DR BEVERLEY CASTLEMAN

Historically significant works by the modernist indigenous landscape and watercolour artists of The Hermannsburg School in Central Australia. THE HERMANNSBURG SCHOOL OF MODERN ART: The Watercolourists of Central Australia Stunning Aboriginal landscapes lit up the lives of white Australians during the 1940s, 50s and 60s. The romantic, luminous watercolour landscapes on paper from Central Australia, west of Alice Springs, were created... Most modernist figurative landscape art in Australia reflected a sense of isolation especially in relation to the outback or central Australia, notably in the frontier like landscapes of Drysdale, Boyd, Nolan and Tucker. For these romantic expressionists the landscape was the stage for human drama rather than the subject as it was with the Arrernte artists.

Also known as: The Hermannsburg School