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two views

Romanticism:

Eugene von Guerard, Cape Schanck, 1865

Cape Schanck lies at the southern extremity of Mornington Peninsula approximately 70 km from Melbourne. The painting is very much a European way of seeing the Australian landscape.

Modernism:

Fred Williams, Hardy River, Mount Turner syncline, 1979

This is a part of a series of representations made by Fred Wiliams of the Pilbara landscape. It is the landscape of gorges, mountains and fascinating flat-topped mesas - as well as wildflowers.

This starts to break away from the European way of seeing nature towards a non European one.

Posted by Gary Sauer-Thompson at July 6, 2004 11:03 PM | TrackBack