Sidney Nolan
Sir Sidney Robert Nolan (/ˈnoʊlən/; 22 April 1917 – 28 November 1992) is regarded as one of Australia's great artists.[1][2] He used many art forms including painting, drawing, printmaking, set design (for theatre), murals, spray painting and collage. He created over 10,000 individual art works,[1][3] considered a prolific, or large, number of works of art.[2][4][5]
Nolan is famous for his set of 27 Ned Kelly paintings.[1] His friend, Sunday Reed, donated 25 of the paintings to the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra, where a special room has been built to display them.[6] In 2010 one of the Kelly paintings was given to the National Gallery of Victoria.[7] One of the Kelly paintings not owned by the museum was sold in March 2010 for AU$5.4 million. This was the highest price ever paid for an Australian painting.[8]
Nolan was born in Carlton, Victoria on 22 April 1917.[3] He attended Prahran Technical College and studied art at the National Gallery School in Melbourne.[1] In 1948 he moved to Sydney, New South Wales and then in 1953 he moved to London where he stayed until his death on 28 November 1992.[1]
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Heide I, where Nolan painted the majority of his early Ned Kelly works
In 1952, Nolan documented the effects of drought in outback Queensland. His photographs of desiccated animals were a catalyst for his later drought paintings.
Grave of Sidney Nolan in Highgate Cemetery
The Museum of Old and New Art in Hobart, Tasmania, was built to accommodate Nolan's Snake (1970–72), a giant Rainbow Serpent mural made of 1,620 individual paintings.
Detail of the three-dimensional frieze at the base of the Nolan apartment building in Docklands, Melbourne, inspired by Nolan's abstracted depiction of Ned Kelly's helmet and the Australian landscape
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Sir Sidney Robert Nolan. Design and Art Australia Online (2011). Retrieved 10 November 2016.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Cuthbertson, Debbie. Sidney Nolan: Australian Synchrotron helps reveal the man behind the Ned Kelly mask (April 22, 2017)Sidney Morning Herald. Retrieved 2 July 2017.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Sidney Nolan | AboutSidney Nolan Trust. Retrieved 10 Nov 2016.
- ↑ Australia's modernist painters – Arthur Boyd, Sidney Nolan, Albert Tucker and Joy Hester – Melbourne 1940sAustralian Government. Retrieved 2 July 2017.
- ↑ Underhill, Nancy D.H.. Nolan, Sir Sidney Robert (Sid) (1917–1992) (2016)Australian Dictionary of Biography. Retrieved 2 July 2017.
- ↑ New Home for Ned Kelly. National Gallery of Australia (2011). Retrieved 10 November 2016.
- ↑ Nolan Artwork an Early Birthday Present for the NGV. National Gallery of Victoria (23 April 2010). Retrieved 10 Nov 2016.
- ↑ Vincent, Michael. Nolan's Ned Kelly no steal at $5.4m. ABC News (26 March 2010). Retrieved 10 Nov 2016.