Edmonton lacked
a strong landscape tradition during and after the war, but in the 1970s Ron Myren and Brian Chubb produced strong new work influenced by Goodridge ROBERTS and W. L. Stevenson.
Not exact matches
The occasional shifts in orientation from vertical to horizontal, the
strong contrasts, and the shades of blue and green allude to the natural world and the
tradition of
landscape in American Modernist painting.
In jarring juxtapositions of contemporary, modernist and retro - futuristic motifs within classical
landscape compositions, Ged Quinn's large scale paintings combine anachronistic references to art and literature with the
strong traditions of
landscape and still - life painting.
His national
tradition of
landscape painting, young as it was, seemed
stronger, and when it was on the point of being embalmed in an Australian Academy of Art (luckily short lived) the reaction was urgent and noisy.