James Gleeson Artworks Exhibited


Study, 1983, Studies for 'St Autumn's eyes' by James Gleeson Art Gallery of NSW

Renowned as Australia's foremost surrealist painter and poet, James Gleeson's oeuvre explores the human condition beyond visible reality and the limitations of the senses through powerful enigmas of fleshy biomorphic, mechanical and illusionistic landscape forms.


Synaptic displacement, (1958) by James Gleeson The Collection Art Gallery NSW

Beauty and the beast: the art of James Gleeson, War Memorial Art Gallery, University of Sydney, Sydney, 28 Aug 2002-03 Oct 2002. James Gleeson: drawings for paintings, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 12 Apr 2003-15 Jun 2003. James Gleeson: Beyond the screen of sight, Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, Melbourne, 29 Oct 2004-27 Feb 2005


James Gleeson Surrealism Artists, Surrealism Painting, Australian Painters, Australian Artists

In the 1960s Gleeson was engaged by the P&O Line to give lectures on European art to passengers going to Europe and on Australian art to those coming to Australia. This provided the basis for his book, 'Masterpieces of Australian Art' (1969), and for his three-volume introduction to Australian colonial, impressionist and modern painters (1971).


Artist Inspiration James Gleeson Muddy Colors

James Gleeson 1915 - 2008 Biography Born in 1915, James Gleeson is highly respected in the Australian art world not only as an artist, but also as an author, critic, and lecturer. Gleeson was born in Sydney and bought up by his Aunt and Mother, as he was three when his father died.


James Gleeson Art Gallery of NSW

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James Gleeson: beyond the screen of sight includes 80 paintings and works on paper from public, corporate and private collections throughout Australia. Many of these works have not been seen since their initial exhibition and several have been recently repatriated to Australia.


James Gleeson (19152008) Shapiro Auctioneers

James Gleeson Australia 21 Nov 1915 - 20 Oct 2008 Artist profile Details Date 1951 Media category Painting Materials used oil on canvas Dimensions 127.5 x 96.8 cm stretcher; 148.3 x 117.5 x 4.2 cm frame Signature & date Signed l.r. corner, red oil "Gleeson".


The darkening stage James GLEESON NGV in 2020 Artist inspiration, Painting illustration

James Gleeson, born in 1915, is Australia's best known Surrealist, its longest practitioner and leading advocate. Indeed, he says, 'I was born a Surrealist'.. he was not able to travel to Europe until 1948 and see firsthand the great works of Western art. In the summer of 1948, Gleeson travelled to Italy for the first time.


James Timothy Gleeson. 19152008 Australia List All Works

Home Art Collection Title The arrival of implacable gifts 1985 Artist James Gleeson Australia 21 Nov 1915 - 20 Oct 2008 Artist profile Details Date 1985 Media category Painting Materials used oil on canvas Dimensions 198.0 x 245.0 cm stretcher; 204.0 x 251.7 x 3.4 cm frame Signature & date


Untitled (720) by James Gleeson (19152008, Australia) Art Reproductions James Gleeson

Auction Date:Wednesday, March 29, 2023. James Gleeson. Infested Dune 1984. EST A$20 000 - A$25 000. Hammer Price + BP A$20000. Lot 130.


James Gleeson Sky Gardens 1987 Artwork, Sky garden, Painting

Painted in the final year of the Second World War, The citadel expresses James Gleeson's revulsion at the inhumanity and horror of war. Gleeson merges the human body with landscape in a nightmarish vision of writhing entrails and orifices rising like a cliff against a high horizon.. Born in Sydney in 1915, Gleeson studied art between 1934.


James Gleeson Artworks Exhibited

James Gleeson 05 November - 26 November, 2016 James Gleeson 13 November - 06 December, 2014 James Gleeson: Uncertain Times 04 September - 27 September, 2008 James Gleeson 03 October - 21 October, 2006 View all exhibitions Works by the Artist Winter Dreams James Gleeson 1991 watercolour on paper, 27.00 x 37.00 Price: $3,500 View More Moontrap


James Gleeson ( 1915 2008 ) is Australia's foremost surrealist artist. He is also a poet

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"Conjuration 4" by James Gleeson Oil Paintings and Acrylics Art

Gleeson attended the East Sydney Technical College (1934-36), exhibiting early Surrealist works at the Contemporary Art Society in Melbourne in 1938. In 1941 he delivered his treatise, The Necessity for Surrealism , advocating 'the real anarchy of thought,' and maintaining that this was a means to liberate humanity from the constraints of.


James Gleeson Rounded with a sleep, 2007 Australian artists, Art, Artist

James Gleeson Australian, 1915-2008 Following Follow 233 Follower s Known as the Father of Australian Surrealism, artist, poet, and critic James Gleeson examines human nature in Surrealist landscapes. His interest in classical figures and mythology inspired by artists like William Blake and El Greco, along with his. Read more


James Gleeson Perhapslestrois Leo Plaw Fine Art

James Gleeson was one of Australia's greatest artists, and the country's foremost surrealist painter. Unlike his contemporaries, who merely dabbled in surrealism, Gleeson remained true to its.