Title Hidden treasures - inside the National Gallery of Australia. Internationalists and regionalism in pottery / directed and produced by John Hughes ; produced by Philippa Campey ; narrated by Betty Churcher

Published Canberra, Australian Capital Territory : National Film and Sound Archive of Australia, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (6 min.) Series Australasian video online Summary Anne Dangar left Sydney in 1930 at the age of 43 to throw in her lot with French artist Albert Gleizes, who'd set up an artists' colony in rural France. Gleizes was a second-generation cubist who wanted to introduce cubist design to the everyday life of ordinary people by applying abstract modernism to the artisan crafts of country folk. His workshop offered artists an escape from the standardisation of industrial mass-production and, for Dangar, this became almost a spiritual cause. Dangar dedicated her life selflessly to Gleizes' ideal. Trained as a painter, she mastered the art of pottery and built her own kiln using traditional peasant methods. Her own work displays a real flair for applied cubist design and exciting colour combinations. Merric Boyd chose his own way to return to nature, at his bush property at Murrumbeena on the outskirts of Melbourne. His bowls were handbuilt, his kiln woodfired, and his clay dug from the earth around his home. Unlike Dangar, he drew inspiration, not from international style, but from the bushland that surrounded his property, where he and his wife Doris established the famous Boyd dynasty of painters, potters and sculptors. Although not the first to use Australian motifs in his pottery, Merric Boyd's idiosyncratic pots and vases raised the use of Australiana in design to new levels of artistry and public popularity. Milton Moon's inspiration is also the landscape of Australia -not the things of the bush but the ancient, sunbaked, bushfire-blackened land itself. Both Moon and Boyd travelled widely but, unlike Dangar, they decided to draw their strength from the land of their birth. In a sense, regionalism and nationalism prevailed over internationalism Notes Title from resource description page (viewed November 3, 2014) In English Subject National Library of Australia -- Art collections SUBJECT National Library of Australia. fast (OCoLC)fst00545798 Subject National libraries -- Australia Artists -- Australia Pottery. Art museums. Artists. National libraries. Pottery. Australia. Genre/Form Documentary films. Documentary films. Documentaires. Form Streaming video Author Hughes, John. Campey, Philippa. Churcher, Betty, 1931-2015.

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