Australian Surrealism: The Agapitos Wilson collection.
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Title
Australian Surrealism: The Agapitos Wilson collection.
Venues
National Gallery Of Australia (16 February 2008 – 11 May 2008)
Date
(2008)
Summary
Multi-artist collection. Located: Australia (ACT). Paintings, Prints, Drawings, Photographs, Sculpture
Curator
Elena Taylor
Country of context
Australia
Abstract
Surrealism, the great revolutionary movement originating in France in the 1920s, was to change the course of Australian art in the 1940s. A generation of Australian artists including James Gleeson, Sidney Nolan, Albert Tucker, Arthur Boyd and Max Dupain encountered Surrealism at a formative time in their careers, and its influence transformed their art forever.
Drawn from the recently acquired James Agapitos OAM, and Ray Wilson OAM, collection of Australian Surrealist art, this exhibition shows the extraordinary breadth of Surrealist practice in this country from the 1920s to the 1950s. [Gallery media, 2008].