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Lädt ... A brilliant touch : Adam Forster's wildflower paintingsvon Christobel Mattingley
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Adam Forster was a skilled, self-taught botanical artist whose goal was to paint one thousand species of Australian wildflowers. To this end, on weekends, he travelled all over the Sydney region and country New South Wales to sketch and collect plant specimens. The National Library of Australia has over 900 of Forster's superb watercolours, 90 of which are presented here as full-colour plates. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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But, on the side he was a significant botanical painter ....in fact he did most ...if not all of the illustrations for the book Wild Flowers of Australia published in 1938 for the first time. At the time of his death (in 1928) Forster had painted 928 paintings of Australian wildflowers. They are lovely works and nicely reproduced in this book.....though it's a mini book and I would have liked to see a larger format. In a few cases there are enlargements of the individual works so one can see the brushwork and drawing more readily. One advantage (for the artist) of the small size is that the paintings look even more wizardly at the reduced scale....and any defects are minimised.
There are a nice selection of plants and flowers....most of them from around the Sydney region..and I recognise most of them. He has also painted a few of insects including all the cicadas that i remember from my youth: Double drummers, Greengrocers, Yellow Mondays. ......and lovely work. I know my friends with whom I meet for botanical painting sessions will be entranced by his work. Maybe, it's a bit more free-flowing and less detailed that some of theirs but the local subject matter will be familiar to all...and I know some of our group have painted the same species so will be really interested in how Adam Forster painted them.
No hesitation in awarding this book five stars. ( )