Australian Tonalist School

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Australian Tonalist School
Circa 1922

About the Item

Australian Tonalism was an art movement that emerged in Melbourne during the 1910s. Known at the time as Tonal Realism or Meldrumism, the movement was founded by artist and art teacher Max Meldrum, who developed a unique theory of painting, the “Scientific Order of Impressions”. He argued that painting was a pure science of optical analysis, and believed that a painter should aim to create an exact illusion of spatial depth by carefully observing in nature tone and tonal relationships (shades of light and dark) and spontaneously recording them in the order that they had been received by the eye. Meldrum followers were many, among the most notable being Clarice Beckett, Colin Colahan and William Frater. Frater began staging group exhibitions at the Melbourne Athenaeum in 1919. They favoured painting in adverse weather conditions, and often went out together in the morning or towards evening in search of fog and wintry wet surfaces, which provided increased spatial effects. Their subtle, “Misty” depictions of Melbourne’s beaches and parks, as well as its everyday, unadorned suburbia, show an interest in the interplay between softness and structure, nature and modernity. The movement peaked during the interwar period, and the lingering influence can be seen in experimental works by other Australian artists, such as Lloyd Rees and Roland Wakelin. Although dismissed by many of their art world contemporaries, today the Australian Tonalists are well-represented in Australia’s major public art galleries, and are said to have initiated the first significant advance in Australian landscape painting since the Australian Impressionists of the 1880s.

Creation Year:
Circa 1922
Dimensions:
Height: 9.26 in (23.5 cm)Width: 11.82 in (30 cm)Depth: 0.79 in (2 cm)
Medium:
Canvas,Oil,Board
Movement & Style:
Impressionist
Period:
Early 20th Century
Condition:
The work is in good condition and framed within a high quality reproduction frame. It is glazed with anti-reflective invisible glass “ArtGlass AR70” which has UV block of 70% visible light transmission of 99% and a reflection of 1%.
Gallery Location:
Sydney, AU
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU1971210958842

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