Title
Figures in a classical landscape
Artist
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Details
- Media category
- Textile
- Materials used
- batik/printed silk
- Dimensions
- 122.1 x 74.7 cm
- Credit
- Purchased 1973
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 8.1973
- Copyright
- Artist information
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Frank Weitzel
Works in the collection
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About
From the mid 1920s, a modern revival in batik painting was popularised in part by artist–designer Frank Weitzel who produced sophisticated art-deco styled batiks. The taste for modern batiks at this time was related to the promotion of Java as a leisure destination for Australians in lifestyle magazines such as 'The Home'.
Sydney’s postwar economic boom resulted in a decade in which commerce and culture became closely entwined. Many artists, including Weitzel, were prompted to expand their work into design and decorative arts. The idea that artists could double as decorators was popularised by the philosophies of the German Bauhaus art school and the British modernist movement that sought to instil the values of abstract art in everyday life.
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Exhibition history
Shown in 2 exhibitions
Sydney Moderns, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 06 Jul 2013–07 Oct 2013
20th-Century galleries, ground level (rehang), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 20 Aug 2022–2023
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Bibliography
Referenced in 1 publication
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Natasha Bullock, Sydney moderns: art for a new world, 'Harold Cazneaux's New Idea portraits', pg. 92-97, Sydney, 2013, 94, 114, 116 (colour illus.), 164, 317, 324.
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