A CENTURY IN FOCUS 1840s-1940s SOUTH AUSTRALIA PHOTOGRAPHY at Art Gallery of South Australia
If you live in South Australia, you must visit this exhibition. in this exhibition visitors could see the development of photography, especially at south Australia. in 1840s photography is an expensive thing. only rich people can afford to have pictures of their children or families. visitors also can enjoy the fashion of that era, for example all the women at that era wore ball gown. during 1860s there were a lot of landscape and city scape pictures. the exhibition combined photography and technology as well, so we can explore which building that already built at that era and which still exist to present day. interestingly, we could see that after south terrace there were empty land, and then in a faraway distance there were the suburb, the farms. i can imagine the paintings of Turramurra’s scenery (a suburb at Sydney) by Grace Cossington Smith. it’s similar with the pictures images. and perhaps like Laura Inggalls story, people from suburb have to travel by their horse wagon to buy sumthin in the city once a month. cool.. back to the exhibition, i like a picture of a scene about St.Peter college students playing cricket at their school ground at annual match versus an aboriginal team. great, it’s like the friendship of the colonised and the native people, eventhough still with the western style. in addition, that scene also reminded me to enid blyton’s books. hehe.. In 1900s ethnography and anthropology flourised. there were a lot of pictures of the native of south australia, especially Baldwin Spencer’s expedition. during that time, pers photography started to develop. the news of a new train or a train accident were documented.as well as world war I photography. finally, during the 1940s visitors can see that there were already professional photography. the photographer took a picture from unique angles, vary fashionable. and they already had studios for professional wedding photoghraphy, etc.
although the exhibition was not like what i expected before, it still worth seeing. by this i mean that when i want to visit this exhibition, i expected that there will be city scape photography such as king william st or rundle street in a giant wall size, but actually it were real picture, so they display it small on the frame hanging at gallery’s wall. FYI, the pictures are a lot, so to enjoy it perhaps you need around one hour. furthermore, some pictures that displayed inside the vitrin still intact with its old album.
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GRACE CROWLEY BEING MODERN at ART GALLERY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA
from the 10th of July to the 28th of October 2007, art gallery of south australia held grace crowley being modern exhibition. at that exhibition, visitors could see and learn more about crowley’s works and life. she first painted farm and rural scenes during her early career in australia, when she studied at Sydney art school with Julian Ashton. when she studied at Paris under Andre Lhote’s guidance, she painted with cubism technique. right before return home she learned some technique from albert gleizes. it was make her changed her style after going back home. she painted semi-figurative style. finally, she moved toward geometric abstraction at the final stage of her painting career. the display of this exhibition allowed visitors to see the development of her painting style, from post-impressionist, cubist, semi-figurative to abstraction.
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WONDERFUL WORLD AT ANNE GORDON SAMSTAG MUSEUM OF ARTS UNI SA
Celebrating its grand opening, Uni SA’s Anne Gordon Samstag Museum of Arts held temporary exhibition Wonderful World. It is a unique exhibition, combined art works with technology. At the first floor the visitors can enjoy paintings such as huge clouds paintings, city scene silhouette painting and aborigines traditional paintings which represented their beloved land. One can also enjoy under water photography of a woman who jump into dark water. It resulting the contrast colour of dark water and the white bubles. There are also 3 flat TVs, shows moving photo inside, with digital effects. At the second floor visitors can enter a dark room with movie on its 4 sides wall, about everything in this world. i mean the movie is shows city scenes, natural scenes, events, daily life, etc, showed us that we life in a such wonderful world. The movie allow us to watch it from several perspectives too. other works on display are a number of pictures about natural life such as birds in the forest, bear, jaguar, and mountain goat in the snowy mountain. We can hear its sound as well by using the head phone. the last room at second floor is another movie room illustrates the disaster in this world. volcanoes, tsunami, forest fires, wars, pollution, etc.
This exhibition is a must visit exhibition. Its message is we live in a such wonderful world, we have to look at it from several perspectives, and because of our own fault we destroyed it. so please don’t destroy our WONDERFUL WORLD. In addition, this exhibition is free without any fees to enter!
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TREASURES OF THE SPIRIT CREATIVE RETURNS: INVESTING IN ABORIGINAL ART at TANDANYA
To increase investment in Aborigin Art, the Tandanya held an exhibition called Treasures of the Spirit Creative Returns: Investing in Aboriginal Art, curated by Rosie Potter. This exhibition shows approximately 50 works from rural as well as urban Aborigin artist, both paintings, prints and sculptures. The paintings hang in blue, green, yellow and white walls while the sculptures display in sand area. Works displayed there varied from iconic landscape paintings by western and central desert artists such as Kathleen Petyarre, Emily Kame Kngwarreye, Tjungu Palya artists groups, etc; dreaming stories such as Craig Allan Charles’s Whale Spirit 2006, Abie Loy’s Bush Hen Dreaming 2006; to Broken Leg Story by Ian Abdulla. Many works by urban artists such as Brenda Crofts’s Jesus Wants Me for a Sunbeam 1998 can be seen also. It is a must visit exhibition.
This exhibition is in Tandanya, 253 Grenfell Street Adelaide SA, from the 10th of August to the 28th of October 2007. $4 to enter the exhibition plus a gold coin if you want to bring home the exhibition cataloque .
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