Drawn from life.
Title
Drawn from life.
Collective title
A National Gallery of Australia travelling exhibition.
Venues
Queen Victoria Museum And Art Gallery None
Ballarat Fine Art Gallery. None
Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery None
Ivan Dougherty Gallery [2]. (17 April 1997 – 17 May 1997)
Date
(1997)
Summary
Multi-artist exhibition. Located: Australia (NSW).
Curator
Clark, Deborah.
Web address
https://cofa.unsw.edu.au/unsw-galleries/drawn-fro…
Abstract
The relationship between life drawing and the genre of the nude in European art is complex and reflexive, and the diversity of drawings in Drawn from Life attests to differing sexual and cultural meanings of the nude. A few of the works are overtly erotic, and push life drawing to the margins of art-historical respectability, to the edge of the pornographic. Many are undeniably sensual and intimate. They question the relationship between artist, model and viewer, one that is of critical significance in our understanding of the place of the nude in European culture.
[Exhibition media, 1997].
Artists in exhibition: Ian Armstrong, Julian Ashton, George Bell, Jean Bellette, Vivienne Binns, Karna Birmingham, Elise Blumann, Stella Bowen, Arthur Boyd, John Brack, Horace Brodzky, Rupert Bunny, George Coates, Sybil Craig, Grace Crowley, Janet Dawson, William Dobell, Russell Drysdale, Rah Fizelle, Donald Friend, Henry Gibbons, Brent Harris, Ivor Hele, Joy Hester, Frank Hinder, Nan Hortin, George W. Lambert, John Longstaff, Mildred Lovett, Francis Lymburner, Bea Maddock, Rosemary Madigan, Max Meldrum, Godfrey Miller, Sidney Nolan, Adelaide Perry, Ada May Plante, Thea Proctor, Peter Purves Smith, Hugh Ramsay, Constance Stokes, Arthur Streeton, William Strutt, Eveline Syme, Dorothy Thornhill, Barbara Tribe, John R. Walker, Christine Waller, Charles Wheeler Fred Williams, Eric Wilson.
Last Updated
23 Jul 2024