Art Club 2

Today on Art Club, we have for you part of the bound to be continuing Nolan series - I considered putting up a different artist day to day as well, but thought that would come across too scattergun - so, now that we have his most famous piece out of the day (see yesterday), onto the wider range.



Sidney Nolan, Woman on Beach 1940

One of his earliest pieces, the colours of this one are immediately striking to me. During his time at the National Gallery School in Melbourne, Nolan had devoured the modern artists such as Gaugain, van Gogh, Matisse and Picasso, and I can see the influence, particularly of the latter two, in this work.