National Gallery of Australia | Audio Tour | George.W.Lambert Retrospective
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Audio guide to seventeen key works from the 2007 NGA George.W.Lambert Retrospective : heroes& icons shown at the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra. 29 June – 16 September 2007
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- Audio guide to seventeen key works from the 2007 NGA George.W.Lambert Retrospective : heroes& icons shown at the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra. 29 June – 16 September 2007
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| 2007-09-21 |
George LAMBERT, Chesham Street [Chesney Street; The Doctor; Harley Street] 1910 Chesham Street is one of a group of ‘puzzle pictures’ that Lambert painted between 1910 and 1914. These paintings appear to have a meaning and yet are not strictly narrative; they invite the viewer to provide their own interpretation. This is a bravur... |
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| 2007-09-21 | In Lotty and a lady , Lambert presented an apparently everyday kitchen scene in which the housemaid, Lotty, is in command of her kitchen, looking out comfortably at the viewer. The lady, with head in profile and dressed for outdoors in hat and gloves, ... |
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| 2007-09-21 | Who are these important people? Lambert presented a group of ordinary people at a time when the subjects of group portraits were often people with wealth or status in society. He mocked the assumption that importance is a matter of money or property. H... |
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| 2007-09-21 | Australian printmaker, designer, painter and teacher Thea Proctor (1879–1966) was significant in Lambert’s life as a friend, colleague and model. She studied with Julian Ashton in Sydney where Lambert was a fellow student. Chaperoned by her mother, she... |
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George LAMBERT, Recumbent figure of a soldier (Unknown soldier) [Unknown soldier] 1928-31 Recumbent figure of a soldier is a starkly simple, natural image of a typical Australian digger. Lambert portrayed this soldier with a bullet hole in his left breast, his right arm reaching towards this wound as if to still the pain, and through his fr... |
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| 2007-09-21 | On 25 April 1915 Australian and New Zealand troops landed on Gallipoli at dawn. It was one of two main assaults on the Gallipoli peninsula. The Anzacs were to land near the promontory of Gaba Tepe, about halfway up the peninsula, while British forces l... |
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| 2007-09-21 |
George LAMBERT, The charge of the 3rd Light Horse Brigade at the Nek, 7 August 1915 1924 George LAMBERT, The charge of the 3rd Light Horse Brigade at the Nek, 7 August 1915 1924, oil on canvas, 152.5 (h) x 305.7 (w) cm, Australian War Memorial, Canberra, commissioned in 1919, acquired in 1925 |
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| 2007-09-21 | The squatter’s daughter created a stir in Australia when it was first exhibited in 1924 because Lambert was concerned with creating a new way of painting Australian landscape. He assimilated the blue-and-gold palette that Streeton had used to convey th... |
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| 2007-09-21 | In Self-portrait with gladioli Lambert deliberately depicted himself as a precious, self-assured aesthete. In this, he visualised the thoughts expressed in a letter to Amy on 25 November 1921: I am a luxury, a hot house rarity ... Scoffed at for preci... |
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| 2007-09-21 | Lambert’s best-known bush image, Across the blac k soil plains was inspired by his memories of horse teams hauling heavily laden wool wagons across the bare, miry, flat lands of Snakes Plain from Warren to the railway station at Nevertire. He encounter... |
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