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Margaret Preston Art and Life Appendix SECTION 2 MARGARET PRESTON ART AND LIFE APPENDIX Margaret Preston: art & life Education Kit Art Gallery of New South Wales 1870s Timeline: Preston in context LEGEND: PRESTON BIOGRAPHY ART HISTORY AUSTRALIAN HISTORY WORLD HISTORY 1870 1871 1872 1873 1874 1875 1876 1877 1878 1879 29 April, Margaret Rose McPherson (Preston) born in Port Adelaide, South Australia 1870 – 1890 Jules Verne Impressionism Art publishes Around movement in the World in Europe Eighty Days British troops The last full Australian withdrawn from blooded population Australia Tasmanian exceeds 2 million aboriginal, people Truganini, dies Louise Pasteur Thomas Edison invents the invents the light technique of bulb pasteurisation. Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone Margaret Preston: art & life Education Kit Art Gallery of New South Wales 1880s Timeline: Preston in context LEGEND: PRESTON BIOGRAPHY ART HISTORY AUSTRALIAN HISTORY WORLD HISTORY 1880 1881 1882 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889 McPherson family moved to Sydney, New South Wales 1880 – 1893 Opening of the George Eastman Vincent van Gogh Post-Impressionist Melbourne railway invents the first paints Starry Night Art movement simple, 1883 – 1887 The Heidelberg inexpensive 1880 – 1914 Australian cricket School holds the camera Art Nouveau team established, 9 by 5 exhibition defeating Britain Thomas Edison in Melbourne in the first Ashes invents the movie series camera Sydney Bulletin founded Ned Kelly is hanged Celluloid photographic film is invented in the United States Margaret Preston: art & life Education Kit Art Gallery of New South Wales 1890s Timeline: Preston in context LEGEND: PRESTON BIOGRAPHY ART HISTORY AUSTRALIAN HISTORY WORLD HISTORY 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 Margaret Preston Preston sets up a enrols in National studio in the Gallery School’s centre of Adelaide School of Design, Melbourne Secessionist art Edvard Munch H.G. Wells movement paints The publishes War of Scream the Worlds National Waltzing Matilda Australian Labor Australasian is first sung in Party takes power Convention agrees public, in Winton, in Queensland, on adopting the Queensland becoming the first name trade union party Banjo Patterson “Commonwealth to do so anywhere publishes The of Australia” in the world Man From Snowy River X-ray technique is developed in Germany Louis and Auguste Lumiere invent motion pictures MargaretMargaret Preston:Preston: art & life Education Kit Art Gallery of New South WalesWales 1900s Timeline: Preston in context LEGEND: PRESTON BIOGRAPHY ART HISTORY AUSTRALIAN HISTORY WORLD HISTORY 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 Preston and Bessie Davidson travel to Munich and Paris 1905 – 1908 Pablo Picasso 1908 – 1918 1909 – 1929 Fauve Art paints Le Cubism Art Futurist Art Movement Demoiselle movement movement d’Avignon 1905 – 1913 Die Bruke Art Movement The Australian Australia becomes The Franchise Act Dorothea The first powered constitution is an independent guarantees Mackellar aeroplane flight in passed by the nation as of women the right publishes My Australia House of January 1 to vote in federal Country Commons and elections The first Canberra is House of Lords, parliament meets chosen as the London in Parliament national capital House, Melbourne Guglielmo Marconi The Wright Einstein publishes makes first radio brothers fly their his theory of transmission first aeroplane relativity Margaret Preston: art & life Education Kit Art Gallery of New South Wales 1910s Timeline: Preston in context LEGEND: PRESTON BIOGRAPHY ART HISTORY AUSTRALIAN HISTORY WORLD HISTORY 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 Preston and Preston leaves Gladys Reynell London for depart Adelaide Australia for London and 31 December, Paris Margaret Rose McPherson marries William George Preston 1911 – 1914 Marcel Duchamp Armory Show 1915 – 1923 De Stijl Art 1918 – 1939 Der Blaue Reiter paints Nude of Modern Art, Dada Art movement Art Deco Art Movement Descending a New York movement Staircase, no. 2 Australia sends First Australian 1914 – 1918 Australian soldiers Art in Australia women to the paper currency Australian troops land at Anzac founded by Olympic Games is issued fight in World Cove on the Sydney Ure smith for the first time War 1. First time Gallipoli Australians fought Peninsula, Turkey under the Australian flag 1914 – 1918 United States World War 1 enters World War 1 Bolshevik Revolution in Russia Margaret Preston: art & life Education Kit Art Gallery of New South Wales 1920s Timeline: Preston in context LEGEND: PRESTON BIOGRAPHY ART HISTORY AUSTRALIAN HISTORY WORLD HISTORY 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 Preston settles in Preston paints Margaret Preston Margaret Preston Margaret Preston Mosman, Sydney Thea Proctor’s tea paints Implement paints Aboriginal recent paintings party blue flowers 1929, is published. Features Preston’s The comprehensive artistic manifesto, ‘Margaret Preston’ ‘92 aphorisms by special number of Margaret Preston Art in Australia and others’, published, including Preston paints Preston’s ‘From Wheelflower eggs to Electrolux’ 1924 – 1945 Surrealism Art movement QANTAS is Edith Cowan Vegemite is first The first Federal founded becomes the first produced Parliament is held woman elected to in Canberra an Australian Australasian parliament Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) is formed Women granted Wall Street ‘crash’ right to vote in in United States United States 1929 – 1933 Great Depression Margaret Preston: art & life Education Kit Art Gallery of New South Wales 1930s Timeline: Preston in context LEGEND: PRESTON BIOGRAPHY ART HISTORY AUSTRALIAN HISTORY WORLD HISTORY 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 Preston paints Preston moves to Preston moves to Self portrait Berowra, Sydney ‘Den o’ Gwynne’ at Clifton Gardens, Sydney Salvador Dali Pablo Picasso 1939 – 1945 paints The paints Guernica Australian troops Persistence of fight in World Memory War 2 Don Bradman Sir Douglas The Sydney The last scores a record Mawson charts Harbour Bridge Tasmanian tiger 452 not out in one 4,000 miles of opens dies cricket innings Antarctic coastline and claims 42% Phar Lap wins its for Australia first Melbourne Cup Charles Kingsford- Smith completes a flight around the world Adolf Hitler’s Nazi 1939 – 1945 party takes over World War 2 Germany Margaret Preston: art & life Education Kit Art Gallery of New South Wales 1940s Timeline: Preston in context LEGEND: PRESTON BIOGRAPHY ART HISTORY AUSTRALIAN HISTORY WORLD HISTORY 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 Preston paints Preston paints Preston paints Preston prints Still-life, Australian Aboriginal Tank traps Billabong landscape Abstract Expressionism emerges in New York Howard Florey, Japan bombs Australia becomes Australia The first all Construction of the develops penicillin Darwin, Broome a founding introduces major Australian car is Snowy Mountains and Queensland member of the post-war produced by Hydro-Electric United Nations immigration Holden Scheme begins Three Japanese scheme midget submarines The Nationality enter Sydney and Citizenship Harbour and torpedo Act is passed, the HMAS Kuttabul establishing killing 22 men Australian citizenship separate Daylight saving from Britain introduced Japan bombs Atomic bombs George Orwell Chinese Pearl Harbour, dropped on publishes 1984 communist Party declares war on Hiroshima and takes control United States and Nagasaki, Japan of China Britain Margaret Preston: art & life Education Kit Art Gallery of New South Wales 1950s Timeline: Preston in context LEGEND: PRESTON BIOGRAPHY ART HISTORY AUSTRALIAN HISTORY WORLD HISTORY 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 Preston moves to Killarney Street, Mosman Pop Art movement The Antipodean begins exhibition held in Melbourne Australian troops Melbourne holds are sent to the the Summer Korean War Olympics 1950 – 1953 Colour television The USSR Korean War launched in United launches Sputnik, States the first satellite Margaret Preston: art & life Education Kit Art Gallery of New South Wales 1960s Timeline: Preston in context LEGEND: PRESTON BIOGRAPHY ART HISTORY AUSTRALIAN HISTORY WORLD HISTORY 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 October – Preston 28 May – Preston hospitalised dies at Mosman Private Hospital 1960s Op Art movement, Conceptual Art movement Mid 1960s Minimalist Art movement Indigenous The ban on the Indigenous Australia signs Australians gain employment of Australians gain the nuclear non- the right to vote married women the right to proliferation treaty in the citizenship Australia enters Commonwealth the Vietnam War Public Service is lifted The Berlin wall 1962 – 1975 United States The United States is built Vietnam War President John F astronaut Neil Kennedy is Armstrong, is first assassinated man to walk on the moon Margaret Preston: art & life Education Kit Art Gallery of New South Wales .
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