Arthur Streeton
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Sir Arthur Streeton(8 aprile 1867 – 1 settembre 1943) era un artista australiano, membro della celebre Scuola di Heidelberg di artisti australiani, meglio noto per i suoi paesaggi rurali.
Streeton nacque a Mount Duneed, a sudovest di Geelong, nello stato australiano del Victoria e la sua famiglia si trasferì a Richmond nel 1874. Iniziò i suoi studi presso le National Gallery Schools nel 1882. Streeton fu influenzato dall'Impressionismo francese e dall'opera diTurner. Durante questo periodo iniziò la sua collaborazione con altri artisti come Frederick McCubbin and Tom Roberts — un gruppo che sarebbe divenuto in seguito il nucleo della Scuola di Heidelberg — iniziò inoltre a dipingere "en plein air" scene rurali della campagna attorno a Melbourne, inclusi il campo per artisti diBox Hill e Heidelberg. Nel 1885 Streeton presentò la sua prima esibizione alla Victorian Academy of Art. Trovò impiego come apprendista litografista presso Charles Troedel.
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In 1888 Streeton moved to the Eaglemont estate near Heidelberg which he shared with Roberts, Charles Conder and Walter Withers. He remained at Eaglemont until 1890 during which time he produced many of his most famous landscapes. One of the best known, Golden Summer, Eaglemont shows the differences in the light outdoors between sunshine and shade, with the focus of the picture being the yellow-gold colour of the sunlit field. The figure of the man with some sheep appears subservient to the colour of the fields, compared to the paintings of Conder where the figure was more important. In the early 1890s Streeton made a number of trips to Sydney and painted in the Blue Mountains and along the Hawkesbury River.
In his painting of the Yarra River valley, Still glides the stream and shall forever glide (1890), Streeton shows a winding river in the middle of the picture and a landscape of bright yellowish colour, very typically Australian. The painting was the first of his landscapes which was bought by a large art gallery, with the Art Gallery of New South Wales purchasing it in the same year that it was painted.
In 1897 Streeton sailed for London. He held an exhibition at the Royal Academy in 1900 and became a member of the Chelsea Arts Club in 1903. While Streeton had developed a considerable reputation in Australia, he failed to achieve the same success in England. His trips to London were financed by the sales of his paintings at home in Australia. His time in England reinforced a strong sense of patriotism towards the British Empire and, like many, anticipated the coming war with Germany with some enthusiasm.
Streeton returned to Australia in 1906 and completed some paintings at Mount Macedon in February 1907 before returning to London in October. Streeton painted in Venice in September 1908 and the resulting works were exhibited in Australia in July 1909 as "Arthur Streeton's Venice".
Streeton returned to Australia in April 1914 to conduct exhibitions in Sydney and Melbourne. He returned to England in early 1915 and, along with other members of the Chelsea Arts Club, including Tom Roberts, he joined the Royal Army Medical Corps (British Army) at the age of 48. He worked at the 3rd London General Hospital in Wandsworth and reached the rank of corporal. Streeton was deeply affected by the sights he encountered in the hospital and was discharged in February 1917 as medically unfit.
