At first glance artists Ethel Carrick and Anne Dangar seem to have little in common besides gender and career choice, but a new exhibition at the National Gallery of Australia is inviting visitors to take a closer look.
At first glance, artists Ethel Carrick and Anne Dangar seem to have little in common, besides gender and career choice.
"In the case of Carrick, she brought post-impressionism to Australia in the case of Dangar, she advocated for cubism. "She really is one of Australia's most important but under-acknowledged modern artists," Dr Edwards said. "She's also among a very small group of Australian artists to ever form part of the European Avant Garde in the 20th century; the only to meaningfully contribute to cubism in France."
"Through being a woman and working as a potter and being an expatriate, she's always remained at the periphery of Australian Art History, rather than at the centre," Dr Hart said.
"So, it was still quite rare and quite radical for women to set up outdoors she really used places like the Luxembourg Gardens as an outdoor studio, and she would paint these very fresh, vibrant scenes in a post-impressionist manner." "If you go through her exhibition catalogs, the vast majority of them were 'Ethel Carrick', sometimes with 'Mrs. Phillips Fox' in brackets. So, it was a radical move."
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