What a blast to be given the opportunity to try to link literary themes to artistic expression in the visual arts!. I think I learnt as much as the students! Perhaps the most important insight of the morning is the extent to which Romanticism as expressed through early Australian art, gives such a powerful vision…
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Week One- and Blog Topics for your Week Two
Hi All, we are off to a very good start. Our tutorials managed to uncover some really interesting differences between the way the landscape was viewed in the early 19th Century and then in the early 20th Century. Mitchell and Lawrence make a very useful comparison. Mitchell is tied to language and ideas that he…
Clemente/Catalyst Students Go the NSW Art Gallery: The Links between Literature and Art!
One of the most exciting things I do several times each year is conduct literature students to the NSW Art Gallery to explore the ways in which paintings and sculptures can hugely expand our understanding of the way literature communicates meaning. One of my students (thank you Joey!) right at the start of our tour…
