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Sir Sidney Robert Nolan OM AC CBE RA (22 April 1917 – 28 November 1992) was one of Australia's leading artists of the 20th century. Working in a wide variety of media, his oeuvre is among the most diverse and prolific in all of modern art.
Nov 28, 1992 · Sir Sidney Nolan was one of Australia’s most significant modernist artists, best known for his depictions of the history and mythology of bush life in Australia.
Nov 28, 1992 · Sidney Nolan was one of the most significant and celebrated figures in Australian art. He received his formal training at the National Gallery of Victoria Art School in Melbourne.
Sidney Nolan. Here at The Rodd in rural Herefordshire, Nolan’s last home, the Sidney Nolan Trust has inherited the artist’s last magnificent series of paintings and the 17th-century barn in which they were painted.
Sir Sidney Nolan was an artist known for his paintings based on Australian folklore. With little formal art training, Nolan turned to painting at age 21 after varied experiences as a racing cyclist, cook, and gold miner.
Sidney Nolan, n.d. Australian National University Archives, 12466. Sir Sidney Robert Nolan (1917—1992), artist, was born on 22 April 1917 at Carlton, Melbourne, eldest of four children of locally born parents Sidney Henry Nolan, military policeman, and his wife Dora Irene, née Sutherland.
Aug 11, 2018 · Sidney Nolan’s 1946–47 paintings on the theme of the 19th-century bushranger Ned Kelly are one of the greatest series of Australian paintings of the 20th century. Nolan’s starkly simplified depiction of Kelly in his homemade armour has become an iconic Australian image.
Sidney Nolan (1917–1992) contributed one of the most distinctive and complex artistic visions in Australian 20th-century art. His propensity for visual invention matched with a strong poetic sensibility resulted in works that redefined perceptions of place and nation in Australia’s cultural imagination.
Sidney Nolan (1917–92) painted troubled colonial presences in the landscape, using them to explore the way myths, histories and people shape our perceptions of place. He most famously drafted these ideas in his 1946–47 series on the bushranger Ned Kelly.
Having become recognised as Australia’s most internationally celebrated artist, the imaginative and energetic, Sidney Nolan famously coupled his innovative, impulsive and vastly experimental painting style with a deep affinity for Australian folklore to create many of the most iconic Australian images known to art circles worldwide.
