PublishedArt Gallery Of South Australia, April 2021 |
ISBN9781921668463 |
FormatHardcover, 208 pages |
Dimensions27.8cm × 25.6cm × 2.4cm |
Admired for her distinctive ethereal paintings of incidental scenes The present moment: The art of Clarice Beckett sheds new light on the artist's spiritual impulses. It provides the reader with an outline of the international cultural trends that inspired her practice and shaped her visions of nature.
Now regarded as one of Australia's most important and influential modernist painters, its richly detailed analysis and lavish colour reproductions reveal to the reader previously hidden dimensions of her life and art. Associated with a legendary story of neglect and rediscovery this book celebrates Clarice Beckett as a visionary mystic.
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Stacked in a lean-to shed, open to the elements for over 20 years, more than 1600 of Beckett's works lay slowly rotting. 360 paintings were rescued from the debris in 1970.
Beckett's work is an ode to the ever shifting effects of light in the Australian landscape. Unappreciated and unknown in her lifetime, her story one of tragedy, her work is now critically acknowledged for her individualistic modernism style.
If you ever get a chance to see her work in person, please do. I have never been so transfixed by an art piece before. I stared at Wet sand, Anglesea for an hour and a half - the sand seemed to ebb and flow from the changing light, yet nothing in the room changed. A beautiful piece that captured the Australian heat like I've never seen before
