The 228 Artworks containing the word continents - australia

This work appears surprisingly in the artist’s oeuvre, his first masterpiece after a long and conscientious apprenticeship. His old friend, artist Tom Roberts, fresh from Europe, must have played a role in its genesis, bringing firsthand news of developments there, particularly of plein air practice...

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Latai Taumoepeau describes herself as a punake, a Tongan term describing performance artists, such as dancers, who use their bodies as their medium. ‘Dark Continent’ 2018 is a selection of still photographs that documents Taumoepeau over a period of 48 hours, as she slowly stretched and contorted he...

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The Australian-born artist Fred Williams received his first artistic training at the National Gallery Art School in Melbourne, where he learned the traditional studio methods of drawing from the human figure. He traveled to England for several years of further study in London, where he also visited ...

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This is the earliest map depicting Australia as we know it, first published in 1811 as part of the official account of the Baudin expedition.Describing the Australian coastline explored by Nicolas Baudin/

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The Australian continent was first sighted in 1606 when Willem Janszoon sailed through the Gulf of Carpentaria aboard the /

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Like kangaroos, wombats and koalas, the Tasmanian tiger (Thylacinus cynocephalus) is a marsupial. It used to inhabit the Australian continent and was also known as Tasmanian wolf. Today, all that is left are descriptions, old photos and film reels and a few mounted animals in natural history collect...

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Upon returning to Australia in late 1956 after five years in London, Fred Williams saw the landscape of his own country through new eyes. The vast featureless spaces, undistinguished scrubby bush and harsh light of his homeland offered a distinct contrast to the picturesque English countryside with ...

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For most of his life Frank Hurley sought out and documented journeys of exploration and feats of adventure. In 1911, he secured a place for himself as official photographer on the Australasian Antarctic Expedition led by Sir Douglas Mawson. In 1913, after twelve months in Antarctica, the majority of...

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During the eighteenth century, views of Venice by Canaletto (born Giovanni Antonio Canal) were disseminated widely in Europe, as both paintings and prints. The artist produced these vedute primarily for the burgeoning tourist market in Italy, and particularly for wealthy Englishmen making what was c...

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