Hilda Rix Nicholas
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Hilda Rix Nicholas was an accomplished artist who set out to carve a place for herself alongside the most important male painters in Australia between the wars. Hilda Rix Nicholas was an accomplished artist who set out to carve a place for herself alongside the most important male painters in Australia between the wars. She painted several important pictures of women in the bush, and dared to suggest that women had been equal partners in the formation of the nation. Her achievements were impressive: she held several solo exhibitions in Europe and Australia, and in 1926 became an associate of the Societe Nationale des Beaux Arts in Paris. But despite these accomplishments she has been virtually ignored by art historians and her work has often been excluded from and marginalised in the writing of Australian art history. Rix Nicholas's work was hailed in Paris before World War I, and when she returned to Australia the critics were amazed by the power and strength of her painting, which seemed very new and modern. But the artist was not interested in the feminising modernism that was emerging in Australia at that time. Intent on establishing herself as the painter of Australia and desc
Author: Pigot John
Format: Hardback, 95 pages
Published: 1996, Melbourne University Press, Australia
Genre: Individual Artists / Art Monographs
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Hilda Rix Nicholas was an accomplished artist who set out to carve a place for herself alongside the most important male painters in Australia between the wars. Hilda Rix Nicholas was an accomplished artist who set out to carve a place for herself alongside the most important male painters in Australia between the wars. She painted several important pictures of women in the bush, and dared to suggest that women had been equal partners in the formation of the nation. Her achievements were impressive: she held several solo exhibitions in Europe and Australia, and in 1926 became an associate of the Societe Nationale des Beaux Arts in Paris. But despite these accomplishments she has been virtually ignored by art historians and her work has often been excluded from and marginalised in the writing of Australian art history. Rix Nicholas's work was hailed in Paris before World War I, and when she returned to Australia the critics were amazed by the power and strength of her painting, which seemed very new and modern. But the artist was not interested in the feminising modernism that was emerging in Australia at that time. Intent on establishing herself as the painter of Australia and desc
Hilda Rix Nicholas
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