists working in different media have created a visual time capsule showing Melbourne in the late 1800s.

Tommy McRae & Mickey of Ulladulla

Working at the end of the 19th century, Aboriginal artists Tommy McRae and Mickey of Ulladulla drew the world around them with an extraordinary vitality and sensitivity to detail.

Violet Teague & Jessie Traill

Violet Teague and Jessie Traill were part of a remarkable group of independent women who, in the early 20th century, were able to devote their lives to art.

William Dobell - Sketchbooks

Perhaps more than most painters, William Dobell's art relied on drawing so his sketchbooks are invaluable to our appreciation of his work.