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A Study Guide by Marguerite O'hara © ATOM 2014 A STUDY GUIDE BY MARGUERITE O’HARA http://www.metromagazine.com.au ISBN: 978-1-74295-452-3 http://www.theeducationshop.com.au At eighty-five, John Olsen – widely regarded as Australia’s greatest living artist – embarks on the second largest mural of his career and shares his inspirational philosophy on life. Curriculum Links Synopsis This program would be a valuable resource for middle and In March 2013, John Olsen was commissioned by property senior secondary students of: developer Lang Walker to paint an 8 X 6 metre mural to be displayed in the public foyer of the new Collins Square • Art subjects including Studio Arts, Creative Arts, development in Melbourne in the Docklands precinct. John Painting and Drawing, Art History and Making Art was 85 years old when he was commissioned to paint this • Australian Studies mural, which was to be named ‘The King Sun’. • Cultural Studies • Biography John lives near Bowral in the Southern Highlands, two • Studies of Society and Environment hours south of Sydney. He decided to paint the mural in a studio on the property of Anna Hewgill and Tony Williams, The activities in the guide are designed to encourage in Robertson. students to explore the approach to painting displayed as we watch Olsen at work and hear his views on painting and The mural is comprised of eight panels made of marine ply, his drive to continue working for as long as possible. The joined together to create one very large painting, the total emphasis is very much on Olsen’s working method as we weight being 688 kilos. John walked on the mural in socks watch him creating this mural The King Sun. This is the first and painted with brushes attached to long sticks. He was film to have recorded the creation of one of his works from assisted by art consultant and friend Ken McGregor, and beginning to end. Olsen says that no other film has cap- 2014 © ATOM SCREEN EDUCATION artist Carlos Barrios. The mural took four months to com- tured his thoughts so intimately. plete. This documentary captures Olsen’s creative process as we see him working on this enormous work and musing A 2008 documentary film about John Olsen, directed by on the ageing process and his need to keep working. John Hughes, is titled An Unstoppable Force. This 2013 film clearly illustrates that description of Olsen and his work. The The King Sun, featuring John Olsen, is directed by Tony sun and light on the landscape has been a recurrent and Williams. It is produced by Anna Hewgill of Four Donkey central theme in much of Olsen’s work over his career. Films in association with ABC TV and Screen Australia. 2 Biography John Olsen was born in Newcastle on 21 January 1928 and In addition to painting and drawing, Olsen has worked in moved to Bondi Beach with his family in 1935, which began a wide range of media including printmaking, tapestries, his lifelong fascination with Sydney Harbour. He studied ceramics, ceiling paintings and murals. He is also a prolific art at the Datillo Rubbo Art School in the late 1940s and at writer, poet and inspirational teacher. Olsen published his the Julian Ashton Art School and East Sydney Technical diaries, under the title Drawn From Life, in 1997. College during the early 1950s. Olsen has been one of Australia’s most consistently hon- In 1956, a patron of the arts sponsored Olsen to go to oured artists. His work is represented in all the Australian Europe under the mentorship of Paul Haefliger. Although state gallery collections and the National Gallery of Olsen spent time in England and France, he resided mostly Australia. He has been the subject of a number of books in Majorca, Spain. This experience had a lasting influence and documentaries. He was awarded an OBE for ser- on his art. By the time Olsen returned to Sydney in 1960, vices to the arts in 1977, an Order of Australia in 2001, the his talent and originality were becoming widely recognised. Centenary Medal in 2001, and an honorary doctorate from Olsen’s paintings of the 1960s established him as one the University of Newcastle in 2011. He has also won many of the leading artists of his generation. From 1965–1967, awards over his long career including the Wynne Prize in Olsen returned to London and Portugal with his family, 1969 and 1985, the Sulman Prize (1989), the Australian mainly to study tapestry-making. Creative Fellowship (1993) and the Archibald Prize in 2005 with Self-portrait Janus Faced. In 1968 Olsen set up and ran the Bakery Art School in Sydney. In 1972–1973, he painted Salute to Five Bells, a Some of his most well-known artworks include Spanish mural inspired by Kenneth Slessor’s poem ‘Five Bells’ and Encounter (1960), Entrance to the Seaport of Desire (1964), commissioned by the Dobell Foundation for the newly com- Sydney Sun (1965), Salute to Five Bells (1972–3), the Lake pleted Sydney Opera House. Eyre series (1970s), Golden Summer, Clarendon (1983), Donde voy? Self-Portraits in Moments of Doubt (1989), and Olsen’s work has been marked by a deep engagement with Self-Portrait Janus Faced (2005). the Australian landscape and he has lived for long peri- ods in different parts of the country and travelled widely. Olsen lives near Bowral in New South Wales. Although he has been labelled as an abstract artist, Olsen rejects this accusation, stating, ‘I have never painted an abstract painting in my life’. He describes his work as ‘an 2014 © ATOM SCREEN EDUCATION exploration of the totality of landscape’. His passionate interests in poetry and literature, nature and Zen Buddhism have also provided a springboard for his creativity. Olsen’s exuberant paintings are often celebrations of Sydney and the harbour, the Mediterranean way of life, food, and sunshine. 3 Summary of Olsen’s painting style Robert Berlindm writing for Art In America maga- zine (April 1993) on the John Olsen Retrospective at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in 1993, describes Olsen’s style in this way: A typical Olsen painting combines an implied aerial view with an ambiguous and seemingly unpremedi- tated figuration. His characteristically quizzical line and irregular squiggles and dots deftly render count- less organisms, large and minute. Their environment is conjured through loosely brushed and stained expanses of colour (on canvas or hardboard) that are keyed to natural light. Even when he is referring to the outback landscape, usually noted for its auster- ity and inhospitality, Olsen’s imagery teems with life. Yet the same lines sometimes read as geological mappings. In Olsen’s work there is no foreground / middle ground / background schema, nor any sign of European landscape’s concern with “human scale”. Instead he employs simultaneously the contrary vantages of naturalist and geographer or, to put it another way, the viewpoints of frog and eagle. Art works featured in the film (in order of appearance) Time Line for the » Coopers Creek, John Olsen, 2013 » Sopa de Pescado, John Olsen, 2013 creation of The » Desert Flowers, John Olsen, 2013 King Sun » Lake Eyre with Dragon Veins, John Olsen, 2013 • 12 March 2013 – eight panels delivered to the » Desert Seeding, John Olsen, 2013 studio at 19 Lemmons Road, Robertson, NSW, » The Wet – The Christ Bird Arrives, John Olsen, the home of Olsen’s friends Anna Hewgill and 2013 Tony Williams. » Morning at the Lily Pond, John Olsen, 2013 • 15 March 2013 – John Olsen begins paint- » Tropical Lily Pond, John Olsen, 2013 ing, assisted by art consultant and friend Ken McGregor, and artist Carlos Barrios. » Lake Hindmarsh, the Wimmera, John Olsen, 1970 • May 2013 – John is admitted to hospital to have » Golden Summer, Clarendon, John Olsen, 1983 pacemaker fitted. » We are all but Toys of the Mind, John Olsen, 1965 • 27 July 2013 – Mural is installed at Collins » Self Portrait, Janus Faced, John Olsen, 2005 Square in Melbourne. (Archibald Prize–winning portrait) • October 2013 – An exhibition of Olsen paint- » Entrance to the Seaport of Desire, John Olsen, 1964 ings is opened by Barry Humphries at Osborne » Sydney Sun, John Olsen, 1965 Samuel Gallery, London » Spanish Encounter, John Olsen, 1960 » Mona Lisa, Leonardo da Vinci, 1503–1506 2014 © ATOM SCREEN EDUCATION » Enso, Daido Bunka (1680-1752) » Talismanic dragon, Yamaoka Tesshu (1836–1888) » Dragon and tiger, Obaku Sokuhi (1616–1671) » Hanging Tree Frog, John Olsen, 1979 » The Leap, John Olsen, 1975 » Salute to Five Bells, John Olsen, 1973 4 Poetry and Music ‘A poem a day keeps the doctor away.’ – John Olsen For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow; For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim; One of Olsen’s most important works is the mural Salute Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches’ wings; to Five Bells completed in 1973 in the concert hall of the Landscape plotted and pieced–fold, fallow, and plough; Sydney Opera House. Its title and theme comes from And áll trádes, their gear and tackle and trim. Kenneth Slessor’s 1937 poem ‘Five Bells’ about a drowning All things counter, original, spare, strange; in Sydney Harbour. Like The King Sun, this is a large work Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?) commissioned for a significant building. Each work reflects With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim; the artist’s response to two powerful natural elements – He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change: water and the sun – each capable of being life-giving and Praise him. destructive. Music In the film John Olsen quotes from some of his favourite poets, including: Most of the music in the film is by 84-year-old Peter Sculthorpe.
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