11 Facts About Australian art

Australian art is any art made in or about Australia, or by Australians overseas, from prehistoric times to the present.

Australia has produced many notable artists of both Western and Indigenous Australian schools, including the late-19th-century Heidelberg School plein air painters, the Antipodeans, the Central Australian Hermannsburg School watercolourists, the Western Desert Art Movement and coeval examples of well-known High modernism and Postmodern art.

Rock Australian art can be found within protected parks in urban areas such as Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park in Sydney.

Australian art remains notable for his artworks which recorded traditional Aboriginal ways for the education of Westerners .

Australian art's work has been regarded as softening the landscape to fit European sensibilities.

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Australian art was influenced by the Barbizon school painters, and so using a plein air technique, and a more domesticated and settled view of the land, in contrast to the emphasis on strangeness or danger prevalent in earlier painters.

Crucially, it opened an art school, important for the following generations of Australian-born and raised artists.

Origins of a distinctly Australian art painting tradition is often associated with the Heidelberg School of the late 19th century.

Central themes of their Australian art include manual labour, conquering the land, and an idealisation of the rural pioneer.

Australian art wrote letters home to his friend, Tom Roberts, updating him on developments in French impressionism.

Market for Aboriginal Australian art is still very strong, on the national and international stage, since becoming a solid financial investment in the 1980s.