Australian
Gum Blossom
The painting ‘Australian gum Blossom’ was painted by Margaret Preston. She was an Australian
artist, born in 1875 in Port Adelaide her first passion for painting started
when she was twelve and she continued this passion throughout her life. She
went on to study at National Gallery of Victoria Art school for five years. In
1920 she became one of Australia’s leading modernist artists. She lived in the bush for most
of the 1930s and found a lot of inspiration for her landscape paintings with
her surroundings, and that is where she got her inspiration for her aboriginal
paintings too. She died on the 28th of May 1963.
Most of her paintings are based on
flowers and nature. A lot of her paintings have something Australian in them
and I think she did this because she wanted to show people how beautiful
Australia is. The painting ‘Australian Gum Blossom’ is a bunch of Australian native flowers and plants in a
large black pot. There are many different colours and textures, the flowers are
pink, red, white and orange. The Australian native plant in this photo is the
eucalyptus leaves that are scattered in the pot. The painting is made on oil on
canvas and the texture is almost like a ruff table. The artwork also includes shadowing from the
pot so this hows that there is a light coming through somewhere, this leaves
the viewer wondering what is beyond this painting. The repetition used in this
artwork are the flowers that are the main object.
Throughout Margaret Preston's
collection her paintings are Australian influenced, including The Sydney Bridge
(1957), aboriginal designs and black and white paintings. This Artwork is
currently in the Art Gallery of NSW, and I think that this painting reflects on
Margaret Preston and her life.
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