Tom Roberts' Shearing the rams
AGWA is home for the next few months to one of Australia's iconic colonial-era paintings. Tom Roberts' Shearing the rams on loan from the National Gallery of Victoria until late July, in return for the loan of one of AGWA's much-loved paintings, Droving into the light, which features in the NGV exhibition Hans and Nora Heysen: Two Generations of Australian Art. @artgallerywa #artgallerywa #seethingsdifferently
Venue: Art Gallery of WA
Address: Perth Cultural Centre, Perth, Western Australia
Date: 13 February - 28 July 2019
Time: 10am-5pm, Wed - Mon (closed Tue)
Ticket: FREE
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Address: Perth Cultural Centre, Perth, Western Australia
Date: 13 February - 28 July 2019
Time: 10am-5pm, Wed - Mon (closed Tue)
Ticket: FREE
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EMail: admin@artgallery.wa.gov.au
Call: +61 8 9492 6600
Shearing the rams hangs alongside AGWA's own Down on his luck by Frederick McCubbin, and gives you a rare opportunity to see these two great nationalistic narrative paintings side-by-side. Both works take rural subject matter as the starting point for their images of Australian identity, but Roberts presents a positive vision of the pastoral industry, far removed from McCubbin's image of a struggling pioneer.
Roberts based his painting on sketches made in a shearing shed in country New South Wales. The close observation of details and atmospheric effects, together with the sense of this being a snapshot of a fleeting moment, gives the painting an aura of 'truth', which has helped to secure its popularity for many generations. It is a great example of Roberts' statement that if art is "the perfect expression of one time and place, it becomes art for all time and of all places".
Roberts based his painting on sketches made in a shearing shed in country New South Wales. The close observation of details and atmospheric effects, together with the sense of this being a snapshot of a fleeting moment, gives the painting an aura of 'truth', which has helped to secure its popularity for many generations. It is a great example of Roberts' statement that if art is "the perfect expression of one time and place, it becomes art for all time and of all places".