Monday, 18 May 2015

Australian Gum Blossom Sophie Frasle


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 Australias 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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