Cubism & Australian Art

Editorial

The avant-garde movement known as Cubism, and created by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, revolutionised art in the 20th century. Even though it became prominent in the 1920s, it's still affecting art today - especially here in Australia. Heide Museum of Modern Art is holding a major exhibition exploring the impact this very distinctive and challenging school of art had in Australia.

Curated by Lesley Harding and Sue Cramer, this exhibition begins with early Cubism in the 1920s and how this influenced Australian artists studying overseas. It also covers post-war years up until the 1960s, when Cubism gave life to Abstract art and its more subtle influence from the 1980s onwards. It's the first time that such an exhibition has explored this in depth and it highlights the adaptation and evolution of Cubist ideas and forms over the last century.

Over 200 works from 80 international and local artists are included in the exhibition, ranging from sculpture, installations, collage and the moving image. Important examples of Cubist art works from both international and Australian artists are also featured, including Alexander Archipenko, Sidney Nolan, Albert Tucker, Melinda Harper, Daniel Crooks and Robert Rooney. A new major publication, Cubism & Australian Art, published by The Miegunyah Press imprint of Melbourne University Press,  launches at the opening of the exhibition.

For more information, visit: www.heide.com.au

Images:
Robert Rooney
After Colonial Cubism 1993
Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne
Purchased through the Heide Foundation with the assistance of the Heide Foundation
Collectors' Group and the Robert Salzer Fund

Melinda Harper
Untitled 2000
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased through the National Gallery of Victoria Foundation by Robert Gould, Benefactor, 2004

Tim Hunter, Citysearch