Renowned as Australia's foremost surrealist painter and poet, James Gleeson's oeuvre explores the human condition beyond visible reality and the limitations of the senses through powerful enigmas of fleshy biomorphic, mechanical and illusionistic landscape forms. James Gleeson Australian, 1915-2008 Following Follow 233 Follower s Known as the Father of Australian Surrealism, artist, poet, and critic James Gleeson examines human nature in Surrealist landscapes. His interest in classical figures and mythology inspired by artists like William Blake and El Greco, along with his. Read more
James Gleeson Art Gallery of NSW
James Gleeson 05 November - 26 November, 2016 James Gleeson 13 November - 06 December, 2014 James Gleeson: Uncertain Times 04 September - 27 September, 2008 James Gleeson 03 October - 21 October, 2006 View all exhibitions Works by the Artist Winter Dreams James Gleeson 1991 watercolour on paper, 27.00 x 37.00 Price: $3,500 View More Moontrap James Timothy Gleeson AO (21 November 1915 - 20 October 2008) was an Australian artist. [1] He served on the board of the National Gallery of Australia . Early life Gleeson was born in the Hornsby in 1915 and attended East Sydney Technical College from 1934 to 1936. [1] James Gleeson was one of Australia's greatest artists, and the country's foremost surrealist painter. Unlike his contemporaries, who merely dabbled in surrealism, Gleeson remained true to its. Painted in the final year of the Second World War, The citadel expresses James Gleeson's revulsion at the inhumanity and horror of war. Gleeson merges the human body with landscape in a nightmarish vision of writhing entrails and orifices rising like a cliff against a high horizon.. Born in Sydney in 1915, Gleeson studied art between 1934.
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Untitled (720) by James Gleeson (19152008, Australia) Art Reproductions James Gleeson
James Gleeson: beyond the screen of sight includes 80 paintings and works on paper from public, corporate and private collections throughout Australia. Many of these works have not been seen since their initial exhibition and several have been recently repatriated to Australia. Gleeson's subsequent wartime paintings were to become more confronting in their use of imagery. James Gleeson, born in 1915, became Surrealism's most prominent practitioner and advocate in Australia. In the late 1930s Gleeson studied at the East Sydney Technical College and the Sydney Teachers College where he had access to a large library. James Gleeson Australia 21 Nov 1915 - 20 Oct 2008 Artist profile Details Date 1951 Media category Painting Materials used oil on canvas Dimensions 127.5 x 96.8 cm stretcher; 148.3 x 117.5 x 4.2 cm frame Signature & date Signed l.r. corner, red oil "Gleeson". Gleeson attended the East Sydney Technical College (1934-36), exhibiting early Surrealist works at the Contemporary Art Society in Melbourne in 1938. In 1941 he delivered his treatise, The Necessity for Surrealism , advocating 'the real anarchy of thought,' and maintaining that this was a means to liberate humanity from the constraints of.
James Gleeson Artworks Exhibited
Beauty and the beast: the art of James Gleeson, War Memorial Art Gallery, University of Sydney, Sydney, 28 Aug 2002-03 Oct 2002. James Gleeson: drawings for paintings, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 12 Apr 2003-15 Jun 2003. James Gleeson: Beyond the screen of sight, Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, Melbourne, 29 Oct 2004-27 Feb 2005 James Gleeson 1915 - 2008 Biography Born in 1915, James Gleeson is highly respected in the Australian art world not only as an artist, but also as an author, critic, and lecturer. Gleeson was born in Sydney and bought up by his Aunt and Mother, as he was three when his father died.
James Gleeson, born in 1915, is Australia's best known Surrealist, its longest practitioner and leading advocate. Indeed, he says, 'I was born a Surrealist'.. he was not able to travel to Europe until 1948 and see firsthand the great works of Western art. In the summer of 1948, Gleeson travelled to Italy for the first time. Home Art Collection Title The arrival of implacable gifts 1985 Artist James Gleeson Australia 21 Nov 1915 - 20 Oct 2008 Artist profile Details Date 1985 Media category Painting Materials used oil on canvas Dimensions 198.0 x 245.0 cm stretcher; 204.0 x 251.7 x 3.4 cm frame Signature & date
Synaptic displacement, (1958) by James Gleeson The Collection Art Gallery NSW
James Gleeson is one of Australia's best known surrealist artists. He has worked for more than 70 years as a painter, critic and poet; and for more than 60 years as an exponent of surrealism, promoting the movement as a methodology to understand the nature of reality and our reactions to it. BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES James Timothy Gleeson was born in Hornsby (Sydney) on 21 November 1915. He studied art at East Sydney Technical College and teaching at the Sydney Teachers College, where his first surrealist painting City on a tongue 1938 was included in a student exhibition. He has exhibited regularly since 1939, although for a while writing, especially poetry, occupied Gleeson almost as.
