Books and learning
Art books on Australian painting worth keeping on the shelf
Survey histories, gallery catalogues and monographs on Australian painting: which books to start with, how to judge a catalogue, and where to find them cheaply.
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Australian painting
Painters, movements and prizes in Australian art, from the Heidelberg School to the present, told plainly.
Gallery-going
Visiting the Archibald Prize and its room full of faces
Where the Archibald came from, what its rules ask of a portrait, how the Wynne, Sulman, Packing Room and People's Choice fit in, and how to look at the walls.
Australian painting
Reading an Australian landscape painting
How Australian painters have handled light, distance and the horizon, from Heidelberg plein air to the aerial view, and how to read the marks on a canvas.